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I'm on my 2nd batch of turbo now, and I'm well chufffed with the results. I used 4.5L(1 Gal) lidl 100% apple juice from concentrate, think it was about 74p for a 1.5L carton? Stuck that in a DJ with 200g of sugar and a sachet of Young's cider yeast, that gave a SG of 1.062 and after 6 days a FG...

As a complete noob I may be wrong, but my recent Lager brew seemed to mature better indoors, and then just prior to consumption I just chucked a few bottle in the fridge, clearing didn't sem to be a problem in the warm either, infact chilling just created a chill haze making the brew appear...

Advice noted, will go with 1/2 a spoon then, thanks guys.

Just checked my Turbo's SG, down to 1000 in 4 days, god this stuff works fast. Its been in the DJ for 4 days now, fermentation started about 12 hrs in to the brew, bubbles have gone from 1 every second to about 1 every 11 seconds using my head counter. I'll check it again tommorow and if its...

The TCs bubbling away very nicely and we now have a lovely scrumpy whiff coming from the airing cupboard, Mrs Krustys already 1st in line for sampling that when it's ready. She had a sniff yesterday and was very impressed, I hope it tastes as good. :pray:

Well a bit late with an update on my 1st brew but, it turns out that having brought the botles in from the cold and giving them a good shake up has worked a treat, all the bottles have been drunk, Only had enough to bottle 4, and the improvement was 10 fold, lots of lovely carbonation and a very...

I might have made a mistake then :oops: , I misread an earlier post and got caught up in the excitement of another brew, oh well, got enough juice to do another batch if it turns out undrinkable, this time with no sugar! :roll:

My 1st turbo cider is now in progress :party: , 4.5L of Lidl 100% apple juice, 200g of sugar and Youngs cider yeast, starting SG 1062. Lidl juice was 74p for 1.5L carton so I bought 8, if it's good we can have another go! :twisted:

Cheers Moley :thumb: , need to pop round my Uncle's house now and pick up a DJ, and grab some cider yeast from the brew shop. :D

noob questions on TC: if I let TC ferment until SG stops dropping, can I then bottle with priming sugar to carbonate? If I did this I asume that the brew would be very dry and would need sweetening b4 consumtion? and last but not least is there anything to be added to the brew other than the...

My PB isn't fitted with gas injection, so no it's not like that. it's got a normal cap with a small plastic tube looking thing sticking out the top, guess this is a very basic pressure relief valve, it looks like the one in this linked picture: http://www.home-brew-online.co.uk/home- ... nt-cap.jpg

Sorry nearly forgot :oops: , thanks for your speedy reply 31bb3. :thumb:

Just drawn off 4 pints into clean 2 pint plastic milk bottles, and cracked the top to realease a bit of pressure, hopefully it will be okay now, tasted some and while it's okay it's not as good as the bottled stuff was, low on carbontation, suprisingly! guess some leakage has taken place...

Made a noob mistake by putting a lager kit in a plastic barrel, just put it out in the garage to cool it down bit prior to drinking, and just realised the barrels gone egg shaped with pressure the bottom has pushed out round and gone all weeble. What can I do to stop the inevitable explosion and...

Just cracked open a bottle of the pilsner, just to see if any carbonation has taken place, it's still pretty cloudy because it's only been out in the garage for 3 days. Theres barely a hint of a fizz on opening the bottle, but the flavours are there, so I've brought the barrel and the few...

Yes, sadly the keg is a plastic one, but I'm slowly getting a good collection of brown bottles together. So the next lager will go into bottles which will give me the pressure barrel for a bitter or the like. I will try a bottle in a few days for research and evaluation practices, and if it's a...

Excuse my lack of experience this is my 1st brew. After priming and capping a few bottles and putting the rest of my lager kit into a primed pressure barrel, I followed the destructions and placed them in a warm place for 4 days, they are now in the garage to clear. It seems from what other...