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I know there is a few recipes floating about here - but I was hoping for some specialist advice on what exactly I should do with this amount of bananas? (donated to me by the local Isle of Man banana mafia) I took this photo last week and they are only starting to go properly black right now...

Mine had a lot of residue at the bottom of the bottle - I bottled almost straight from SV (racked into a PB for bottling). If I can keep the residue at the bottom of the bottle it's perfectly clear.

I'm using 3 litres of juice and 800g of sugar in each DJ, both the Pomegranate and Pineapple had an SG of about 1120. I didn't take note of the exact sugar levels in the cartons but I've tried to avoid sweeteners, so probably the standard 10-15g of sugar per 100ml. I see you only use 2 litres...

Got three others just finished now, Pomegranate, Pineapple and Mango (with more or less same grape juice base + additives). The pomegranate tastes very sweet, it finished at 1003 and wasn't for moving, so at 16% Abv I'm archiving that one as a dessert wine / liquor. The pineapple finished very...

I bottled on 29/12/2013 and a month or so later I was ready to bin mine - now it's very very drinkable, after initially being extremely under carbed it's even developed head retention and the missus seems to like it. Every other brew I've done has been drinkable within a few weeks, but this one...

My first 1 RGJ / 2 AJ wow is about 5 weeks old and has been in the bottle about 2 weeks. Some of the early scary smells have now completely gone and it's matured into tasting very pleasant - so pleasant the missus is sitting happily drinking it now, and she's been highly sceptical over my...

Didn't take any photos as nothing exciting was happening but it's all been bottled today with 170g of priming sugar (I upped priming a bit as I had a taste from the FV and it was completely-utterly-dead-flat, unlike the Evil Dog which held much more of its carbonation). Despite cold crashing...

If it was me I'd try raising the temperature to 20c+ to get it going again - most of your fermentation is done already so hopefully there would be few off-tastes left to be generated. I just had a trial bottle of the European Lager tonight which I bottled two weeks ago - smells horrible (as...

Started this one on February 3rd and it's still in the FV, albeit been in the garage cold crashing for 9 days as I've been on holiday. Will bottle tomorrow, have a little trial sip and get some photos up.

I just let it soak for about a week or so and it came out very hoppy, and is the tastiest beer I've done yet.

Give it at least a day to come alive again - I've pitched 1.040 beers which took more than a day to start showing any fermentation. I think WOWs only start up so fast because the SG is so high.

Just an update - this is my favourite brew so far. I'm struggling to leave the bottles alone over the other 4 brews I have sitting about at the same age or older. It's a premium kit so I only ordered one, but I'm scared into now thinking that I have to order another one quick to create an...

First Wherry has been in the PB now for a 4 days conditioning after kicking it off on 22/01/2014, had a little sneak preview taste tonight at room temperature and I can tell already that this is going to be excellent (the taste, body and head are superb already). I'm delighted that I bulk...

Just to confirm you are using kits? All my brews taste very different, but I've been using wildly different kits.

I'd say you are almost there - but the thing that everyone will scream at you is patience. I don't think it will go horribly wrong if you decide to finish it off now (worst case it needs a bit of extra conditioning and has a big head), but there will be absolutely no cost if you leave it another...

I think it's a hydrometer thing - I've never had anything above 1.006 (or maybe my tap water is alcoholic!)

No, mine really was as ugly and dark as the photo suggested, when I went to give it a stir it had a lighter colour of liquid just below the top layer (which as I said concerned me) - it seems to be slowly bubbling away again now and I had a quick peak and it looks much healthier today, a bit...

I've brewed 240 pints since I started at Christmas, I've 40 brewing now and I'm likely to stick on another 80 at the weekend. I didn't really know what I was doing with storage, basically using anything I can get my hands on - but I've now come to the conclusion that for my habits bottles would...

The airlock was moving very slowly again this morning, so it's doing something now (not sure if it was the stir, the hops, or the yeast nutrient - or maybe all). I know 1.012 is technically close to FG but I've yet to have a beer finish above 1.006 (think it's a slightly dodgey hydrometer) and...