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Hello everyone! :hat: Thought I'd drop by with a few photos and comments from my latest brew. I'm not an expert by any stretch of the imagination but the intention is to turn this into a basic how-to guide for BIAB in a way that can be followed by someone with some kit brewing experience. Also...

Apologies for two threads in an hour! I only just noticed this when opening the FV to take a hydrometer reading: It doesn't smell particularly bad. I took a sample and tasted it and it seems OK, if very yeasty. I've paid good money for worse in pubs. There are white bits floating on the...

Hi there, I noticed the other day that the pressure barrels in wilkos are on offer so I'm thinking about using it to help carbonate and dispense my beer from rather than bottling with some priming sugar. I'm a bit confused about exactly what to do though. I gather that I'll need to buy the CO2...

I decided to go to the 'dark side' after finding a 30L boiler at a good price, but I've got a couple of questions. Hopefully everything is fine, but I'd just like to check in case something has gone wrong! The recipe I'm using is Eskimo Bitter (#2 on the recipe list on this website) 1) The wort...

So I recent found I had a £20 Amazon voucher left over from christmas (yay!) and I'm thinking of buying an alcotec vodka kit, specifically this one: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Homebrew-Winema ... ds=alcotec I'm wondering what I can expect from it, I realise it's probably not going to be taste...

Hi there, I made a small (half gallon) experimental batch of mead about a month ago. Currently it's been sitting on a shelf doing it's thing but a taste test showed that it's still extremely yeasty, doesn't taste of honey but it was very strong. No hydrometer reading, I really need to get into...

To kick off the new year (and help me recover from the shock of finding my first attempt at beer didn't go well) I went and made up a batch of a tipple my housemates loved last time around. Only this time it isn't mostly water and baking yeast! 3L of sainsburys cranberry juice drink (£2.50 for...

Around the middle of December I put on a batch of geordie bitter from a can that I know is at least 25 years old. I tried some for the first time today and it's not great. Smells very sweet, almost like treacle and is slightly carbonated, but tastes sour. I'm pretty sure everything was properly...

I put a couple of 1g batches on last weekend. One was a strawberry ribena wine and the other some strange apple/pear/pomegranate wine/cider thing. Despite being made at the same time there's some strange differences in the foam on the top. The apple/pear one went down after a couple of days like...

Just thought I'd briefly introduce myself :hat: I've been attempting to brew cider* for nearly a year now, though only started taking it more seriously in the last month or so...and I thought it would be good to have somewhere to ask a few questions from time to time. I'm currently based in...