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I keep my freezers ready for other stuff by steam extracting the juice from blackberries and elderberries with this: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Steam-Juicer-Juicer-Steamer-Cooker-Juice-Extractor-10-2-in-26cm-/182568263915?epid=1854106609&hash=item2a81eaa0eb:g:ng4AAOSwaEhZEtXO Pete

For some reason, old recipes almost always use too much sugar if you resurrect then today, leaving them too sweet to many. Maybe sugar has got sweeter!? There was a guy called Berry who drove winemaking in the sixties, a real pioneer. Yet you look at his recipies and vastly reduce the amount...

Chippy, just tried this on my iPad. Fired up ITV Hub, got a chromecast icon top right of my screen. Hit it and was offered my chromecast name as an option. Selected that and connected OK. Selected the first prog I found (Love Island :-(:-(:-( ) and it started to play on my tv. SORRY... just read...

Going off at a bit of a tangent, Aldi do "Clear Spring" water at 14p for 2 litres, so 25 litres would cost 185p rather than over five quid for Ashbeck.

Can you wait a month or so until the elderberries come out? Elderberries and blackberries in wine go together deliciously. I use 500g elder, 1.5 to 2Kg blackberry a gallon, they add tannin and depth to the wine.

Hi. Surprised no grape juice in the recipe - I'm sure even one asda red grape juice would have improved it. Another observation - have you considered a specific yeast for red fruit wine? For example: "Gervin Yeast - No. 2 : Red Label, Full bodied red table Burgundy/Champagne (Monrachet)...

Some guys on here have enhanced this sort of kit by adding 500g currants to 40 bottle kits.

I've never heard of them so don't know. Take the "7 day wine " bit with a ton of salt.

Welcome Mark, you're right, this is a geat place. GOP

Thanks BD. I've learnt something today - I never knew the copper kettle existed. I'll have to pay them a visit.

Hi, and welcome to the forum. Don't know of any within 40 miles of me (Milton Keynes). Where's your nearest homebrew shop?

My mistake. You're right. I enjoyed both series. Don't know where I got the middle less good series from.

One series I got hooked on was "Missing". Series one and three Were gripping, with lots of red herrings and going off at tangents, Series two not so good, but all three series standalone.

A few years ago I posted some comments on a documentary About Marstons brewery: Really dumbed down. Just watched the third one where the guy actually brews beer. He brewed 50000 litres and used 432kg yeast, so added just under 200g yeast per 22.5 litres. He also added a small amount of...

Thanks for that. Is it easy to clean? I stand my tub in a water bath with a heater for temp control. How Do you do anything like that? Does it really ferment quicker?

Hi, welcome to the forum. In the top photo, what's the white balloon shaped object on the left, and where did you get it from?

You've got a bargain there. Nobgoblin is 1.25 in Tescos, but all the others are 1.80

Hi Tau. The only Waitrose cordial I can find is Frobishers, With 6.3 g sugar per 100ml. Is this the one you used?

terrym said First I made up a grain steep with 100g light crystal malt (30 mins at 65*C with 750ml water, sparge with 750ml water at 80*C, then boil liquor 15 mins). Can anyone confirm or deny that crystal malt does not need mashing as it is already converted to sugar, and he could have just...

Are you doing no chill because you dont think it makes a difference, or because you dont have a cooling coil or chill plate? I used to lug a five gallon cube of wort up the stairs and splash it in a full bath of cold water for 30 minutes to cool it.