Recent content by Fish-man

Its off. Havn't had a chance to get to the shop but as it seems to be perfectly happy as it is I wont bother. Resilient little things aint they :D fingers crossed it turns out ok

I brewed up a nice batch today in midst of an argument with SWMBO. Got everything in my bucket ready to go when I realize I didn't have any yeast . DOH. Anyway in a bit of a panic I opened one of the bottles from my last batch which has been conditioning for 5 days and poured that in...

If the sanitizer cant penetrate them surely the beer wont be able to either

Yes. Badly I put one bottle of apple wine made from bought apple juice to one side without a cork for exactly this reason .. forgot about it for about three months and then I gave it a quick sip ... tasted almost exactly like the bottles which I corked. I keep meaning to look into it...

Strange that a company which sells fermentors recommend you buy a new one quite often :D. Doesn't take a genius to work it out. I cant see a good reason why a bucket cant be used more then 5 times as long as you sterilize it correctly. Why the worry about scratches? If the...

add fruit juice to water ( orr add whole fruit to water .. dissolve sugar into water however you want, Sterrilise the whole lot, Campden is what most recipes I see call for, add pectic enzyme if you need it after 24hour (I think) then add yeast 12hours after that ( I think). Then wait rack...

Having done this myself Ive bottled after 2 days and it has stopped ... but I got allot of sediment. Then again I bottled after 7 days another time and still got sediment ... but not as much. Both times they tasted fine though :drunk:.

Oddly enough while I was making wine I didn't feel the need for a name or fancy labels ... or indeed any kind of label except Ingredients ABV Date Handwritten on a bog standard "address" type label I don't bother labeling my cider at all except the 2 litre bottles which go for...

Actually these ones don't come with the plastic collar/converter.

What sort of number are you looking at ? They come up on the UK Ebay fairly often

Ive just been working my way through emptying some bottles ready for my firts brew and it's just occurred to me that I can get a bottle, label, cap and some pretty decent beer for just slightly more then simple empty bottle cost's me from the LHBS How's that work?

I once had a job where the materials did arrive until a month after the project was due out :mad: . We were subject to some compulsory overtime then ... and I wouldn't have minded doing the overtime normally ... but because it was forced overtime I was made to fit my life around work , when...

I like that explanation best :D

So does that mean we all put way too much effort in ? :D Wasn't expecting an answer quite as definite as that , Many thanks

Been thinking about this for a while. Cider and wine are pretty simple to make .. in fact it was in inevitable that in the times before sterilization somebody would drink some juice which had "gone off" and realized what great fun it was. But producing beer is a different matter I think...