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I started a gorse wine in a fermenting bucket a few days ago after ordering some additional demijohns. It was meant to be 24 hour delivery so I figured that, at worse, they'd turn up by today. Unfortunately they haven't shown up and the wine is ready to be strained and transferred to a...

Your shaping technique may be at fault. Mine isn't great and a boule is the only thing I can turn out with any consistency. Whatever shape your going for the aim is to get a nice tight membrane on the loaf to help is keep it's shape. There are some decent videos on youtube on shaping...

It's nice to see such an enthusiastic baking community on here. I'm glad I'm not the only one who sees the correlation between brewing and baking. I got into baking thanks to a Jamie Oliver cookbook I bought to help me get away from the traditional student diet when I was at uni. My first...

I kept my first lot of gorse in the fridge for a couple of days and it was fine. Still bright yellow with a pleasant smell. Boiling the gorse produced a brilliant yellow liquid and the smell once I'd added the oranges and lemons was fantastic. I've high hopes for this one.

I was out picking gorse flowers for a couple of hours yesterday (still need more!) and plan on starting a brew with them today. I've also got plans for a dandelion wine that the fields behind my house will provide most of the raw materials for. Unfortunately, I'm yet to locate any elder trees...

Cheers. The recipe called to leave the fruit in the fermenting bucket for 24 hours (ended up being 48 hours due to the water going off on Monday). Am I to take it that I'd be okay to discard the fruit at this point to make life a little easier? The sugar went in no problem. I had enough...

Before I start I know the obvious answer is to get a larger fermenting vessel. However... I followed a recipe for apple and pear wine that used 2.7kg of apples/pears and 4.5l water to boil them in. Just looking at the volume of fruit I knew that it'd never fit in the fermenting bucket but I...

Morning all. Hope we are all enjoying the bank holiday and the glorious sunshine we've been blessed with today. I'm pretty much a newbie with all this homebrew stuff. A couple of years ago I got some basic kit so I could have a bash at a beer kit (an IPA from a brand I can't remember). It...