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Cheers Moley, Temperature's 13°c at the moment there in a spare room that doesn't have any heating on. Think I might try the Bentonite with the white that appears worse than the others.

Hello, I made 3 x 15Ltr WOW variations through July & August last year and have problems with them clearing. To each I added 3tsp of pectolose at the start, after fermentation racked and degassed added 6ml of kwik clear and kept at under 12°c (my usual procedure and never had a problem...

Thanks Moley I'll reduce the quantity of SodMet.

Hi I use the 15ltr BetterBottles for making wine, after cleaning and sterilising I store them with a solution of sodium metabisulfite (1/2 tsp to a litre of water) give them a shake every few days and there ready to use. I was just wondering whether anyone knows if over a period of time this...

Hi Bought a quantity of Ocean Spray cranberry juice when there was a deal on, have made cranberry, cranberry/apple and cranberry/pomegranate with rgj and wgj. I still have a fair amount of cranberry juice left just wondered whether anybody knows of any other good combinations, thought maybe...

Hi Tesco have Sun Grown red grape juice on offer 59p which is cheaper than there own brand at 74p also on offer. Noticed after buying 3 cartons it says "pure" grape juice rather than "pure pressed" don't know if this will be any good for making a WOW or not, just wondering whether anybody had...

Hi, I've read on a few wine making sites that all wines should be started not under airlock but in a primary fermenting bin this allows the yeast to take in oxygen which they need to reproduce, then after about 4 days transferred to a secondary vessel with an airlock to start the process of...

cheers Moley time to get the heat on

Hi Going to make a supermarket juice drink, I generally use Youngs super yeast and yeast nutrient the instructions state use 1 teaspoon of each per gallon. I’m making 3 galls/15 ltrs but I’m fairly sure you don’t multiply these by 3 as you do with the other ingredients, would it...

Thanks again

Hi Moley Just another thought, when you ferment in a 15 litre pet do you rack into another of the same or 3 x 5 litre pets.

Cheers Moley Hydrometer reading 989 and a nice taste.

Hi Started a 15 ltr Wurzel 7 weeks ago but not to sure if it's finished fermenting, although I'm only getting a bubble through the airlock about every 25 mins there's still small bubbles rising from the bottom and forming a small foam head. Although I'm in no hurry to rack and stabilise and as...

Hi I've recently made a few 1 gallon batches of rice and raisin wine and have been impressed with the results. The initial fermentation is done in a 10 litre bucket (the rice and raisins take up about 2 litres) and after 14 days strained into a dj. I would like to up the quantity I'm making...

cheers Moley will follow your advise and see how it goes

Hi Made a supermarket juice drink 3ltr pure apple, 1.5ltr blue & blackberry, 4ltr red grape juice and water to 4gallons. It fermented out ok so I racked it to another 5 gallon fermenting bin and a 2nd racking to 4 x 5ltr pet's added ct's, pot sorb & kwik clear finings. After 10 days it' still...

Thanks aneray I'll give that a try cheers

Hello, Started a banana wine on 12th July it finished fermenting at the end of last week I checked the gravity which was 995. The dj is only about 3/4 full because the recipe says transfer to another dj and add chopped raisins after a couple of months (that presumably takes up the rest of the...

Cheers Moley 12.5% sounds fine to me.

Hi, Gonna start this juice drink at the weekend. 3L pure apple juice (286g sugar) 1.5L Cracker blueberry & blackberry not from concentrate (214g sugar) 4L red grape juice (650g sugar) 4Kg sugar 2 heaped tsp yeast 3 tsp yeast nutrient 4 tsp pectolose 2 tsp tannin 4 tsp glycerine water to 4...