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I have my first ever batches of TC and ginger beer on the go, and am approaching bottling. My intention was to use Splenda tablets as sweetener, probably an amount during a bulk primer and maybe some extra in some bottled. I tried dissolving a tablet in a bottle of water and that seems to work...

Is that 1/2 teaspoon spoon sugar per 500ml bottle of TC for carbonation purposes?

I'm in the same boat, with a first ever batch of TC and one of ginger beer. The ginger beer is certainly gingery - had a taste last night when racking. Dry though! I'm intending to use tablets and was wondering how much to use. I like my cider medium-dry. I'd rather not over-do it. I'm assuming...

I have my first turbo cider, and ginger beer on the go at the moment. The TC was 4 L juice plus a couple of blended bramleys, plus strong tea. Pitching with Young's cider yeast was 3 days ago and I have a great big head that looks like it's got a lot of apply bits in it. The ginger beer was with...

It looks like it might be all the recipes! E.g. cherry vimto wine has 1 tablespoon each of yeast, nutrient, citric acid and pectolase!

Thanks for that. My ginger beer recipe was in fact based on that one in the link, but scaled down. I see you use yeast nutrient for the cider as well. I don't suppose it does any harm adding it, so I will do so. Do you really use 1 table spoon in a 5 L brew though? That ginger beer recipe uses...

I've brewed a couple of kit ales and want to give TC a go. Since it's going to be a first experiment I thought I'd do 5 L TC and 5 L ginger beer at the same time, each in a 5 L water bottle. I have a couple of airlocks so I'm good to go. I'm after a bit of advice. First, my intended recipes, or...

You can tell I'm not very practically minded! I attach my bottling stick to the tap of a bottling bucket. If I attach a length of tubing in between the two I'll be able to reach the bottom of a 2L bottle with no trouble!

How do you bottle into the larger bottles? Syphon tube into the bottom and a syphon clip? I don't think my little bottler would reach the bottom of a 2L one!

Ah, if only. I have enough problem finding somewhere to store the 40 bottles I've just made! I have also run out of empties now as well. I do have a pressure barrel, but her indoors isn't too taken with the idea of having that hanging around for however long it would take to drink :( (and it...

So, I've brewed my second ever brew. This was a kit of Munton's Gold Docklands Porter with Safale-04 . It all went well enough I think, it had stuck so it needed a rousing or two and I bunged in some yeast nutrient. FG got down to 1.014 so I think it had pretty much finished. It all went into...

Well, I gave the water a decent aeration the night before, pre-Campden treatment. Most of the water was then dropped into the kit from work surface height, which was generating a bit of foam so there was some extra aeration there. Maybe I could've given it a bit of a whiz with the electric...

Could do, it'll just a bit tricky to get to a shop selling tubing before the weekend!

Bit of a long one this! Just after some advice.... I've got my second every brew on. It's a Munton's Gold Docklands Porter (a 2 can kit). Yeast pitched last Saturday morning (so 9 days ago). Not sure of the OG as I couldn't read it properly as I didn't have enough in my trial jar and couldn't...

I'm going to be bottling my second ever brew this weekend (hopefully!). My syphon tubing has patches of scale in, no doubt from evaporation of the very hard water we have hereabouts after washing it the last time. I'm worried that this might reduce the efficiency of sanitising the tubing. Any...

So you add some yeast specifically for bottling? Last time, and I would intend to do the same this time, I just transferred the fermented product into a bottling bucket and trusted to yeast still in suspension to deal with the conditioning. To be honest, the beer looked pretty clear at bottling...

I'm talking about rehydrating prior to pitching into wort for fermentation - sorry a bit of thread drift. The Safale-04 instructions recommend rehydating in 10 volumes of water or wort until rehydrated (15-30mins) and then maintain stirring for another 30mins. Alternatively pitch direct into...

Have you got a stirrer, or do you just swirl it around in something/keep mixing it with something? Cheers

I'll just go with cane sugar I think, easier all round! Not to just decide whether to just pitch the Safale-04 direct (like I did on my first brew), or rehydrate first. Think I'll pitch it direct as I won't actually be able to maintain stirring for rehydration first, as the instructions suggest...

I intend to batch prime, the kit instructions use 1/2 teaspoon per bottle, working out at approx 80g for 20l. Cheers for the website link, I must admit to being a bit surprised by the increase in sugar mass required if using DME that it suggests. With parameters for cane sugar that result in...