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Hello all. I've been brewing beer from kits for a good few years but thought I'd have a bash at wine. Looked on here for hints and tips of where to begin and the general consensus seemed to be that a you could make a decent enough white wine from a kit but reds always seemed to be a bit...

Have I been in a coma? Is it April 1st? Are the 40 new hospitals built yet?

I always add the hops loose and use a hop sock when siphoning. Its a 75g hop addition but never seen anything like this even with 100g additions except the Youngs NW Saison. The 'ring' around the neck of the bottles does not look like hops which I would describe as having a wet sawdust...

LIke the original post, I started with an OG of 1.066 but after the 9-10 days when the hops should be added as per the instructions, my SG was 1.022 - way too high to be adding hops. I left it for another week and it got down to 1.014 which I was not unhappy with so I added the hops. That also...

That's the way to do it!

Did you check the SG b4 adding the hops as 1.020 seems on the high side to me. Even if there's not much if any apparent activity from the airlock, the yeast may still be 'working'. I'd usualy wait until day 12ish, check gravity, if OK add hops then bottle 2 days later. If you add hops too soon...

Yes. 1.2kg of MJ light extract or 1kg of brewing sugar wil be needed. Some of their kits they don't recommend sugar so check first.

Other posts have covered the main beer kits to think about. Not too much on ciders so for what it's worth, I found the basic apple ciders from Youngs, Bulldog and Wobbly gob to be fine. Youngs peach and passion fruit was nice. Their strawberry and lime a bit so so. MJ kits have a sweetener...

Well, beauty is in the eye of the beholder as they say. It wasn't a bad beer. I've made worse. But it was, imo, unremarkable and I doubt I'd make it again.

I think 1.012 is good for this kit after only 9 days. Mine took 3 weeks. I'd give it at least 2 weeks. I found it slow to carbonate but eventually turned out OK albeit unremarkable.

Looks like the caps were not fully tight. Use a set of these to give them a final tweak when tightening. You'll likely need them to loosen too. The onlt issue I have with these bottles is that some of them fail and leak from the bottom. I can have a half empty bottle with beer in my plastic...

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I'm with you on the MJ Bavarian Wheat but I quite liked Youngs ORA. I'd add MJ American IPA to that list.

Sorry, should read 'overcarbed'. Autocorrect be gone!

If you use plastic PET bottles and your brew is overcharged, it's a simple job just to release some of the gas and tighten caps before the beer starts to gush out. You might need to repeat this more than once but it will fix it. As you can see from previous threads, overcarbonation can develop...

I made an MJ Raspberry and Mango cider recently. It too had an 'unusual' aroma when bottling. Not sure if it was definitely sulphur. Anyway, after carbonation and a bit of conditioning it tastes OK and no ill effects after drinking.

I primed this way once but found it too much of a faff so always batch prime now. Anyway, I'm not intending to put you off giving a go but what I'd suggest is you make a small excess so that you can be sure that you won't run out of your sugary solution before priming all 40 bottles. Maybe allow...

Thanks for that. I wasn't suggesting that you 'should' use MJ AIPA, I just plucked that one out of the air. Will investigate the Dark Rock one, though.

I've done a lot of MJ kits but never the Citra - I must have caught on too late as this one has never been available to me even though I've read many positive comments. Anyway, my question is, would it not be possible to use a different MJ kit as a basis - say the American IPA - and substitute...