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I'm glad someone else still has ancient home-made kit. I still have a few floats I made back in the late 1950s, including a green one that was my favourite - used to catch gudgeon and small perch in a local pond, in darkest Lancashire. I've also still got the Bernard Venables book on making...

I always sterilise mine. Old nylon plain net curtains are also useful: I use a piece for initial straining when there are biggish bits of whatever to strain out, to avoid completely clogging a fine-mesh bag. Then do the fine-mesh straining. It's a bit more hassle but overall I think it's...

Where is "here"? Home-brewing has been legal in England for a long time. Selling isn't, but if you drink it yourself that's OK. C J J Berry was writing his books about it many decades ago. I learned how to make a basic home-brew back in uni days (in England). Beetroot beer, it was, or so...

28 sovereigns and more groats. I was never much good at maths.

Ye Gods!!!! Student on a budget and you can afford 30 quid??? In my day when I was a student 30 quid (or 29 sovereigns and lots of groats, as we called it in those days) would have paid my sword fees and kept me in quills for a year with enough left over for three or four bashes with the...

My (late) mother used to make drinks which we called cherry brandy and apricot brandy. They had nothing to do with brandy, and were actually fairly strong sweet wines, rather like sweet sherry. They were incredibly good. I don't know her recipes, though they are probably somewhere within...

Thanks. I've found another thread with information on this topic: https://www.thehomebrewforum.co.uk/threads/substitute-for-white-grape-juice.73334/ . I'm going to do a bit of experimenting (I love it too) to try to determine a fairly exact equivalence between sultanas and WGJ, and the best...

Good idea; thanks for the recipe. Regarding the sultanas, what volume of white grape juice were you attempting to substitute for? Do you have any idea of an equivalence between litres of WGJ and grams of sultanas? Re the ginger wine - I'm going to give it a go.

Thank goodness Boris has gone. Let's hope it's permanently. He is, after all, the idiot who told the public that there would be more money for the NHS by destroying the national economy. Amazingly a great proportion of the gullible public believed him, and now we are almost up s--t creek...

I’m starting (for the second time) to experiment with making wine from supermarket fruit juices - generally, variants of WOW. Red grape juice is readily available, but white grape juice is almost impossible to find. White grape juice concentrate is available: Wilkinson sells 220g bottles for...