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Yes, the next year tried again but getting the flower petals only was really difficult.

Made an elderflower IPA that worked, a word of caution, make sure it’s Flores only, I was in a hurry and put whole florets in and brewed through taste was good and drinkable. I was in bed for a week as the green in the elder produced cyanide that gives you gripping pain and diarrhoea.

That Vigo is astounding and because this year the apple crop has been good we have pressed in the region of 500+ litres which equates to about 1250 kg of apples. Brewing outside in one 210 litres water butt and 110 litres water butt- bought new and only used for brewing. Last year we stood...

Posted this before, we have a Vigo and it laughs at 80kg infact last weekend we mashed and pressed in the region of 500kg making enough juice for a 50 gallon barrel ( first time experiment of brewing in the wood) plus about 5 gallons of Perry. Will try to attach videos of last years action.

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Hi we also had an set back on a batch last year, the taste we found was over powering of Ester, looked good and cleared well with good fizzy bubbles. Used champagne yeast and small bubbles. I’m investigating cause but it is probably due to the secondary rehydration and pulp and repressing of the...

Vigo is the boy for a scratter

Where are you based? Some villages in our district of Shropshire have invested in similar set ups for the community.

My neighbour and I last year started Cider from local apples and he as a smallholder had access to Scratter and press, made 200 plus litres and majority was drinkable, some we let get to far as life impinged. A collection of 330 ml bottles and 2 let plastic. Primed and left to mature kept us...

Yes that’s ok but I add 500g of light cane sugar

I use the chocolate malt but warm steep at about 65 to 70 degrees c for 30 minutes. Used with simply export stout tastes like the old bottle Guinness used to. Bottled and left for 4 weeks it carbonates well. I sometimes leave straight from brew in the pressure barrel and it good but tastes...

I have one that is a pimped Richies simply stout that is close to the old bottled Guinness, basically I add 250g of chocolate malt that I firstly bring to 65 70 degrees for 30 minutes then up 75 degrees for 30 minutes. The grains are in a mash bag. The volume of water is 5 litres. Mean time the...

I'm having problems attaching the pictures. Not techie, but it's a really switched on community and I believe that it was a general application for the community to use on the centred on village hall. We hope to be able to have a pork and cider meeting, we have a few pigs in a rough patch of...

Well, I have also foraged apples and a local village has through the Lottery got a press and scatter for locals to use, see attached, managed 200 litres from around 400 kgs of apples (mixed varieties and mixture of windfall and picked). Roughly 1/2 litre per 1kg and coming off at 1050 on the...

Last year did a similar with blackberry juice but added it to coopers stout and boy what a smooth moors drink.

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As having lived through the pre and post CAMERA era seeing is not believing and trying out estimating your taste and value means in this day and age the abv means more than the price. As we say something for nothing , unless on clearance cannot be believed. Having been to LIDL today and picked...