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darkening the wort is not a problem as it's a bitter, however in the past when I boiled tinned wort to caramelise the sugars a bit the wort did not appear to darken, I was going to add a hop tea bag prior to bottling it so that is not an issue, have you tried this method before and what...

I have used isomerised hop oil many years ago to give my home brew kits that extra bitterness ,it worked but not that great as I remember, if you want an oil to give it aroma there are hop aroma oils about ,however I have never tried them, I suspect you will not get the hop flavour with the oil...

I ran a search to see what preservatives are in Ribena, and the two main culprits are (Potassium Sorbate, Sodium Bisulphite), 1,Sodium Bisulphite, This sulphur gas permeates the liquid it was added to and then eventually dissipates into the air over the coarse of several hours. The sulphur...

found this on this site https://www.thehomebrewforum.co.uk/threads/anti-foam.67611/

Had a Greene King IPA ashock1

Here's a bit of reading on it https://draymans.com/brewing-with-antifoam-is-it-good-or-bad/

If you have any antifoam in your brewing kit you could try that, I have read it can be used to help keep the initial vigorous fermentation from foaming over the vessel.

I have just syphoned my 1st full grain brew into a plastic pressure barrel and I was impressed how clear it was, this I put down to the Irish moss I added at the last 15 minutes of the boil.What I have done today is take a Burton bridge bitter kit and boiled it for 13 minutes with Irish moss...

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Ok , I used to make wine back in the day from whole fruit or root vegetable, I was just wondering does the packet fruit juices have enough substance to stand alone or do we need to use grape juice as a base to make a decent wine

Has anyone made the WOW without the Grape juice base, if so, what results did you get Taste? Body? feel? flavour? strength.? feedback from guest drinkers/tasters/lab rats that sampled your wine & recipes please thank you

not this one it only cost £1.00 full of water, it's 5ltr to the cap

thanks chippy. I am using the plastic 5ltr water bottle that is 5 ltrs at the cap, I thought I was hoping for too much on filling it near the full 5ltr, I have a spare bottle of water so I will tip half a litre away and get a guesstimate of what 4.5ltr looks like in the bottles & then mark the...

Oh dear, not good news at all. lets hope it don't burst

just started 1.5 ltr of lidl apple juice and 1 litre of sainsburys red grape juice and 1ltr of red grape juice 1ltr of apple and 1ltr of pineapple. both had 750grams of sugar my question is once the initial vigorous fermentation has been completed how high do you top up the demijohns with...

Oh to hell with it, I'm like a dog with two dicks, I couldn't wait, so I got a voile curtain and made a bag, and started mashing at 64c. had to alter the hops a bit due to supply . I have gone for mashing with 27 litres of water to allow for the grain soaking some water and evaporation during...

the mash tun made from an old asda cool box (that never kept anything cold) I took the polystyrene foam liner out from the inside of the box and dilled holes in the box and lid and filled with expanding foam, (I first bound the box and lid tight with cord to stop the foam tearing it apart) the...

Well day the draws ever nearer for my first full grain brew, the ingredients have just arrived & I have just completed a heat loss test on my home made mash tun, II put a kettle full of boiling water in it and had a loss of 18 degrees c over one hour, it probably needs a jacket and a pre warm...

the best pic I can get of it doing a rolling boil. 210 f or 98c , thank you for your help. it came to me when I finally understood what a choccy block was :) why can't I have just taken the goldy brown wire and bypassed the yellow cut out on the element ? oh well it's boiling now,thank you EDIT...

done this I left the greeny blue capacitor block in situ as it didn't appear to affect anything. hope that's ok