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Hello All I was just looking into how you patent a invention, lots of websites saying they will do all the work for you for a fee of course, thousands often. Then people say you can do it yourself for hundreds of pounds, but I haven't found a good manual so to speak of to follow. I was just...

I was wondering if anyone else has any tips of keeping apples fresh and stop them going brown once cut. I usually just put the cut apples in water before I scrut them. But I have a lot of apples to inspect this year (due to pests) before I scrut them and was wondering is a citric acid solution...

Hello All We were making beer for the first time so tried one of those can kits. Made is all up, put it in 25L bucket with sugar and waited. But no bubbling occured through the air lock. Added some more yeast and put it on a heat plate to see if it will start, but still nothing. We did notice...

Hello All I am seeking to get better clariety with my wines and cider and was wondering if any else is using a HF Vinbrite Mk3 Filter kit? I was just wondering if they are any good? I was using coffee filter papers, but that took forever and eventually tore apart. Regards Jon

Hello All I will be making wine soon and was wondering does anyone else leave the grapes on the vine? Before you press them. I am just asking as it took me a few days to strip all the grapes off their vines before I pressed it. Plus I have read in various places that the vines add or don't...

Many wine recipes say remove the stalks. Now does that mean ALL stalks? Or can you leave some on? I just spent hours taking the grapes of the stalks and i still have three barrels to go. I am removing the thick stalks. But is it ok to leave the little ones on the grapes? Also does anyone...

When I was getting my apples scrutting to make this year's cider. I was talking to a "old boy" about my previous batches of cider I have made. And I was saying one sort of failed because it was "tarty flavour". He mentioned that I could add mullet (I think he said mullet, I am just calling it...

Hello All I was in the chemist sometime ago buying supplies. I noticed that Young's offer a "Youngs Dessert/High Alcohol Yeast". It got me thinking. I was wondering what is the maximum strength drink anyone has produced with it? Thanks

Hello All Turns out my cider I made last year is a bit tarty. I was wondering if their was anything I can do to make it less tarty. I dad suggested adding some strawberry syrup we have left over from jam making to make it a bit more sweet and drinkable. Any suggestions would be much...

I got some troublesome blackberry wine. I have posted before about. But I gave it a smell today, smells like vinegar. I don't hold much hope for this wine to actually succeed, due to many problems along the way, bit annoyed about it, took me ages to pick the blackberries in my lunch break...

I made some blackberry wine. It started around 1120, Left it a coupe of days got to 1090 and has remained there since. I have killed the yeast and moved the brew into a clean demijohn and added fresh yeast. I also gave it a stir, because that was recommended on a previous post. It's been sat on...

I have made two gallons of wine in seperate demi-johns. One is ready for bottling, and the other has failed so I need to put in a fresh demi-john and add fresh yeast. But in order to complete the two jobs, I thought to kill the yeast, first to stop wine bottles exploding and secondly I didn't...

I made three batches of cider up over the weekend. I added the yeast and sugar Sunday night. On Wednesday morning one was showing some hints of fermenting. On Tuesday night I opened them up to see if they had a fermenting head on, they didn't apart from one. One looked like it had mould but I...

I got a homebrew kit for christmas and my first brew tastes really yeasty. Is their anything I can add to it to take the yeast taste away? I was trying to make cider by the way