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That looks like a nasty dose, after getting food poisoning on my holidays a few weeks ago I wouldn't recommend the experience! As others have said looks like too much air in there.

Well I just did on one of the demijohns, when the malic hit the juice, talk about Mount Vesuvius, lesson learned!! I topped it up once it had settled down and added some pectolase which was thankfully uneventful. Will leave the other one well enough alone after the right mess that made.

In my excitement to add this i forgot to add malic acid and pectolase. The bubblers are still bubbling slowly (brew is around two weeks in now) , is it too late to add? I only realised as the brew is normally starting to clear by now and its not.

I just started a brew today using some Aldi apple juice and about 300ml Aldi cranberry juice per demijohn as I find it gives the brew a bit of extra flavour I like.. I picked up a bottle of this stuff the other day in Lidl and was thinking of adding once the initial fermentation dies down and...

That was my thinking too, I saw someone on Amazon suggesting to do the same thing on another one of these and thought that was a good idea. I had a glass carboy (which I sold) but the weight of it was something else. So I figured the clock was ticking until it dropped and smashed to be honest...

Also, just thought of it, would I get away with not racking before bottling due to the conical shape or bad/lazy idea!?

I'd like to get a steel fermenter for my wine brews and have been looking at this one - Brew Monk Stainless Steel Conical Fermenter - Get Er Brewed The only thing offputting about it (apart from the price compared to plastic!) is the sales pitch: So are they saying expect to loose 5-7L per...

For my first couple of brews of turbo cider i added some demerara sugar into the bottles before bottling and they fizzed up nicely after a few weeks. The next few brews I used white sugar as Tesco was out of demerara when i was getting supplies and they barely fizzed at all, even after a month...

I decided to try back sweetening one of the remaining bottles of this stuff to see how much sweetness to add before bottling next time as I think I'd prefer slightly sweeter. I had added a level teaspoon of sugar to each bottle before capping and as a result they are pretty bubbly by now (and...

Watching with high interest, have a load of rhubarb in the freezer and left a lot untouched in the garden earlier this year without picking, now drinking..motivational for next season if its any good!

Oh dear, the ones i picked last time were a bit early. The tree only fruits properly every two years and loads were dropping so i said sod it and picked the lot. Sounds like I might have to give yearly updates! Do you use a cherry destoner or something else?, its an utter curse i find getting...

Good tip Guzzle thanks, I was hoping to polish some off sooner than a year or two! Patience is a virtue i suppose.

I've a few bags of damsons in the freezer that herself is complaining takes up too much space so I was thinking of making them into a wine. I had intended to make jam with them when current supplies run out but thats an awful lot of faffing about with the stones so wine seems altogether more...

Could just be still fermenting slowly, have you tasted it at all? My first batch looked like that and i just left it until it cleared a bit and it was fine.

I with you on this point, next time I wont bother with one with the sugar added. Thinking about it i assume the platinum premium was for the sugar not any better flavor as i assumed when buying, one born every minute i suppose.

It was a 5 litre container yes. Bubbling away happily now after the stirring and 3kg of sugar. Hopefully with the opening and stirring etc i havent turned into vineger, time will tell. I didnt remeasure the SG after stirring as i'd dumped in demerara sugar and that was sitting at the bottom so...

I gave it a good stir but hydro reading still low, i half wonder if the syrup was mixed by mistake with another box -the plastic bottle it was in had no label and the seller had their own wrapping around it, presumably for delivery purposes. I've dumped in another 2.5 kg sugar, lets see what...

The box says sugar included so I guess the concentrate has it included, the instructions just say add the yeast and water to 23 liters. I didnt do any mixing as I figured adding the concentrate to the bucket followed by the water would have given it a pretty good mixing as is. The yeast was...

I was emboldended by my recent success with turbo cider which was just brilliant (thanks for the advice here) , I've another 5 demi johns on the go right now , happy Christmas to me. Anyhow, I bought a "Solomon Grundy Platinum Sauvignon Blanc" white wine kit and mixed it all up last weekend...

Bottled up both today, final reading from the hydrometer was 0.995 on the cloudy one and forgot to the second one as i was in full stream bottling and sugaring mode by then and flustered. Funny enough the 100% juice from concentrate tastes better than the "pure" cloudy apple juice one which is...