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Hi I have read several places to work out the alcohol percentage you do a calculation on the gravity before and after, is there a way to work it out with only the finished wine, cider or ale? Regards Tom.

Hi I have a Solomon Grundy medium wine that has finally finished fermenting, the kit says agitate until all the CO2 has gone and that should take 2 hours, I realise none of this is an exact science, but after agitating every 20 minutes over 2 hours there is still a lot of gas coming off, should...

Ignorant beginner here, so please forgive the daft questions, what is the campden for, is it because the mix contains mains tap water or are there other reasons for using it?

I'm a beginner in Devon who's possibly over done it to start with, I've done a sucessful youngs Yorkshire bitter, as well as starting a youngs definitive blacberry wine and elderflower wine with a Solomon Grundy medium sweet and medium dry white wine, finally a john bull cider three of these are...

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Hi I am very new at homebrew and I suspect I may have trashed my second batch, I have made a batch of ale which all went according to plan, now I have tried a youngs elderflower wine kit. Unfortunately I dropped the packet of yeast and lost half the contents. The other half is in the container...