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Hi guys, planning on a mango beer, but not sure i've not got much of a clue about how to get the fruit flavour. I know there's a few wine makers on here who are used to playing with fruit so thought you'd be able to offer some advice guys. The basic plan i've got so far is 50:50 wheat...

I placed my first order on the net tuesday eve, but was too late to phone rob and pay, so I phoned up wednesday morning to pay by card over the phone. I thought it should be fine, i'm not planning on using what I ordered until sunday so plenty of time for it to get here. Bugger me if there...

Planning on doing AG5+6 this weekend. A wheat beer that i'm hoping wont be too far off schneider weiss and a hoppy pale ale with lots of fuggles and cascade. Might do overnight mash friday night or might wait until saturday morning, either way, they're getting brewed this weekend, need to build...

Hi Big Yin, from a fellow diver and home brewer's point of view i'm guessing that you're using a 12l and a 3l steel for your coils. If i'm right i'll be feel like a right smart ****, but also if you're using something of a different size please let me know, i'd be very interested to know the...

I'll second that Moley. Get down your local and if they sell magners or bulmers give em a couple of big bags n ask em to save them for you. If your local does a fair amount of trade you could have as many bottles as you need in next to no time. I get mine from my local n just drop the odd drink...

Hi, don't know how the gorse is gonna come through in the beer, i've only used them in a gorse and elderflower wine before. They smell really coconutty when raw and some of this came through in the wine i did, will have to wait and see what happens with the beer, I do love a good experiment.

Hi everyone, right I've just put this on. I ended up with this recipe :- 2x carrier bags of nettle tops 1x carrier bag of gorse flowers 1kg medium dme 1kg light dme 500g bke I boiled the nettles for about an hour then, 10 minutes before the end of the boil chucked in the gorse flowers. Turned...

Ok then, so I've been thinking about doing a nettle and gorse flavoured beer along the sort of lines of :- about 2/3s medium dme to 1/3 bke, then boiling the nettles for about 45 minutes as the bittering and then chucking in the gorse flowers for another 15 mins. The only thing i'm pondering is...

Hi all, I've got some tinned fruit, one of rhubarb in syrup and one of peach halves in grape juice. I'm thinking about doing something winey with them, adding grape juice, tannin etc, but wondering what the general consensus would be about firstly using these fruits to make a wine, and secondly...

I've been given one of these bottles (on the floor) unfortunately no cap, could it be of any use? Anyone know if there are bungs you can get to fit em? Any advice very welcome thanks, think its 16.5 litres capacity. Am hoping it could be useful for something, as I might be able to get my...

Hi everyone, I've just started doing beer brewing (been trying a few wines for a couple of years) put my first ever Woodfordes Wherry kit on yesterday (hoping a kit would get me started ok n hooked on this brewin lark). Just got back from work now, n went in to check its started ok. Its got a...