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i would like to make some apple cider and some recipies say to use cider yeast and some just say yeast. Where would i find cider yeast and could i just use baking yeast? and for elderflower wine the recepies say you need brewers yeast but can i just use baking yeast? Thank You, Sam

I also have a jack lalanne juicer :D I will use that then. So to make cider I will have to: 1. Get some apples 2. Quarter them and put them in my jack lalanne juicer 3. Put the juice in a sterilised bucket 4. Add the yeast 5. Pour into a demijohn 6. Let it ferment for a month 7. Bottle...

I made a hydrometer from a straw with plasticine at the end and 2 nails inside and floated it in water, then in my bottled elderflower wine and it floated alot higher in the wine. I heard that this means there is no alcohol in it. Is this true? And have i failed? It was supposed to be alcoholic...

Hello everyone, I heard from alot of sites that to make cider you have to puree then press the apples but could i just use my fruit juicer? I also wanted to know if it would be a good idea to buy apples for cider making from a supermarket as it is winter where i live and that is the only way i...

Hello everyone, I have recently bottled some elderflower wine and was wondering how i could test the percentage of alcohol volume in it like there is on the side of a bottle of wine. I heard that you should measure it with a hydrometer before you add the yeast, and then after but I did not...