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The CAMRA book brew your own British Real ale is good and has couple of Marstons recipes. Pedigree is a good choice which uses Fuggles & Golding hops and gives recipe for either full mash or malt extract . In the malt extract version you replace the pale malt with the specified quantity of extract.

Didn't like the idea of adding bentonite as that was the clay added to drilling mud when I worked on oil rigs. Somehow just doesn't seem right to put mud in my wine. Think I can see signs of it clearing (or perhaps being hopeful) so may wait awhile and try filtration.

Not a wine kit but grapes rescued from a vine in my folks garden before the winter frost set in. Recipe from one of those 1970's wine & brew bibles gathering dust on the bookshelf. Stopped fermentation and stabilised at 1006 with a couple of campden tablets then racked and left for 8weeks...

Making a demijohn of rosé it was a bit hazy prior to 2nd Racking (8weeks after first racking) so added finings which crystal cleared it over a week and also filtered it. Thought I'd add a campden tablet (Youngs) whilst it matured and immediately it went cloudy. If the haze doesn't clear within a...