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Hey guys, Basicly I forgot to buy hops for me brew im going to be doing tomorrow so have to use some of my other hops. I was going to go for Saaz but it slipped my mind. Anyway my recipe is: Coopers Lager Kit 1kg pale malt 500g vienna 500g carapills 100g crystal 60 I'm going to be doing a...

Thanks for the reply, I was thinking the hop bitterness would be a little higher as the Galaxy hops I used were 16.9 AA. Also what would you recomend for a dry hop? I have 16g Galaxy and 32g Saaz left.

Hey guys, I used up some ingrediants on my last bacth of beer and really have no idea what to call it....is it a lager, IPA, ALE etc I started with a coopers lager kit and then added the following 1kg DME 450g carapils 400g crystal 60 8g East Kent Goldings + 8g Galaxy + 4g Saaz...

Thanks for the reply but I don't have lactose powder available to me. I only have table sugar and granulated sweetener (splenda)

Hey guys, I have done maybe eight 5 gallon (UK) batches of cider so far and I seem to be getting way better. My current recipe is: 22 litres of apple juice 1KG dextrose 500g white sugar 4 teaspoons yeast nutrient 2 teaspoons pectolase 1 sachet of Champagne yeast. Well that gives...

Hey guys, I managed to get a few 30 bottle wine kits rather cheap so have managed to scavenge 30 good quality bottles that originally were champagne bottles. They use a regular size cork as I tested each one with a plastic tipped push in cork. Well I don't have a corker yet and i was...

This video should help you. I have followed his instructions and it worked well. He also goes into the dangers....or lack of. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ykc5pUw8ugA

At this time I only really have a maximum of a 2 litre pot. Maybe in the future I will be able to get a bigger pot for that sort of thing.

Hello, I have been brewing with extract kits and juices for a few years and have got steadily better resulting in brews that I really enjoy, mostly ciders and wines. Anyway today I was at my local homebrew store and had a great conversation with the owner. He was talking to me about all...

Hello, I am sick of doing small 1 gallon batches of Apfelwein / cider so I am going to brew a batch in my beer bin. It holds 25 litres so I plan to make just that. I would ideally like it around 9-10%. The juice I will use will be the general 100% apple juice from the supermarket...

Would a bread yeast hit the high of 10%? I always thought it would give up at about 4-5%. Not sure where I got that number though so im not 100% sure.

Hello, I have made loads of ciders in the past using store bought juice and it works great. I have been trying different yeasts out and was wondering if doing the fermentation in stages has any advantage? Just now I make 9-10% cider using wine/champagne yeasts. I was thinking maybe...

So have you had any failures? Im rather scared of 2 litres of cider exploding everywhere.

Do you carb them using sugar? Thats what I plan to do and i know my glass bottles can been rather fizzy. I could maybe use half the sugar so its safe and has a little carb.

Hello, I have a large quantity of cider that needs to be bottled but I don't have access to bottles just now. I would prefer to bottle asap as im going to be busy. I was wondering if I could buy some cheap 2 litre cola and empty the cola out, sterilise then bottle. Just wondering if its...

Wow ok maybe I went a little over board. I will leave it for a month or so to ferment completely then bottle carb for a few months and see if it turns out like cider or some sort of alternate fuel. Thanks for the calculation.

Each Litre of apple juice had 114g sugar. So that would equal 490.20g sugar from apple juice 320g of white sugar 220g of clover honey

Hey, I made my latest batch using 2x5l demijohns. In each I used 4.3l of store bought apple juice. To each of the vessels I added 220g of clover honey and 320g of white sugar. I used some general use high alcohol wine yeast. I was wanting to get a decent %, maybe 7-8% but I think I may...

Hello, I had an idea. I made some rather nice mead a few months back which is aging in my cupboard. I also made some nice apple cider using pure apple juice. So i was thinking I would try to mix it up and attempt some sort of apple mead (im sure this has a name). I have a spare 5 litre...

I currently have 4 1/2lbs of blossom honey and a 5 litre demijohn. Does anyone have any suggestions as to what mead recipe would be good for me? there seems to be loads but most are for 1 US gallon which is 3.7 litres. I tried a simple mead recipe a few months back and it turned out nice but...