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As others have said, you can't easily determine the AA of your hops (£1000s pounds worth of testing equipment), so it's a bit trial and error. I've got some First Gold that I tend to use for bittering. I also tried some from seeds this year that a well-meaning friend gave. About 50 seeds...

Also remember that you're going to be pressing apples you'll need a way to chop them up small to maximize the amount of juice you extract. You can get cheap scratters on eBay too 😉 And you'll always want a bigger press than the one you bought. And more apples... (Can't believe I sold a...

Silicone hose every time, it's more "floppy" and tends to stay where it's put. Shame it's X times more expensive!

I have some of the blue ones in the heavy duty design (20x500 ml Brewery Beer Bottle Plastic Stacking Crate). Perfect for Fuller's bottles, but a little tight for shorter, wider ones.

Pelforth Brune one of my favourite pre-craft revolution beers! Can't wait to hear how this one turns out. A shame that Pelforth itself is now just a pawn in the Heineken empire.

As terrym says, you need to make a correction to the refractometer once there is alcohol produced. I use this one: Refractometer Calculator - Brewer's Friend I've checked it with a hydrometer and it's accurate enough for me. As also said, the main advantage I see is the very small amount of...

Oops, forgot I'd done it already. Thanks MyQul.

Yes please!

Yes please!

I'm in !

Well spotted! 13l of Honey Impy bottled yesterday. New total 9368 litres

Doh, Of course you're right. And I wasn't even drinking while I was bottling. Thank you. TOTAL 6985 litres.

20l of Light Bitter 1E bottled today 22l of Sauvignon Blanc (Atmosphere Kit) bottled yesterday. Total 6984l

I use BrewMate for my recipes, it has a "no chill" selection box, which makes some kind of notional adjustment. I have a steel fermenter so I just dump the hot wort straight into it and pitch my yeast next day, but like MyQul I mostly brew darker beers!

18.5L of "Spicy Dusty Mud" ( Chilli Stout) 5697.5L

You can never have too many buckets...

21 litres of cider bottled from over-wintering ferment! Total: 2407 litres

20L of "Saison for the Spring" bottled today 1369L

Managed to locate them on the source company's site, https://www.cnseeds.co.uk/shop/, and they are pretty generic there too. From the picture they are almost certainly humulus lupulus aureus, or "golden hops", which aren't "normally" used for brewing, but there are plenty of previous posts of...

It depends entirely on your taste. If you like your cider with the astringency of unsweetened black tea at some level, then go ahead, otherwise no need.