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Just a follow up on how my kit has worked out. After bottling and leaving in the kitchen to start conditioning for two weeks. All the bottles are now stood on the shelf in the garage. Quite cool but frost proof. I have now tried a bottle last night and one this afternoon. My thoughts are that...

Hi Tanzanite. Sorry to be a pain but I've just re-read your advice and am wondering about the conditioning sugar whilst bottling. My kit comes with a sachet of sugar which the instructions say to use at the end of fermentation. I'm wondering if you would use this and then add a further...

Thank you for your reply. I'm looking forward to trying this when it's complete. I'm in Sheffield and following the reviews I spotted that the home brew Shop "Love Brewing" stock these kits.so I visited this morning. A really well equipped shop and I was dead lucky and got parked right outside...

Hello Tanzanite. I've been over to Chesterfield this morning and bought the ciderworks apple cider kit. I have some experience brewing beer kits but this is my first cider kit. I have just set it going In the fermenting vessel and have followed the instructions to the letter(hopefully) My...

Right I'll leave it without filtering. I must admit years ago I never filtered any wine it's only recently when I fell for the sales talk that filtering the wine gives it a "polished look" I think the phrase used was. I didn't think of that about removing some of the more subtle flavours. I'll...

Thank you for your comments. I have got a wine filter and did intend filtering my merlot. However I think your idea to age the wine for a month or so in demijohns is a great idea. I'm going to do myself. I have 7 demijohns so I'm going to use 3 with approx one gallon in each then bottle the...

Hello Chippy. I certainly used the stabiliser sachet I presume that this has some type of preservatives. My question really is to get some idea how long a kit wine can be saved before it spoils. Although if the 30 bottle one is as good a the previous 6 bottle kits perhaps I may not be...

Hello I'm Brian. I have done about Four 6 bottle red wine kits. The idea was to sort our favourite to then do a thirty bottle kit. Well we have enjoyed them all so much we are unable to really come down hard on one or the other. So we have got a thirty bottle beverdale Merlot almost ready...

Hello Rodwha. Thank you for taking the trouble to reply to my post. As I said in the beginning the kit was a gift from a friend who also had it given to him. I've never seen the items in any uk home brew store. Which was why I started the thread. I'm unsure how it actually came to be in the uk...

Hello all. I posted previously about a Mr Beer Kit I had been given it's a kit that only holds up to 2 gallons. I really like the simplicity of the kit and have done one of the supplied. Tins 16 pints of Czech Pilsner. Which is now conditioning. Following a suggestion from this thread I'm...

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Thank you for posting that. The kit shown is like the one I've been given. The kit includes a DVD I haven't looked at it yet but suspect it could be the same one you have posted. I do unfortunately have a problem with DVDs because I recently and suddenly became deaf. So unless a DVD or...

Thank you for your reply Matt. I've got a Wherry kit ready to start which has the two cans. I didn't realise that each can contains the same ingredients. The numbers on the cans in my kit vary slightly but I suppose that must be batch numbers. I'm going to have a go with the supplied kits...

Hello all. A friend called yesterday and brought me a complete starter set for beer/lager He had it given to him but can't be bothered to try it. It's made by a company called "MR.BEER" And is called "premium Gold Edition beer kit. (Complete home brewing system) Inside is a keg...

Well my wine kit is now fermented out. It took a few days to clear after adding the finings but it's ok now. I've got it sat at the moment in four glass demijohns. With the remainder in a plastic milk bottle in the fridge from which I'm forcing tasters onto anyone who comes to visit. My own...

Following on from your results I've decided to do my kit as per instructions. I'm looking forwards to trying it . For the price I've paid plus the cost of the sugar and taking on board your comments I'm sure it will be a success. I've also got no shortage of friends who will be happy to help...

Thank you for your reply. I am away on holiday next week so don't intend starting till I get back so I will hang on for your reply after I'm back. I'm sure on its own it will make a passably cheap plonk ideal like you say for barbecues. I should have bought two really for the price then added...

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Hi I'm interested in any comments on your thread. I've also bought one of these from tesco direct on special offer. Before I start it I was wondering if anyone could recommend adding anything to enhance the kit. I've done a few beer kits and come to realise that adding spray malt etc...

Hello thanks to Slid and Mtirkiesh for your comments. I'm going to wait for cooler weather to brew the European kit. I've done the Australian kit before and was very pleased with it. However I hadn't thought to keep the yeast sachets in the fridge of any kits I was saving for doing later. Since...