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Hello, I have dropped a minor clanger. We are having a party on Friday night and I have many a home brew beer cider stout wines to lure my friends. Moo ha ha ! Beer is all well matured and in my workshop ( to be renamed "my pub" ). At perfect temperature. However last...

Hello, I have got 5 barrels on the go ready for Christmas and one has had a serious leak (air) Which i hope have cured now, two have weeps on the tap seal like you and two are ok. In preparation for the Christmas party I "tested" them all last night !!! The leaky taps stopped when I...

Hello, We have a party in two weeks and I have brewed ales,stout,cider,white wine, red wine. Its all a couple of months old and so I thought ok. Tonight I decided as a precaution to test each to make sure on the night I was not serving vinegar. Ok stout was lovely Harvest bitter...

Hi. Thanks for the reply. Right on the label, Smooth and light, Hints of lime and the scents of white flowers, 45% grape concentrate. Italiam grapes, But no suggestion of sweet or dry whoops. Now I keep precise notes of my brewing all except this one aaaah. OG 1060...

Hello, I finally got to the bottling/wine in a bag stage of brewing this kit (23l) and we gave it a crafty taster. Well the instructions do say ok to drink now "but will mature" I enjoyed it but by joe it was very sweet. Can I unsweeten it? Might it unsweeten itself with age...

Howdee, My first polypin full of a nice suprise from Santa for me ! Has had its 70 g of sugar and been in the warm now for two days. When I syphoned it into the polypin I expelled all the air. Now its gassing itself some "air" has appeared is this normal? Im sort of guessin its...

Hi yep expelled the air as best as possible and then got the last bit out by opening the tap pointing up whilst giving her a squeeze. Sound passionate doesn't it ha ha . Brew is Santa's Winter warmer which I last made two years ago and went down well. Hope I got it right ? But wondered how...

Hello chaps, Well last night syphoned from my fermenting bucket into a polypin. What a doddle fantastic. I think I should have left the bag in the box I think as I had to lift it into it which was fun. I primed it with 70 g of brewing sugar and i guess the polypin was about...

Hello, Thanks for the reply, I have some Santas winter warmer just finished fermentation and was wondering whether to batch prime it and either put it into a polypin or a cheapo barrel that I have? Wanted to serve from there when it has done its priming and clearing if possible...

Hello, I have a couple of 23l brews ready and I was wondering if I can syphon it into a collapsible bag/ polypin to mature and clear? I will have some delivered tomorrow courtesy of Mr ebay. Wondered if u just syphon into the bag and prime and do you just expell the air ? Do you...

Hello, I have my first couple of pressure barrels in the store now maturing after doing secondary fermentation in the house. Its cooler there so think thats right but I was worried about the light getting to them. Do you need to be carefull when storing them in a pressure barrel? The...

Thanks for the tips chaps. A search on ebay came up with two people selling collapsable wine containers 5/10/20 litre sizes. Sounds the way to go. Cheers. Col.

Looks like a trend our local Morrison's has stopped doing kits. Staff cannot understand why they were good sellers. Mind Morrisons in Coventry has just been refurbished and gone a bit up market :lol: Cheers. Col.

Hello, I have got two pressure barrels with beer ready for Christmas. Just one worry was whether I have got them in there too soon? Ie does it mature in there or go off (untouched) secondly the pressure barrels seem to lack that crisp taste that bottling gives. Is that normal? Can...

Hello, Thanks for the thoughts. Im kind of gathering that you do not want air in the wine container as it will send it off which I guess is why you do not leave too much air space when you bottle. The barrels are plastic ones with a smaller top on them "too blooming small to get...

Hello, New to wine making and hoping to get some ready along with my beer for Christmas. She who must be obeyed has bought a couple of kits and most of them are doing their stuff in demijohns which will result in 6 or so bottles of wine each great no problem. However the last kit makes 30...