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Thanks old bloke. I'll try that then.

Hello, So I've made a quick red wine with welchs's purple grape juice. At first I'd thought it had gone wrong as it tasted different to normal (not a great advert :lol: ) But people who have tryed it say its ok? but lacking something? It's a bit thin for want of a technical/wine term, and maybe...

I bought some of 'welch's' purple grape juice ( from cocentrate ) yesterday. do i need to put anything with it like fruit tea bags or can i just get that going?

Thankyou. Those cornies look expensive. Very Smart though.

Umm Im not sure if its a good or bad one. Its White hard plasstic with A brass valve on top (for gassing i presume) it cost me around £40 And I appologise for my ignorance but I've no idea what cornies are? Sorry :oops:

Awoke this morning to the wouderfull strong smell of brewing beer...Hang on a minute that shouldn't happen. :wha: I found that the tap was leaking from the washer and the tap itself. (This being only the second time the barrel has been used) It was fair tight, obviously not tight enough? I...

Well after a lot of faffin about and a few problems here and there, Ive finally got my very first wine into bottles! Its an apple wine with apples from my 'in laws' apple tree (Laxton Fortune) Due to my lack of experience ( and reading things wrong! )I topped up with vodka, Using a little too...

A friend phoned me yesterday to ask if I was still into making homebrew as his dad was clearing out his garage and had some homebrewing equipment he didnt want anymore. Woundered if I was interested. Went up tonight and collected : 1 Clear D.j 1 dark brown D.j 40 Ltr barrel A box of bits and...

Thanks moley, A blush sounds cool.

Hi all. made up a fruit tea bag wine last night. Followed a couple of reciepies from this forum. I used ingredients for a white wine.White grape juice, white wine yeast etc... But the tea bags I used were red. ( Strawberry, raspberry & loganberrry ) Will this make any difference as I've heard...

So I've got a continental larger kit on the go for the wife. At the moment its in the fermentation bucket. When I transfer it to the cask can i use pectolase? Because its a larger I'd like it to be as clear as possible Any advice/tips well recieved And no taking the micky because its larger ;)

Blimey, was having trouble with hazing. Tried some fining yesterday and acted on advice from this forum. As I type, I swear you could watch it clearing! thanks to everyone who gave advice. :clap: The wine looks amazing and just keeps looking better every hour. Thanks again everyone.

Thanks for all your advice :thumb: . This is the most nerve racking thing i've ever done! Exciting though.

Blimey, Thanks for the super fast replies! will try all of that then. Will i need to rack after all that?

Hi all, Im making an apple wine and have trouble with it clearing. On a visit to my local homebrew shop he gave me the finings assuring me that that would work. I have the type with two pouches 'a' and 'b'. A goes in first then B after an hour ( according to the label ). Stupid me put b in first...

Hello, just thought I'd say hi from Devon. I'm very new to homebrewing having only brewed a couple of kit beers and a kit wine. Currently brewing my own country wine from scratch, very excited but also nervous? :|