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The price has gone up to £49 since I ordered last night - and shipping is £6.30. So big thanks #chrisb8 for the steer 👍

And shipped! That's quick 👍😁

Ordered! 😁

Bottle tree mod using pipe attachment. Eliminates the drips on the worktop from Chemsan rinse to tree.

OK, stocks of our autumn hedgerow cider (which turned out well) are running down so I'm trying TC. 21 litres Lidl AJ (£11.62) 1 litre tea (5 tea bags) 1 kg gran sugar dissolved in 2 litres water 2 tsp Pectolase 3 tsp Young's yeast nutrient 24 litres in FV with OG 1.060 Mango Jack's cider yeast...

We moved to our 'new' home a while back and found 8 filthy DJs in a shed. Cleaned them with limescale remover mixed with sodium percarb and swished baking beads around to scrape off the stuck-on cack. I have resorted to using a jetwasher on the inside of bottles that friends donate but fail to...

So it's been racked again and it's now cleared and ready for pasteurisation and bottling.

So yesterday I filtered the Moromi through a fine nylon mesh bag to produce about 7 litres of milky liquid which didn't smell very alcoholic. Put in DJs and added wine finings. Today the rice is starting to fall out of suspension leaving a clear yellowish liquid above. Do I have Sake' or gack...

Thanks for the tips. My Admiral's Reserve took almost 3 days to start then roared for 3 days and stopped - stuck at 1.020. I hydrated a sachet of Wilco ale yeast, stirred it in and increased the temp. Nothing happenned, no happy little bubbles. Annoyed, I switched it off. But I checked the SG...

I left the Koji rice production a bit long so it became stressed (green tinge) but it seems to be working OK. As I'm using Wyeast Sake' yeast with gazillions of cells there's no need wait for the yeast starter to build-up. So I've now done the stepped koji, steamed rice and water additions...

I'm using Arborio rice as it's cheap at Lidl. Steamed 800g and seeded it with Koji mould grains this morning. It's now in the airing cupboard - various recipes say keep it at 30C, mix occasionally and in four days I should have enzyme rich rice. Step one of many...

Tsurumiso Dried Rice Koji 500g Is this what we need? But I've also found this Sake - Koji Kin Home Brewing Kit

Making Sake - Brew Your Own - just seen this. It looks a bit daunting, especially the temperature control. But AG brewing looked daunting too...

I've been given a book 'Brewing Saki' with a challenge to produce some. Not that I like the stuff... but I'm prepared to give it a go. Did you make any progress?

She's a granddog, loves coming to visit the old folk...

Is there a prize for the most inventive packaging? 😁

First time entrant - can I have entry address details please.

Banana boxes (or bread trays) sounds good and better than the garage floor with apples spread out on cardboard for three weeks!

An excellent study. Many thanks! I'm new to cider making but pressed 50 litres this year scratting freebies from hedgerow trees. Result from first batch (15 litres) OG 1.050 fermented out to 1.000 with pH 3.7. Are you measuring SG and pH? Is there any difference in 'product' between approaches?

A few spiders = good to catch flying insects. A million spiders = bad as spider poo rains down so I have to cover everything. I've thought of using an insect 'bomb' but SWMBO is a tree-hugger and says they've got squatters' rights 😁