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Hi all! I am on my second batch of ginger beer (gallon water, 200g grated ginger, juice 2 lemons, nottingham yeast) EDIT FORGOT TO WRITE 500g SUGAR! I was very pleased with the first batch except for one thing. After I fermented to dry, and added 7 teaspoons sugar to each 1.5 litre bottle (I...

Hi folks! I hope someone can help me with a tricky decision about what to do with a batch of cider that I accidentally double dosed with metabisulphite. I intended to kill the wild yeast prior to pitching yeast into the 30 litre (8 gallon) bucket full of apple juice I juiced myself. After two...

Hi all! I've got a 25 litre bucket full of apple juice, into which I pictched yeast almost three days ago. No bubbling in the airlock yet. I made the juice using a kitchen juicer so it has more sediment at the bottom than one would normally have, but it worked fine like this last time. On the...

Hi there! We (thought we) had enough fermented cider that it was going to easily fill a 25 litre demijohn when we siphoned it off the lees. However, we hadn't calculated that the lees themselves were taking up a lot of volume, nor that siphoning the last couple of litres was going to be really...

Hi! I have 30 litres of cider which seemes to have finished fermenting (was down from more than a bubble a minute at the start through the airlock to less than one every five minutes). I cracked open the bucket to test it a couple of days ago. Test test (very dry) and specific gravity...