Recent content by rookie-brewer

the recipe was given to me by the old lady next door it said to boil but no time so I decided on 60mins as from what ive read most worts are that long boiled could probably knock that back abit ? yes you guys are right og was 1.050 not 0.050 and its currently at 1.040 should I re pitch with...

recipe: 1.5kg sugar 400gm raisins 5 table spoons fresh ginger root grated juce of 8 lemons method: 1.grate ginger ad one cup of the sugar to a pot and a cup of water add ginger and heat until sugar is devolved allow to steep for 2-3hrs 2.add the rest of the ingredients to your boil pot and...

brewing some ginger beer this is the 2nd batch 1st batch came out fine at about 6.5-7%ABV only change is I changed yeast from us-05 to copper tun ginger beer yeast I saw it in the shop and thought why not give it ago since I'm making ginger beer I made the wort on Sunday night and pitched...

Yeah i agree you can't buy still cider/perry over here so never had it like that so ill be sticking with a carbonated version I do understand what the man is saying and don't disagree im just not used to haveing it any other way than carbonated

sweet as its 24c-27c here at the moment so will have to cool some how ill think about that before I start thanks

fantastic info mate looks like ill need more than one fermenter good excuse to get another I geuss :rockin: just one question the last part when you say keep cold do you mean like in the fridge?

nope missed it just seen it now as i scrolled down to check this thread will have a read now though

Never made cider before but i have found a good source of seconds pears which are not good enough for market but fine for juicing /cider makeing i prefer pear cider to Apple anyway so that suits me just fine watched a couple of vids on YouTube and it seems like its just juice sugar and yeast...

hi guys just starting out with home brew and I thought id find a forum to join as I am on a few other forums for other hobbies and its normally a great source of info as the title says I'm from Auckland new Zealand :mug: