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Hi Guys, I decided to experiment with trying to make mead. I tracked down a rhubarb mead recipe off the web somewhere and gave it a shot. The recipe was along the lines off: 1Kg Honey 5L Water 1Kg Rhubard Yeast (it said champagne yeast but all I could get my hands on was white wine...

In that case I think I'll shelve this project, give the "Starsan" method a try and get back to trying to come up with a quicker way to fill the bottles :) Is Starsan a brand name ? Is there a chemical name for the stuff ? I'm in Australia so I don't know if it will be called the same...

I am pretty new to home brewing after receiving the kit as a gift. It came with a container of "Brewchlor" which I presume is some sort of brewing bleach. The instructions on the bottle read along the lines of. "Put one cap full in a bottle half filled with water, shake vigorously (the bottle...

Yea, it would be good to hear if anybody out there is using their dishwasher to sanitise the bottles, could save me having to try and re-invent the wheel...

I had thought of the dishwasher idea (I normally put the bottles in the dishwasher as I use them, before storing them) but would a normal cycle really sanitise the bottles ? I reckon if I put the sanitising agent in the dishwasher and it corroded something or ended up breaking the dishwasher...

This is a very rough drawing of what I have in mind. This would be enclosed in a sort of box with say around 15 bottles per level. Each level would be attached to the back bone water supply with flexible hose so you can pull it out to stack bottles. To use you would fill the reservoir...

PVC piping is what I had in mind, the main area I am not sure about is what sort of pump to use. I am thinking I will see what sort of pump I can get my hands on cheaply and go from there.....

Hi Guys, I am thinking of trying to build some sort of bottle washer. My Idea is to construct a tree with pipe similar to a drying rack. With one end attached to a pump, this will pump liquid through the tree into each bottle. To use I am thinking: 1) Pump Sterilising fluid into the...

If you are going to add something to flavour the beer what is the difference between adding it to the primary or secondary fermenter ?

Hi Folks, Sorry to ask another secondary fermenter question, I know it seems to pop up all the time on this forum. I am on my third batch of home brew. The first two batches I just left in the fermenter for two weeks and bottled via the tap on the end of the fermentor. For first attempts...

Hi Folks, I am pretty new to Home brewing. What I find is that by the time I get home from work and do the fatherly thing there is not much time left for looking after the really important things in life like my home brew. I find the process of sterilising the bottles, priming and...

Thanks for the relpy. I took a Hydrometer reading last night and I'm going to do another one tonight to see if it's still fermenting. Finger crossed...

Hi Folks, I am new to homebrewing. Last week I put a batch into the fermentor. I used a Toothies Can with Coopers brewing sugar. It says to leave it for about a week. It was a warm day when I put the bew on and after I mixed everything in the fermentor the temperature stayed at 34...