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Wipe off the stuff on the outside but what is inside is ok. I take off the airlock and clean and replace it but you don't have to.

It has stopped again. Edit: having checked again 12 hours later either it has started again since then, or, more probably, the screw top and bung worked loose and after I unscrewed the top to look inside, when I put it back on and tightened everything up now it was tight enough to see bubbles...

Thanks for the idea, think I will use this next year.

Great news! After having left it with the top off and the neck covered with a teatowel one of the FVs had just started to ferment. There were a few flecks of white-green mould on the liquid surface which I scooped out. I topped it up with some yeast and nutrient and it is fermenting moderately...

I gathered 5oz of sloes and added them, the contents of a 12floz (350ml) bottle of basic gin and 1.5oz of caster sugar to an 18floz (500ml) Wilkos swingcap bottle. I gave it a good shake and will turn it the other way up every day for the next two weeks then every Mondy until Christmas. Let's...

I get all of that kind of stuff from Wilkos and everyone has always been satisfied with it.

Yes that's what I meant, I have a hydrometer and will say what happens on this thread. Thank you

I found this thread with the same situation from 2010 and will execute these instructions www.thehomebrewforum.co.uk/showthread.php?t=8775 NOTE: the link doesn't work but it works if you copy and paste it into your browser address box

I have got a hydrometer, I recorded the SG as 38 when I pressed the juice on the 28th of Sept. I have now got 36 for one FV and 40 for the other. The temperature in their new place seems to be a fairly constant 63f / 17c. Could it be that I have added too much sodium metabisulphite? And now I...

I have made lots of Wilko cider and pear cider kits and they have always gone down well, not sure if that's what you're looking for.

Thank you! My wording was ambiguous there, there were no bubbles in the juice or airlocks. There still aren't nor is there any fizzing. I've put the tubs in a warmer place, 63f / 17c close to the middle of the night.

I fill them all then cap them all, it is more efficient and I get a little frisson of excitement from the danger that I could knock them all over at once.

Hello, it is 5 gallon plastic tubs, sterilised and rinsed, with screw on caps with grommets and in the grommets rubber bungs with airlocks, there are no bubbles in the airlocks or liquid. Temperature is at the moment 57f / 14c, obviously it will go down at night. I don't have the facilities to...

I made 2 gallons of cider without additives and it was ok like a 6 out of 10. The fermentation was slow and the taste was a bit unusual although not unpleasant. I have decided that from now on I will do the great majority of my cider with metabisulphite and special yeast but a little bit without...

I have got 12 gallons of juice from the apples in our garden which I am hoping to make into cider. I use a small apple scratter and a 6.5 gallon press. I did a bit with a 1 gallon press about the size of yours Rich last year but it is very tedious for large quantities of fruit. Now the scratting...

Could you dissolve it with pectase? We had our first frost last night here in North Yorkshire, I am poised to get the sloe gin going.

Hello, I have got 2 tubs of apple juice which I collected a few days ago, I have added sodium metabisulphite in the correct proportion to one and a 1/3rd dose to the other, waited 24 hours, added yeast in the correct proportion and nothing happened, I waited another 36 hours and added yeast and...

I found this question addressed in another thread, sorry for not looking first.

Hello, I have soaked and rinsed it with boiling soapy water but on the inside of the shoulder there is still a small amount of deposit which is impossible to remove. Can I still use it? Thanks!