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Banks bottles are 330g with welded-on labels, so probably not what you're after. That said, I've reused them without problems.

Chipping in my contributions so far - might get another 1 or 2 on this year... 23L Woodfordes Norfolk Nog 23L Muntons Smugglers Special 23L Festival Suffolk Strong 23L Festival Razorback 23L Beerworks Russian Imperial Stout 23L Woodfordes Wherry 23L Festival Summer Glory 23L Bulldog Easter...

My first car was a 1981 Fiesta Popular 1.0 (957cc). It was so basic that it didn't have a radio, or even a slot for one. The window washer didn't have a motor, just a squishy rubber thing on the floor that you pumped with your left foot. It didn't even have a parcel shelf as that was an...

The last 2 Winexpert kits that I made ended at .991 and .992, so if this one does the same that will yield 12.73, so not far off the 13% claimed - or I could add 120 g of sugar to make up the missing quarter percent. Not so good that the taste doesn't live up to expectations though. I've only...

Bit of a late reply, but I've just put mine on (think we both got the same B2B Clearance deal?) and had a starting gravity of 1.088. So still not going to make 13.5%, probably low to mid 12s. How did yours turn out?

Asking out of curiosity, as not in any rush, but... I've just completed a couple of Winexpert kits, a Classic (4 week with 8l of juice concentate) Riesling, and a Reserve (6 week with 10l) Traminer Riesling. Both have exactly the same steps up to the 2 week stage where they are racked into a...

Eeew! Never even thought of that... I may need to switch over to one of the compact ones (which have a cap) to fit under the shelf, if not the one in at the moment has a cap too. I can just hear Gillian Goolden "I'm getting a hint of earwig coming through"... showing my age.

Good point - yes it's an airlock, but it'll be in the same cupboard as my homebrew supplies, so I'll see if it's drying out. I may swap to solid when I'm convinced it's had time to full de-gass.

7l sounds like a useful amount :) I was away for a week. It was bubbling away when I left, but no airlock activity when I returned, and it was already pretty clear (down to 0.992) so I racked off, stabilised, and fined. Now a couple of days later it's pretty clear. From the obligatory sample...

You can get the pin part separately https://www.balliihoo.co.uk/piercing-pin-and-o-ring-for-stainless-s30-valve?gclid=EAIaIQobChMI16-K1b_l-gIVlO3tCh2VzQklEAQYDCABEgJtWPD_BwE If you're going to use them for a while though it will work out cheaper to either get an S30 cylinder if you can get it...

My first wine kit was a Cellar 7 Pinot Grigio 7 day kit, and surprisingly fermentation was over in less than a week, and probably could have been bottled on day 7. I'm sure it benefitted from a few more days primary and settling, but as the must is stabilized, degassed, and fined before...

Just found a picture in an earlier thread. https://www.thehomebrewforum.co.uk/threads/king-keg-leak-through-pressure-valve-even-though-its-new-the-valve-is-new-that-is.88932/ I was referring to o-ring 2 in the diagram.

If it's an S30 valve they have a o-ring in a groove just inside the hole ar the top. Sounds as though that could be missing or damaged?

Hi Wrastler, I'm also planning to let this one age for a while if it turns out semi OK. Ive got 90l of kit wine made, on the go, or needing to be made before the December 'use by' date, so it's not like I'm going to run short any time soon! (Just need to fit some beer brews in between the wine...

Thanks for the tips. Jumping straight into this, after removing stalks, leaves, spoiled grapes (and insects!) I had 2.4kg of grapes, so a bit of an overestimate to start with. Washed these with a crushed campden tablet. As I don't have a press, I decided to freeze them to improve juice...

Thanks, So extract the juice before fermenting... I think you're right about them not being completely ripe, but I don't think they would ripen any more now. To be honest I'm not expecting wonders from this, but really fancy making wine from my own grapes. I'll check the sugar content of the...

There is a good explanation here (well assume it's good as I don't know any better!). https://winemakermag.com/wine-wizard/629-should-i-add-campden-tablets-each-time-i-rack-my-wine-and-how-do-i-measure-the-level-of-sulfite-in-my-wine Bottom line is that it depends how long since you last added...

I've inherited a vine - not sure what variety, and have a reasonable crop this year - about 4-5kg I'd guess. I don't know the variety, but the ripest ones taste reasonable 'raw' (a little tart perhaps) so I suspect it's an eating variety rather than a specific wine grape, but since supermarket...

They are good for gallon batches of turbo cider or supermarket juice wines if either take your fancy. Neither take a lot of effort and produce pretty creditable results. In the garden they make a reasonable cloches for smaller plants to keep the frost off. Cut the bottoms off them, but leave...

Or even a basic syphon tap on the end of the tube makes it so much easier as you just turn it off as your bottle fills. A clothes peg on the tube as it enters the demijohn will stop the syphon tube from dropping to the bottom of the demijohn if you let go, so that can free up a hand to operate...