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I've received a cider kit for a birthday present after putting my buckets in the loft a few years ago. I've just put the brewing sugar and contents of the tin in the brewing bucket and plan on transferring either to a pressure barrel or to a second bucket. The reason I don't always transfer to...

Well at least I didn't get this:

but no one ever replies to me :(

Just drink faster! ;)

I had a moment of clarity, and realised that several months ago when sealing my pressure barrel I forgot to add any priming sugar. That being said, there was a very small amount of gas from some slow activity. The beer which is ginger flavoured brown ale \ bitter is nice but flat. I...

No... but it would do if it was "sugar beat"

Here it can mean you ate to much, but more often, if you are "STUFFED" it's likely you've been "shafted", oooh thyer's another one. Being "stuffed" can mean you are "up the shoot without a paddle" :) or to coin a phrase, "you are brewing but the yeast is off and someone pissed in your wort".

LOL! On the bog???

Getting caned over here means getting off your head. :)

Damn, does anyone there in the U.S. know what "getting caned" means? ;)

Toss the yeast? I didn't get where I am today by tossing things out in the trash!!! :O

Could get totally caned on it! ;)

The funny thing is I opened the yeast and it looks good. It says on the pot it is for wine making and brewing, so is there such a thing as a "general" yeast? It is dried into small balls which looks dry and it smells.... "yeasty" yeah LOL What about Yest Nutrient. (Diammonium Phosphate with...

OK, but are any of these wine making ingredients useful in beer making?

Hi all, I bought the following items off a wine brewer in the hopes there was some steriliser in the bucket, but the steriliser was empty. I do, however, have all this wine brewing kit and it is all just about to go out of date, so I am curious... has anyone used any component of this stuff...