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  1. Steve-h71

    Corny keg alternative idea....

    Hi All, Ok, So I cant afford Corny kegs and really I would want two or three. So I was thinking, I have access to plenty of food grade 25L drums, the opaque white ones. So if I was to wrap these with glass fibre mat and polyester resin to thicken them up and make them a whole lot stronger...
  2. Steve-h71

    De-gassing lager.....

    anyone???????????????????????????????????????????????????/
  3. Steve-h71

    De-gassing lager.....

    Hi All, I have made my first Lager which is getting close to finishing fermentation, what I need to know is do I de-gas the lager before lagering and bottling ?? I am also not sure if I need a D rest, the lager tastes really good even now while fermenting, I am really happy with it so far. if...
  4. Steve-h71

    Hops Supplier

    The malt miller in swindon does them, it says £4.50 on their swebite, it is £1.08 for parcels up to 100g and £3.60 for over 100g. Depends if the hops come under the 100g bracket....
  5. Steve-h71

    Mold on homebrew

    I am no expeet but I believe you need to add campden tablets to "sanitize" the fruit, again as I understand it, you mix the fruit with the water and whatever else your putting in and add the campden tablet and leave it for 24 hours, then you can add the yeast I might be wrong but this is what I...
  6. Steve-h71

    Apple flavouring in cider?

    Blimey that was lucky, at least you know now though. I use a 1L bottle as I make up 25L at a time, I have just made 2 lotsso I have 50 litres clearing at the moment...
  7. Steve-h71

    Alternative yeast for lager ??

    Hi All, I have been messing around making the raspberryade/raspberry wine lately, I have used the lalvin ec-1118, this seems to be a really good yeast strain, it has a very low flocculation and low foam etc, it seems to leave no taste to the brews I have made so far with it, the lees are nice...
  8. Steve-h71

    Apple flavouring in cider?

    Hi CS, You need to boil the squash for at least 15 minutes asI understand it, I giveit 20 mins. The reason is toboil off the preservativesin the squash, as far as I understand it the preservatives would kill off the yeast and so you wouldnt be able to carbonate the cider. One thing I have found...
  9. Steve-h71

    Selling up!

    Not brilliantto have,but what better a reason for drinking cider, although not as much to brew..... more time for drinking me thinks.
  10. Steve-h71

    Dusting on bottom of bottles

    I found the same sediment in my bottles of raspberry wine, I just syphoned it into a clean bottle, rinsed that bottle and syphoned the next bottle into that and so on until all the bottles are done. I do now filter my wines at bottling as it puts a nice shine on the wine, but I also bulk...
  11. Steve-h71

    Apple flavouring in cider?

    I start off with 22 litres of apple juice, I add a teaspoon of citric acid, and one of pectolase, I make a strong tea (5 bags) and NO sugar, all I have read says that sugar takes away any flavour. My yeast pot started life as a youngs super wine yeast, but as it went down I have mixed in a...
  12. Steve-h71

    Discoloured carbon wash?

    Get to tesco and buy some lowicz malina (raspberry syrup), it is amazing, I mix my "20% vodka" with abit of lemonade, it is my favorite drink on a warm afternoon.
  13. Steve-h71

    Apple flavouring in cider?

    I like really fizzy Cider so I add 3 litres of apple juice for carbing, I also boil a litre of double concentrate apple squash for 20 mins and use a litre of the apple juice to cool it before adding, I use the no added sugar squash so it adds a bit of sweetnes rather than fermenting. I am now...
  14. Steve-h71

    Bottling beers

    I hated the sediment when I first started bottling Cider. I have now made a filter system that works great for me. I have a filter that I got from toolstation for filtering heating oil (£4.50), I use this inline between two FVs, I stuff the filter full of cotton wool, I have also got a few tyre...
  15. Steve-h71

    Home sweet home(brew)

    Hi and welcome. I find its apple juice that gives me the hangover so I guess a bit more in the morning couldnt hurt, OH you mean unfermented apple juice, is that allowed.....
  16. Steve-h71

    How many gallons of Wine, Cider + Misc in 2014?

    So far... 10 Gal Turbo Cider 5 Gal Raspberry wine (16% still raspberry that I mix with lemonade)
  17. Steve-h71

    Flavouring

    Try adding the Lowicz malina (raspberry syrup) in the world foods section in Tesco it is fantastic, I have been brewing it but it would probably work better in the alcotec spirit base.
  18. Steve-h71

    Quality of malt?

    Sorry I missed the fact it was DME, DOH ! ! !
  19. Steve-h71

    Quality of malt?

    I have only bought one lot of malted barley and wheat. I bought mine from The Malt Miller in Swindon. they mill the malt to order so it is probably the freshest you can buy, I would wonder how long the makt has been sat on the shelf, obviously check the dates etc. The malt miller is around...
  20. Steve-h71

    Pina Colada ideas.

    Hi All, I have been thinking about summer, that might be as far as summer ever goes in this country... I do like the old pina colada for hot sunny days, when I went to the dominican republic they served it there as a slush puppy type drink, it was amazing. I am thinking of making an alcohol...
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