Recent content by Bill_C

Thanks for the replies. I'll stick with the air locks as that is what I have. I transposed the number 67 off the box. It says it will make 67 bottles of 341ml bottles of beer. That should come out to about 6 gallons.

I have my own apple orchard and have been making and canning my own soft cider for years. I have never had a jar go bad or blow up. I generally can almost 200 quarts a year for my own use. Season to season I generally have about 12 quarts left over. I have just started making hard cider from...

Hi, I am going to be starting my first brew in a few weeks after my wine is racked and my carboys are free again. I chose for my first try a Pilsner beer kit from 'Brewers Spring'. The kit contains: one bag of extract, 1 pkg of yeast, a pkg of hops and a package of bentonite and a pkg of...

I have just bottled my first batch. More reading and research than anything so far. I completed and bottled 11 litres of hard cider. After sitting in the bottles for two weeks it is not bad, but flat. Is there a rule of thumb for how much corn sugar to add, when bottling, per litre to get a...

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