Hello

[Chuffe]

Hello Everybody

I am new to everything homebrew related I have always has an interest but never had the room. Fortunately I have now moved so have a garage and have also been given some kit so will attempt some of Wurzels Orange Wine this weekend.
All of the kit is a bit grubby as it has been stored in a shed so I will clean it tonight and I purchased some VWP Cleaner/Steriliser but I am little unsure how I am supposed to sterilise it all?

Anyway thanks for the recipe and I hope to try some ale's as well (not sure if I have left it late for Xmas?)

 

[Tony]

Nice to meet you Chuffe.
Wash it as best you can with soapy water and rinse, then mix up some cleaner as it says on the tub and give it all a nice long scrub and soak - or mix up some a little stronger if the stains are stubborn.
Make sure you rinse and rinse and rinse though!
Have fun.
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[stevander74]

Hi Chuffe, welcome to the forum.
If youve got a lot of stuff to sterilize i suggest you give it all a good clean with normal hot soapy water, give it a rinse, then mix up a bathful of sterilizing solution using the VWP as instructed and soak all the stuff for 10 to 15 minutes then give it a rinse in clean cold water. I think this is the easiest way to do a lot of stuff, its how i do my bottle when bottling beer.
I dont do wine myself but ive heard a lot of good things about wurzles orange wine, its very popular.
If your doing ale from kits then you have plenty of time to get some made for christmas. Kits normally take about 4 weeks, although the longer you leave the beer conditioning the better it gets, just depends on how patient you are.
Good luck with the wine and happy brewing :

 

[graysalchemy]

Hi Chuffe

Welcome to the forum. Glad to see you are going to make some wow. It is great :thumb: . I think the other two have summed up cleaning and sterilising. Don't forget that the hardest thing a home brewer can learn is patience. It will be worth the wait when it is done though. You will get hooked on wow and its variations so I suggest you make a couple of demijons while you are at it.

Cheers

AG

 

[Chuffe]

Thanks for all your advice it’s much appreciated and nice to meet you all
I think the bath idea is a good one
4 weeks for ale sounds great to me
Can I use old used wine bottles to store my wine in? I have been saving them but they are usually screw tops?

 

[graysalchemy]

Yes they are fine but eventually the screw caps get knackered.

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[jonboymentalhealth]

hi and welcome to the forum.
Yes there is no reason you cant reuse wine bottles just sanitise first and make sure the wine has finished fermenting so as not to end up with a mess everywhere :

 

[Chuffe]

Hello again

I am in the process of making some wow, do I add the Glycerine at the beginning? Also I do not have any yeast nutrient only young’s super wine yeast compound does this matter?

Thank you

 

[Sean_Mc]

Hi and welcome to the forum :

You can add the glycerine at the beginning, super wine yeast is okay, but only fill to the shoulder as its a lively one

 

[Chuffe]

Thank you Sean_Mc , first DJ is bubbling away already just knocking up a 2nd batch, thank you everyone again

 

[Chuffe]

After making my 2 DJ's, today the 2nd one is bubbling 12 times a minute but the 1st one is only bloping 3 times a minute, does this matter? :?
Cheers

 

[hypnoticmonkey]

Chuffe, where abouts in Thanet?

I'm was brought up in Sandwich.

 

[Chuffe]

Hi Hypnoticmokey, I'm in Ramsgate I actually went to Sandwich school in my last year, Small world.

 

[evanvine]

Welcome to the Forum Chuffe, happy brewing :thumb:

 

[Chuffe]

when using a bung and airlock should I have the red plasic cap thing on top of the airlock?

 

[Sean_Mc]

Really you should as it stops dust and stuff falling in. I've lost a few of mine so just put a chunk of cotton wool in the top

 

[Chuffe]

oh bummer Ive only just noticed that people have them on top of theirs in the pictures, I have not had them on my 2 Wurzels Orange Wine for a week do you think thats a problem?

 

[Sean_Mc]

It'll be okay mate, is the water in the trap looking clear?

 

[Chuffe]

yes looks fine, should I be changing the water?

 

[evanvine]

Plastic caps and cotton wool plugs are just icing on the cake, the water alone does a magnificent job!