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I am a hardened red wine drinker - Laithwaites was one of my main suppliers good solid full bodied reds are my favourite. I too have struggled to find a good red home made. I purchased the Beaverdale 1 gallon Shiraz Kit to test out recently . Am at the degassing stage with it, the alcohol...

I added a few tablespoons of it to the demijohn I racked it into for a few days.

Did you need to add any sweetener to your ginger beer ?. I had a go at this but it came out very dry, so I added a little splenda and it was fine. Super fizzzy stuff, I guess thats the champagne yeast.

Hi there, very interested to find out how your merlot turns out, I have not tried a red wine kit as yet, keep us posted, cheers Jack

My first try batch of TC was a corker. I used a satchet of youngs cider yeast, a teaspoon full of yeast nutrient and a level teaspoon of citric acid to start. After initial fermentation and gravity below 1000 I found it very very dry ( I'm a noob at this). Following some selective advice from...

Cheers for the reply chaps

After bottling the Turbo Cider, will the yeast at the bottom of the demijohn be sufficient to handle another load of applejuice (i.e rince and repeat ?) cheers

Well I added a level teaspoon of Youngs GP wine yeast and its now going like the clappers - not sure if will have any impact on the taste, mixing the cider yeast with the wine yeast. :wha:

Hi there, first post for me on this very informative form. I have started a batch of wurzels and Atomic lemon, following the instructions to the letter. I placed both Demijohns in the airing cupboard for a bit of extra oomph ( 22-25 deg). The Wurzels has gone into overdrive but not a bubble...