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I have just tried my first bottle of Pils using this kit and I have got to say after reading some reviews I wasnt expecting much... Its great, I tastes just how I wanted it to. Its had 2 weeks warm and 3 weeks cold. banged a bottle in the fridge this aft and ive just poured it. Not much head...

That's a good idea. Im just stocking up on plastic topped corks but will be using full corks for my port when it's ready to be hidden under the floorboards for maturing, hopefully I will have enough port bottles by then if I'm lucky

The screw cap bottles have the same internal diameter as a corked bottle, my first kit used all screw cap bottles and some corks I got for free from the homebrew shop. Fit as snug as a bug so I wouldn't be too bothered, it's just aesthetically different, thicker glass around the rim to hold the...

Can you list your kit, it would be easier to tell you what else you need

Purple beer line cleaner is what we use at work, white beer line cleaner is better though as it's not diluted to add the purple reactor, but it's harder to tell when your running clean water back through. White stays white and purple turns green when dirty so for h and a reasons most places use...

The man in doors wants to try an exotic wine. Hes thinking mango or coconut. I best get searching for recipes. Ive got two empty 23l fv and one empty 5l one so plenty of room for it. We are now on day three with the strawberry one and its still going strong. I recon it will get higher than the...

This is what I have in my note. I sort of muddled a few recipes up with different instructions. 1kg strawberry, hulled and chopped as small as you want to but I just halved the big ones 3 bananas, almost ripe but the riper the better, chopped up Pop them in a pan with 1.3kg granulated sugar...

So just been down to the lab and this is what greets me. Wasn't expecting an overflow 2 days in. But it looks like it was violent, I checked it just before bed at 1am and it was fine :( https://www.dropbox.com/s/tbxacu9grv4sj85/2014-01-09%2011.18.34.jpg

I'm not trying to push it all the way up to 23% I was just disappointed with the 20% one as it only came out at 14% was just hoping for something a little stronger. Maybe 18% ish

Well Moley. I may have messed up cos I used household sugar instead of brewing sugar. I had it in my head that granular was glucose :oops: and its currently sat at 23L exactly and has foamed all the way up to the lid

Well after a fairly sucessful alcotec 48 I decided to try an alcotec 23 as it worked out cheaper than all the stuff for the 48 brew. Its been bubbling away for 16 hours and all is looking good. Just wondering what difference it will make using glucose instead of dextrose? The 48 kit says to use...

Just for those with storage problems. Wilkos have those types of opaque tubs in the sale although not the sturdiest ones. If you want to stack two or three on top of each other clas ohlson have 14inch high ones at two for £11.99.i stood on one in the shop yesterday and it took all 12 stone of...

So next question is should I shake my wine up. Its been on 24 hours and most of the fruit has settles to the bottom :/

I'm going to do an all banana one next week, just waiting for them to ripen now

No heres the link then https://www.dropbox.com/s/w8ms68wjbhjew9d/20140107_122047.jpg Stupid phone lol

Forgot to say I added half a cup of strong tea before pitching. And ill try and get the photo on again.

Well just thought I'd share a picture of my Strawberry and Banana wine. Steeped for 24 hours in 1.3kg sugar and a couple of pints of boiling water. Strained twice and added 1tsp citric acid. 1tsp nutrient and pitched the yeast at 20c with a gravity of 1070, potential alcohol was 14%. This is my...

I keep saying I want to do a mead but im going to wait until summer when a friends bees will be busy working. He has a lot of lavender near him so it gives something else to his honey. Its to expensive from the shops :cry:

I've just picked up a few things from there along with my first DJ (after buying 2 5L buckets from the LHBS but the other half deciding he wants to try a kit out :/ meaning another brew for me to put on) all the sale tickets were still on though apart from the 2 can kits which just said £17.60...

From all the recipes I've seen they all say to rack off the first, leave for a few more weeks, rack off the second, and then when crystal clear bottle it. If your not using a stabiliser then just leave it and rack it till it's clear. Hope this helps, I've just put my first port on so no expert...