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I hung a 5 litre plastic bottle over the tap last night to stop the carpet getting any more soaked. When I got back from work this evening, there was maybe 100ml max in the bottle but around half a gallon more missing from the barrel (😡). Looks like it's leaking from the washer as well as the...

Unfortunately, my house is tiny. It's a 300+ year old farm bothy. This also means freezing cold and already an inch thick with mould and slime. I'll try cleaning the carpet butost likely I'll rip it up and skip it. The advantage of such a small house is an off it will be big enough to redo...

Gave the pear cider its first taste last night after a month or so maturing. Rather nice if I don't say so myself. Not quite carbonated enough but a nice deep flavour, almost scrumpy-like. Very nice. I got the new caps to use the capsules with so I let the pressure out of the barrel and...

I buy my propane and butane from taygas. I actually buy in the region of 100 W size bottles of CO2 for work from BOC every month and currently working on a distribution system for liquid CO2 as well but I'd be instantly sacked if I were caught refilling my S30 bottle! There is a company...

Oh, that's good to know. I'm actually up by drimmie. Where does one go about getting CO2 nowadays since Forfar closed? There was a shop opened very briefly in Dundee after Forfar closed but it only lasted a couple of months. I've got an empty S30 bottle and was convinced I had a pub bottle...

I didn't do the calculations to find out the potential ABV after diluting it down but it should bring it a lot closer to 12-13%. If it were a more robust wine I'd have left it but gorse is usually quite a delicately flavoured wine so I wouldn't want to overpower it with ethanol flavour. That...

Pretty pricey to a man of limited means such as myself (not helped by an 800% rise in my car insurance after I scuffed the bumper on my boss's 3 hour old range rover, consequential rises in my other car insurance, 300% rise in electricity, the cost of heating oil going from 40ppl to £1.40ppl...

There used to be a homebrew shop fairly local to me in Forfar. It was still 25 miles away but had everything you could need and you always got good conversation with the owner and always spent a fortune. This was my only source of CO2 and when the shop closed down I basically stopped...

I've just put it into the demijohn from the bucket. It's fermenting a bit slow.... Probably the extra sugar but bubbling away quite the thing still. It had a bit too much extra sugar I think, can't remember the SG off the top of my head but wasn't the level of 17%abv potential. I topped up...

I've just put on a gallon of gorse using the CJJ Berry recipe with the addition of an extra lemon (small) minus the zest and a touch more sugar. It tastes really good as it is... Can't wait for Christmas now to taste the finished wine!

As an easy reintroduction into wine making, I made a 23litre blueberry wine kit. The box wasn't branded as such but had garffen.co.uk under the barcode. I actually thought I stopped it a little early as it was a little too sweet tasting. I can't remember offhand the hydrometer reading but it...

Gorse flower wine is definitely worth making. It's got a lovely delicate flavour with a hint of coconut. Depending on how you jiggery-pokery the ingredients, quite citrusy. Picking the flowers has always left my hands a bloodied mess though haha. I'm just waiting on tannin and yeast nutrient...

Wow, thanks for all the ideas guys. I hadn't thought of combining the two ideas. I'm very jealous of that set up @Hazelwood Brewery ! The bottle of gas I've got is food grade because it came from the student union at work (I work at a university) so no worries there. No idea how much is in...

Ahhh. Of course I forgot about the oxidation... Duh. I don't drink the beer fast enough to drink it before it went sour. Idea one then and turn an adaptor on the lathe. I have got a regulator so no worries there assuming the CO2 bottle has the same outlet as my argon bottle (for welding)...

Hi guys. One of the main reasons I stopped making beer was the closure of my local homebrew shop quite some years ago. I mainly made kit beers and brewed straight into the pressure barrel. I never bottled for two reasons, I'm not a fan of cloudy beer and I could never get enough bottles to...

Thanks for the welcome everyone. @An Ankoù I did think about using tea, I've used it before with fair to middling results on stronger flavoured wines but the gorse is such a delicately flavoured and coloured wine that I think tea would affect the flavour and colour too much, perhaps not...

Hi everyone. New member from Perthshire here, although not new to home-brewing. For quite a few years I had a conveyor belt of elderflower "house white" brewing... 5 gallons fermenting for a week, while 5 gallons "aged" for the week and another 5 gallons was drunk in the week. This was using...