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OK thanks both of you. I might do a mix of both suggestions: soak the bottles in a sterilising solution in a bin first, rinse them, then put them through a quick high temperature cycle in the dishwasher with the rinse aid disabled, abort the programme half way through and leave in the hot...

Evening all. So being a returning brewer, I've actually not done any brewing (other than cider) in our new house, which we've been in for 10 years now. The new house had an inbuilt dishwasher which we have just replaced as it's finally given up the ghost. My first beer brew in the "new"...

Thank you, that's very helpful. So on point 2) a lot of so called pure apple juice you buy from the supermarket has an antioxidant in it, usually vitamin C. It's not a preservative as such, but it's used to stop the juice oxidising too much, i.e. turning brown. On point 3) I was just going to...

Made cider from my own apples for the first time a couple of weeks ago, Dabinet and Hereford Red Streak. 15 litres of juice, 1046 OG, nothing added. After 3 days the airlock was going like the clappers, 4 days later it's stopped completely and the gravity is 1002. It is very murky, slight...

Afternoon all, Vince from sunny Suffolk. I'm a returning homebrewer, pretty sure I was once a member on this site or one that looked very much like it, but I've not brewed for probably 10 years. At present I have 15 litres of cider on the go from the Dabinet and Hereford Redstreak trees at my...