Fairly new to homebrew...

[peteyw]

Hi I'm Pete,

I'm fairly new to home brewing I started playing with a cheap home brew kit (D.I.Y Hooch Kit as they class it) from firebox. Although this wasn't the greatest I have since purchased a better quality airlock, 27L Fermenting Bucket and started playing around.

I brewed a nice ginger beer which worked out quite well, and fiery the recipe I used was

4.25Kg Sugar
372g Powdered Ginger
Juice of approx 15 Lemons
Fill up with water and add a yeast of choice seal up and wait....

As it was a first attempt I didn't use Campden Tablets or Finings.

Tasted alright and ended up being quite strong in alcohol content.

I am hopefully going to look at making an Apple Cider or Apple and Berry Cider.

If anybody has any pointers or recipes I'd love to hear them....

Thanks

Pete

 

[Mark1964]

Welcome to the forum :thumb:

 

[pittsy]

hi , welcome to a great hobby

 

[GrumpyBunny]

For cider, make sure you have enough sugar, acidity and tannin. Add these as citric and malic acid plus tea (black) if you're making cider from store bought apple juice. If pressing your own, either use cider apples or get a mix of cookers, eaters and crab apples and balance the mix to your taste.

You'll find plenty of recipes here.

Welcome aboard :

 

[peteyw]

For cider, make sure you have enough sugar, acidity and tannin.

I'm probably going to ask some obvious questions, and I'm sure the answers will be on here somewhere once I have time to find them...

But a quick question as I have already seen it pop up a few times but what is Tannin ? and what is it used for?

thanks

 

[dennisking]

Hi and welcome.

 

[31bb3]

welcome to the forum

 

[PD]

Tannin is a natural product found in woody stems of fruits like elderberries apples etc. Gives that bite to wines. If using juices etc you can but Tanninn powder to add. careful though too much makes a wine bitter and astringent.