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well its in a garage combined with the house but has a hot tub at constant temperature in there. the room is at about 21-24 degrees c constant. its still pushing up the lid of the fermentation bucket slowly so may have a bit left to go.

yep i simmered till light steaming, then cooled and added sugar and yeast. its been bubbling every second or less since sunday 16th and now bubbles every 3 seconds so it must be working.

Thought i would throw all this together to see how it turns out. Recipe as follows: 1kg cut mixed peel (orange and lemon) 2.6kg peach slices in syrup (liquidised) 340 grams raspberry jam 1 cup ribena (extra strength version) 1/2 cup lime cordial 1 litre cranberry juice 1/2 litre cherry juice 8...

Ive only just started brewing and experimenting so please dont be too harsh when telling me im doing it wrong. This is what i used: 12 litres apple pure, no added stuff apple juice, 2.6kg tin of sliced apples in syrup, liquidised, 1 litre cranberry juice, 4 litres water as was too appley, 5 tea...

it will be racked in a day or 2. what are the 'nasty' by products? can i get rid of with fine filters? also what would be wrong with drinking it?

ive drunk a fair amount of different ciders in my time and its a rough guess. didnt have a hydrometer when i started it, or when adding the turbo yeast and more sugar. my dad said from the hydro that there was 7% alcohol still left to be made a few days ago but now it has about 3

Hi i started off with 18 litres of mixed apple and pear juice made from the fruit, then added about 2 kg of sugar (1.5k cane sugar + 500g brown sugar). added 2 small sachets of wine yeast and left it in some demi-johns. after 2-3 weeks i got a brewing bucket and put all the cider in that, it...