This brewing business is a bit addictive!

[Casey76]

So yesterday I started off my two first fruit juice brews (red grape and pomegranate, and red grape and cranberry/apple). Today I started off another two (white grape and apple, and white grape and orange)

And I'm already considering what I'm going to do next... and when can I get started hehe.

It makes you feel as if you are achieving something as they start fizzing almost immediately.

 

[bobsbeer]

Well done. Sounds like a good start. Now you need to get a 25lt fermenter so you can build up a good stock. Surprising how quickly 6 bottles disappear once you get them bottled.

 

[dennisking]

Yup

 

[yellafella]

Well done. Sounds like a good start. Now you need to get a 25lt fermenter so you can build up a good stock. Surprising how quickly 6 bottles disappear once you get them bottled.

I dont really have the room for a large FV and buckets, so tend to do 1 Gallon batches but have currently been able to get away with having 5 on the go at once without too much grief from my wife of less than one month (Dont want to push it too much just yet :whistle:). That still does get me 30 bottles and I can have them spaced so I only bottle 12 at a time which is less of a pain!!

I laid down 18 bottles at the weekend and have 2G maturing and can be bottled this weekend with 3G fermenting away in the kitchen (Last one started this morning, Beaverdale Chablis Blush kit at the request of SWMBO)

 

[TRXnMe]

I'm suffering the same problem

Not only have I got 2 full size fermenting vats bubblinng away with beer in them, but 4 x 1 gallon demi johns and 2 x 2 litre demi johns fermenting away with various ciders and wines in them :)

As you mentioned, it is incredibly satisfying going from ingredients to bubbling product in a short space of time

 

[oldbloke]

I've got 10 active demis...
Bottled 2 gallons of dandelion wine today, immediately started 2 of sorghum lager
Bottling 2 turbos tomorrow or sat, got the ingredients for the next 2 ready.

 

[aarsims]

i like the sound of 1 gallon beer batches... how do you go about that oldbloke?

 

[liampenn]

Well done. Sounds like a good start. Now you need to get a 25lt fermenter so you can build up a good stock. Surprising how quickly 6 bottles disappear once you get them bottled.

I dont really have the room for a large FV and buckets, so tend to do 1 Gallon batches but have currently been able to get away with having 5 on the go at once without too much grief from my wife of less than one month (Dont want to push it too much just yet :whistle:). That still does get me 30 bottles and I can have them spaced so I only bottle 12 at a time which is less of a pain!!

I laid down 18 bottles at the weekend and have 2G maturing and can be bottled this weekend with 3G fermenting away in the kitchen (Last one started this morning, Beaverdale Chablis Blush kit at the request of SWMBO)

Ahhh just bribe you SWMBO with some home-made wine. It normally does the trick!
:rofl:

 

[oldbloke]

i like the sound of 1 gallon beer batches... how do you go about that oldbloke?

Ah, I don't, really.
I don't brew beer coz t'missus is coeliac, but I did an experiment making ale out of millet and the quantity for that was just a gallon.
Now I have one of the new gluten-fee kits and it has 2 of everything so I'm doing half of it, which would be 20 pints, but brewing it short to 16, so it fits in 2 demis, then i'll prime it with a solution rather than grain sugar to bring it back up to 18 pints.
All the other stuff is wines and turbos.