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god, was storing the sake in one of these bad boys opened it for a test drive to see what it was like and the thing shot open like champagne must have started fermenting last night XD

hehe, feck should have gone the extra mile for the dunnes stuff. After buying a few lidl ones now newho. Will update on progress. Sake is doing o.k. at the moment apart from the small amounts of mold on the rice Reply from James's Gate:

cheers guys! Yeh was thinking of doing fermented apple juice from the stuff you get in Lidl supermarket. Will post some pics of the Sake over the next few days (its got this mold - not sure if its good or bad). In the meanwhile u can take a peek at the tutorial ive tried to make using the stuff...

yeh theres some sake here but its got some darkish mold on the sides. not sure if its the koji(Aspergillus oryzae) or just bad mold. am working on getting that chinese thing translated

Paper never refuses ink. Was it really necessary to post twice mcbrew? Shawn Hargreaves - Would koji work on starch in oats as well as rice? There are no places for homebrew supplies around here so I have to make do with what there is. No local shops sell malt, need to go online shopping. Any...

Im not very experienced at brewing. Would it work say if boiled 500g of rolled oats mixed in a smallish jar of honey put it in a 1gal demiJ filled rest with water added yeast. Was going to use sake brewing yeast for breaking down the starch but read that if you boil the oats the sugars are...

hehe, ridiculous you say? :P well it couldn't do any harm aiiit, thanks alot for feedback!

anyone wanna make a guesstimate?

a kitchen lighter :O ! u should know what that is at least! http://www.mobilitystore.co.uk/catalogue/images/imagecache/GasLighter2.JPG its a lighter with a really long neck you can put it fully into the demijohn and burn up the oxygen - that way it wont rot! Gorse looks like this...

For starters its my first time brewing anything. I had recently bought a self-sufficiency book and it talked about brewing etc so I bought my first demijohn last week! Having decided to make wine by badly following a recipe in the book here I am. 4.5 litres of water 3 oranges 3 lemons...