New Boy

[Turbine-Tel]

Hi all,
I'm new to the forum, I'm 61 from N.Lincs.
I stumbled across your forum when searching for "overdosing with too much sugar".
I had a bottle of honey that had crystalised and wanted to use it in my second batch, rather than warming it up to clear, I'm not keen on it warm. I knew it was richer than sugar but was unsure by how much. I guessed in the end.
Out of interest I emailed the honey company and the chap said it was 1 : 0.63.
I'd guessed wrong and put too much sugar with it.
I havent brewed since the early eighties when in the RAF. We all used to buy a kit from Boots it was in a black box and was as near to pub beer as we'd ever got.
I have my first batch of comeback in a King Keg in the garage now into it's third week, I sampled it on Sunday and it's just like homebrew always tasted so I would welcome any recommended kits.
I've just bottled a second batch and is in the warm. Unfortunately I didn't have any bottles so have used 2litre Rosie cider jugs, have put corks in and then the screw tops. No explosions so far. The positive side of 2L is you have to drink it all in one go.

 

[Banbeer]

Hi @Nowtevereasy and welcome to the forum, were the cider bottles for fizzy cider or flat? if they were for fizzy then you should have no problems if you bottled after fermentation had completed, you will get problems if they were for still cider.

 

[Chippy_Tea]

Welcome to the forum. thumb

 

[Turbine-Tel]

Hi Banbeer, thanks Chippy tea.
They were from Westons Rosie "still" cider. Oh dear, go to bed with my ear defenders on I think.
My thinking was that the screw cider caps will act as an extra resistance for the cork. Those corks were pretty tight going in.
I did put 6 litres in plastic coke bottles, figured they should withstand the pressue. I can visualise few frowns. PLASTIC!
I have an old Rotokeg in the loft but can't find the top tackle for it, seems a shame as I never had any problems with the rotokeg.

 

[Banbeer]

Coke bottles are really good as they are meant to put fizzy stuff in but the cider bottles (glass) could break as they are not meant for fizz, I've used fizzy water bottles in the past when I ran out of bottles as you can buy the water cheap and re-use the bottles.