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Thanks guys :thumb:

Where is the cheapest place to buy beer bottles from for my homebrew beer? The websites i have been looking at seem very pricey, with 75 bottles coming to over £50. Is this a reasonable price?

I obtained a deep plastic barrel with a smooth sides and placed a little grain in the bottom. The rats dive in after the grain and get trapped as they are unable to scrabble up the steep smooth sides. They are then easily dispatched with a swift shovel shot. Top method involving no poison, guns...

Can the wow recipe be attempted with red grape juice instead of white to obtain something in the vein of a red WOW or is his a laughable idea? :? :lol:

Cheers for the instructions gents. :cheers: I shall certainly look into the concentrate Oldbloke, the folks that run the Hippyfood shop round here are most helpful, I'm sure they will assist me in the acquisition of some.

Well the vast majority of the sediment and pulp had dropped to the bottom of the DJ today so i decided to rack the liquid off of this in order to allow topping up fairly early in the process. I had lost around half a liter after this racking, with a hefty layer of almost a couple of inches at...

How much apple concentrate do you use to a gallon oldbloke? Is the apple concentrate itself expensive? :?:

After a trip down the tesco's drinks isle a couple of days ago I came across a beverage described as "Exotic Juice". On closer inspection it was a mixture of apple, orange, pineapple, banana, passion fruit and mango juices. I decided to try a gallon of it and so added an amount of Youngs Cider...

The yahoo assessment at least seems a great deal more positive than the Guardian, although the emphasis is once again on the price and not the superior quality of home brewed products

I am currently fermenting a batch of cider using Weston's Old Rosie yeast, with the aim of eventually achieving malolactic fermentation. However, the time has come for racking (assuming i need to do this? :hmm: ) and i was wondering if i should actively endeavor to transfer a quantity of the...

Yeast nutrient could also help in your pursuit for dryness. It can be bought at most brewing shops and will enable the yeast to function more effectively, so increasing their capacity to break down sugar.

Roughly how much unfermentable sugar per litre should be used in standard, fermented dry TC made from supermarket apple juice?

Cheers for the advice :grin: and on doing further research i've discovered that around 12 degrees Celsius is recommended

I currently store/mature my ciders in the loft, which due to my living in Scotland and the thickness of the insulation above the ceiling, never climbs above about 5 degrees Celsius. Is there any hope of any of the ciders achieving malolactic fermentation at this temperature or will the low...

I have racked my cider several times now and the time has come for bottling. However, I would like the cider to be fizzy and it seems that not a trace of yeast is left in the brew (to the naked eye). If I add sugar to the bottles, will there still be secondary fermentation within them enough...

Writing my university application to study Brewing and Distilling as a course at Herriot Watt University in Edinburgh next year. Any suggestions of stuff I can put in the personal statement that will impress the selection comitee? ;)

My home pressed apples fermented at a hell of a speed, especially with champagne yeast! :D

Thanks very much :cheers: Is it a good idea to let the vessel sit in the the cold for a while to "put the yeast to sleep" so that it sinks?

Could some kind expert please explain the process of racking a cider or point me to a thread which does so? Its my first time attempting it and so would like to make sure I have a clear understanding before I attempt it

I thought I could get away without racking or allowing my first cider kit to settle, since I got excited at the idea of home brew cider and just wanted things to get done quick. Fair to say, my bowels are paying the price for ingesting so much of what a friend described "liquid bread" at a...