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If it's a 25 litre barrel you're gonna need a whole lot of them Co2 cartridges. I would add a little sugar and if needed yeast and prime carb in the barrel. Use the Co2 for dispensing

Hey guys just wondering are these easy keg bungs reusable? It's a two part system on these. Rubber bung with a red plastic insert.

So I've just got started brewing all grain and I honestly didn't have much interest in brewing beers from kits. I had 2 spare Cooper's beer kits in storage that I somehow got as free gifts in the past. So I thought, what an amazing opportunity to experiment. So I ended up doing this Cooper's...

I have 20 of the 5l easy kegs similar to the ones you get beer in from the supermarket. Has anyone tried adding a Co2 valve to the top of these easy kegs 5lt? https://justinview.com.au/2011/03/diy-mini-5l-keg-co2-system/ Presta valves can be bought super cheap on eBay. Fill the kegs using a...

Has anyone tried adding a Co2 valve to the top of these easy kegs 5lt? https://justinview.com.au/2011/03/diy-mini-5l-keg-co2-system/ Presta valves can be bought super cheap on eBay. Fill the kegs using a Co2 bike tyre inflator? Test the pressure in the kegs by hooking a cheap bike pump up to...

Hi all - I've been home-brewing wine for many of years. I now have over 1000 bottles maturing (more than I'll probably ever be able to drink). So then I figured I'd try sous vide for a while. And yes you guessed it, I now have.more liqueurs than I could reasonably drink anytime soon. I've now...

Sorry for the late reply here but I have the final update ready now. Since the last update on this thread I've been bulk resting the wine for a while in 5lt plastic bottles. The wine is now finished and bottled. Using the grape skin extract is definitely my new go to way at making red wine...

Yes it's the 410g ones! Give it a try and you won't be disappointed. You can ferment directly on the fruit mash if you want but fermentation will take much longer and clearing will again take much longer. I make a concentrate out of the peaches first because then it ferments out really fast...

Most definitely! Though I think you would be surprised. If you tasted a batch made using my recipe with 8 litres of grape juice with 200ml glycerine then you tasted the same batch with 23 litres of grape juice without glycerine. I honestly doubt you would taste the difference. Especially in the...

Thanks for your input. Though as I said on my last post, this recipe is completely adaptable to what you want to make. It will work perfectly with 8 litres of grape juice and it will work even better with 23 litres. You can use literally any juice and tea combination that you want. This is...

Haha the cellar is a new addition. Me and the fiance just bought our first house and I made sure a cellar was on the list. Transporting all my home brew to the new house taken longer than getting all our belongings in!

That's exactly why I jump on any bulk offers for cheap glass wine bottles. Buying them new isn't an option. Unfortunately plastic bottles aren't an option for me. I brew a heck of a lot of wine so I can age a good proportion of it for 2-5 years. Just doesn't work in plastic. Great if you plan...

I hate echo falls and I'm not a white drinker. I happened to get over 300 of the echo falls bottles from someone for just £50. With over 200 bottles of home brew wine aging in my cellar I'd say I'm a bigger fan of home brew.

So I'm going to be making a 5 gallon batch of mead which I will be aging with oak chips. Most of my wine primary fermentations are completed within a week or less using 1 TSP of youngs super wine yeast compound per gallon. This can easily hit 14% in less than a week fermenting dry. I hear mead...

Fermentation finished on 18/03, exactly 7 days after they started. Malbec FG 0.995. AUS FG 0.994 No surprise with EC 1118 being the yeast of choice in the wine kits. I left them another week before adding the stabiliser as I wanted to allow lots of time for the oak chips to infuse. Added the...

Had both of these kits in the garage for a few months and decided to brew them up. These kits come with a huge amount of grape concentrate and lots of oak chips of different grades. SG of both kits 1.090 I would normally go into a lot more details but I don't think much else needs to be...

Update Sorry for the delay guys, this one has more than finished fermenting now I've just been really busy with work. Fermentation completed and FG 0.995. Colour looks beautiful, it's definitely a red and I've not even added the last 12.5g of grape skin extract yet! Stabiliser added today. 5...

So I corked up a fresh batch of wine yesterday. I'm using standard screw top bottles which the corks seem to go into without issue. After bottling I noticed that some of the corks felt fairly soft. The soft ones, if I put them upside down inside a glass all night by morning the corks are...

Definitely the cherry Tom but overall I just prefer cherries over blueberries. Both wines have the same characteristics. Touch of blueberry or cherry as an after taste. Definitely a great result and honestly I don't see why you couldn't do this with any of the cheap red kits. Just worked...

Both kits are now bottled and I added 200ml of glycerine to each fermenter before bottling. These are honestly some great wines. It completely taken me by surprise as I didn't expect much from this experiment. But woah, both kits easily compare to a £8-£10 bottle from the supermarket and they...