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Thanks Tony...., for your sharing your knowledge. I want to make some TC with a 4 or 5% vol only and carbonated which is not proving to be easy. I use cider yeast only for addition of sweetness or medium sweetness in my preference. So really I'm after a medium yeast with a lower alcohol...

Good evening brewers. the first recipe I used a few years ago included the use of malic acid. This I believe was used to create more of a tart taste that apples have. During the Malolactic fermentation it creates carbon dioxide, thus thinking it would carbonate in the bottles. When I used this...

Hi brewers just to keep you in the picture. My latest recipe, 1 gallon of water boiled to extract flavour from 2 x 20 heads of Elder flower. I gather the flowers in spring and freeze in packet of 20 Heads of flower. 19 litres of Aldi Apple Juice the total was about 24 litres. Added 4 spoons of...

Thanks for reply cheapbrew Maybe this is the answer, Adding water. Aldi juice is quite tasty so a bit of water wont harm. I was thinking of adding more elder flower to cover the taste loss with the water added. So this week end I will calculate how much to use. Thanks for that you have my mind...

Hi Tau, Let me apologise for the late reply. I am working in Reading a fair distance from Middlesbrough where I live, Traveled down yesterday straight to work this morning and now at my digs. I would consider my cider quite strong having 4 pints and feel I have had 6 or 7 pints, nearly twice as...

Thanks folks for all your replies and taking interest in my crazy plan. I now know that this idea of conditioning with yeast is never going to be trust worthy idea. Thinking about a less resilient yeast. This is also rises doubts when thinking about it. Leaving me with problem of calculating...

Thanks folks for your replies. i have been making my T.C for a while now. I ferment the apple juice until it stops fermenting. Then add 60grams of sugar before I bottle. This ferments again in the bottle just enough to carbonate. I have no control of the alcohol level. I was just wondering if I...

Sorry for they delay. I have been watching Ant & Dec with my girls, thank you very much for the reply. So basically the yeast will continue working until it reaches its ultimate alcohol level. Which in my case will be too strong and too fizzy. My idea is a none goer using yeast for...

Hello brewers, I have a small problem in my Turbo Cider making. I brew Aldi apple juice and add 20 heads /sprigs of elder flower for flavour to my 5 gallon brew which I forage each year and freeze. This makes a very nice tasting cider especially after leaving a couple of month or more. The...

Hi folks, sorry for my late response been busy celebrating new year. HAPPY NEW YEAR TO all ! The story so far. I believe it is fermenting now but not at any satisfying rate. There is froth visible. But only patches of foam floating around nothing like total covering and escaping from the...

Hi lads thanks for quick replies on this one. But this one hasn't started at all it is completely still not a glimmer of foam starting. I will hold off from doing anything drastic for the time being. I normally use Wilko's Spray malts and they have proven to be fine in the paste. I must be a bit...

Hi Folks. I have also decided to make a Coopers IPA and added a Coopers beer enhancer 2, believing that this held the sugars for fermentation. I also added 300g of sugar for good measure. I got it to 24C and added the yeast packet.24 hours later no sign of fermentation??. I am wondering why...

Hi all, Thank you all for your interest in my Elder and bramble project. My brew is bubbling once every one and a half minutes, I added another 1lb of sugar, after about two hours ago, there isn't any change in the air look. I think the yeast is about spent. I never took the original...

Thanks Grand Gris, I have it brewing now all in together. I decided I had enough berries to make a 5gallon batch all together. And the recipe I found suited that. I added a few changes to the recipe like adding 2 Wilko red grape juice concentrate 220g. And added the sugar in stages up to...

Hi my foraging freinds, I decided to use water in my first elder and black wine, I found this recipe on the web. http://www.farminmypocket.co.uk/home-brewing/recipes-home-brewing/elderberry-wine-recipe Being inpatient I have defrosted my 21lb of fruit tonight with boling water and should be...

Hi Ciderdelic, I find myself in the same boat as you were in April. I have be collecting Blackberries (Brambles up here) and Elderberries. I have some 25lb of fruit. Wondering whether to add apple juice from Aldi rather than water to retain more of a fruity taste. Also cant decide whether to...

Hello, Sorry for being sloppy using capitals. I meant to say Bentonite which is indeed is a form of wine fining. Thanks

HELLO PLUM BREWERS, I CAN FINALLY DETECT SMALL ACTIVITIES GOING ON AFTER OVER A WEEK OF FERMENTATION. THINGS ARE RISEING TO THE TOP OF THE BARREL. IT NOW SMELLS OF HOMEBREW RATHER THAN SWEET PLUM SMELL. :-) WITH EARLY CAMPDEN USE, TIME & PATIENCE IS THE ESSENCE THEN. HELLO TOJO82 I HAVNT THE...

Hello Tricker/Simon12, Sorry not at the same time, I added the yeast the next day after 24Hours as per recipe. I will hold off chucking mine then. I will wait a week or so. There is hope yet then. Thanks Ticker you saved my brew, I hope.:nah: Good luck folks. Next year I will stick to plum...

Hello Triker, I have the same problem. Did yours start in the end?. I added Campden tablets at the same time as the yeast etc. as per recipe I was a bit dubious about that. That is always added at the end normally. anyway there is nothing happening at all even days after adding sugar. I am now...