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Ace-8 Elderflower wine. was meant to be elderflower champagne. Fermentation got stuck, or more likely completely messed up recipe and resulted in a 11% syrup. Therefore, Re-fermented with high % tolerance yeast. left it too late in the demijohn to have a (tertiary?) fermentation in bottle. So...

Just been to my local polskie sklep and bought four bottles of various beers coming out of the Staropolskie brewery. Each in flip top bottles. Has anyone re-used these for home brew. The red rubbery thing feels a bit less rubbery than a Wilko empty flip top. Bottle weight seems good. £2.79...

I hear you on submission 3. Wine boxes in our house go faster than 4 bottles. Dangerous. But as Commissar of the Collective of Bottling People, I’m afraid that’s as far we go towards a pact.

I love the Youngs New England saison. First batch fermented around 26-28C using heating belt during warmer months. 2nd batch brewed in winter couldn’t get above 22C. Both lovely. Closest beer you can buy I can think in terms of taste would probably be Hoegaarden. Sort of clove flavour.

Ran out of crown caps yesterday, went to lidl, bought 2 of their Italian sparkling water 1 liter green PET bottles (32p). Drank contents, filled with latest brew batch. Cannot wait to use My brand new 1 liter Stein glass xmas present.

Sloe wine. This years late august picking. First time making and tasting it. Really like it, it will probably improve with time (15 bottles to go). Can’t remember recipe, but nothing fancy. Have got a smaller 1 gal batch on the go at the moment from a November picking using the Brewbitz recipe...

Youngs New World Saison. Beautiful subtle spicy clove flavours, nice hops. Perfect for Xmas. Used a brew belt first time, fermented at around 24-26c. Conditioned in bottle 4 weeks. Very happy.