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Morning, I started a batch of elderflower white wine sometime around june last year. I figured I'd try making this batch into a sparkling wine. I didn't want sediment so I racked it and just before bottling added kwik clear finings with 80 g sugar per DJ. Bottled into 1 L plastic tonic...

Afternoon all, Quick outline of my mishap: EF champagne fermented for 1 month in primary. Then all in one day, I racked to secondary, added Kwik Clear finings, added priming sugar and bottled in PET. I didn't use any CT or Potassium sorbate. In my impatience, the idea was that the yeast...

Morning all, Made an AG beer the other day using 5kg Warminster Maris otter, 400g crystal and 30g black malt, ended up OG 1.058. Whilst still very young (5 days in primary), the resulting beer tastes a lot like digestive biscuits. It's not unpleasant, but I'm trying to understand why it has...

Morning all, Thought I'd write up my brewday from the weekend, first AG, done as a BIAB in a 38 L pot on my electric/ceramic hob. The recipe is my own as I couldn't find a recipe I wanted to make, seemed to make sense mathematically, the colour of the wort/young beer seems about right and the...

Morning all, I'm looking for some suggested recipes for a biab from the ingredients I have in stock. I have: Maris otter ebc 4 Crystal malt ebc 150 Chocolate malt ebc 1060 Black malt ebc 1280 Challenger AA% 8.2 Ekg AA% 5.7 Fuggles AA% 4.1 Looking for something along the lines of old speckled...

Rice raisin recipes include ample quantities of sugar, raisins, fruit etc to provide fermentables which makes me wonder what the purpose of the rice is? I assume there aren't sufficient amylases present in packaged white rice to contribute anything fermentable so is it for texture? Flavour...

Morning folks, I'm moving to Southampton soon and I was wondering if there are any decent HBS around? I do wines atm but will be expanding into beers in a few months time when everything has settled down. Cheers D

Left to right: tropical mixed fruit; white grape and elderflower; red grape, pomegranate and raspberry. Bubbling away in the corner is a 4 lb spiced and zesty mead that has been going for 3 weeks quite happily. Mixed fruit was 1 L jucee 100% fruit punch (apple, pineapple, strawberry) and 2 L...

Hi all, Questions about 2 types of fining agent: 1. - I have a white grape and elderflower supermarket juice brew, finished fermenting a week or so ago. Has been racked once and stabilised. I added an unused pack of finings from a Wilko red wine kit, then realised I didn't actually know what...

Evening all. First, am I correct in assuming that the specific gravity of pure water should be 1.000 (i.e. that the hydrometer is calibrated using pure water as a reference)? If so, am I also correct in assuming that my hydrometer reading 1.004 rather than 1.000 in tap water at 20.02 C...

Morning ladies and gents, I figured I should introduce myself as I have a bit of a habit of lurking on forums in silence. I'm a molecular/microbiologist from the UK, brewed a bit with my old man when I was a kid and seem to have taken the hobby up again recently, much to the disdain of my wife...