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There is so much information you guys have given me, thank you all. I am going to be a busy bee this winter. :D

Hi, I dont have proper temp control, but I made another room out of an outhouse that only has a single brick thickness to the walls which I insulated well. I use a small1kw heater and over the winter it stays relatively warm as long as the kids remember to close the doors lol. and I have...

I reckon the worms have had a go at leaving before this tin was opened, lol. I am going to buy a book and read up, there is a lot of terminology in the answers to my post I don't recognise, and processes that seem similar to winemaking but probably aren't, eg who is Esther?

I think I firment quite well with the temperatures we are seeing in the UK at the moment, I do have an enviroment that gives me a constant 65 degrees which is ideal for wine which is what I do, but I would like to branch out. So what is a larger temp?

Hi guys, just to get this out the way, I don't do beer but the wife likes a nice lager, something akin to Carlsberg, Grolsh etc. I am set up for wine and don't have a clue about beer or lagers. I have used kits from the suppermarket in the past (30 years ago) but never had anything anyone finds...

Hi Gary GPNewbrew, welcome. There are lots of people on here with some good advice, have fun.

I will try again. I dont understand why but when I copy from photo box it says the photo is too large to down load, hey ho. The wine is wonderful and not sweet or dry. but your going to have to take my word on that.

I suppose it is wine if it is enclosed while firmentation continues, yet I am open to correction as I have yet to make cider but that isn't why this post. Before time began or before I even knew what a hydromiter looked like, I found a book in the library ''idiot proof brewing'' I had had a go...

You have done what I did almost, I used 3 1/2 Lb of sugar per gallon, it was before I knew what I was doing and got a hydromiter, not that I know what I'm doing now, but the wine was realy good, strong but crisp and the tast of apple necter, anyway it was afantastic. So in my headlong rush to...

Hi fella, no they don't, and usually wonder why he didn't get into trouble for getting that out of it. But it's no preaching or reliious stuff on here so as I want to stay a mamber (because this forum has already sorted out two brewing problems for me) I have to be careful as its a big part of...

Northumberland is close enough, lol. If only wifes were as simple as that, she wouldn't believe me if I told her that :no: and as far as keeping traditions alive, Ill go the other way and start the beggars so this one sounds good, tradition states that; "all fruit from every garden is for the...

I only use fresh fruit, I get about 4 demijohns of apple wine and two of rosehip. I do have a small but compact fruit garden and since starting to make wine all of a sudden everyone likes fruit, we got the children potty trained with raspberries, "use the potty and you can have another...

Thank you, you have done it again, lol, I was looking at the ones on Amazon and wondering how to use them, it is certainly something I will look into, Thank you.

Hi, not to be rude but 'suck it and see'. I am getting the impression that using only pure juice from fruit is where I need to be but it aint. For my apple wine (my missus recons I make over strong flat cider) I use 5lb of apples liquadised and put into a 5ltr pan with just under 1 ltr of...

Hi, I am glad you are sorted out, I wasn't kidding with my last post, never heard of painters bags, I actually put another thread in here to find out lol. Making wine has become my hidaway hobby, or "It's mine"! it is the only time I am left alone with only scowling looks of "You better clean...

I thought it was something like how you guys describe it, we don't go in for spraying paint much over this side of the pond, specialist car resprayers etc but not so much anyone else. The bags from Amazon look good though, I would need a support to hold them. I recon I need a designated area...

Please what is a paint bag? what do they look like and what do they do? I use a container a seive and some muslin if I need it, what and how do paint bags work? what are they called? In the UK it means nothing, paint bag?????

Realy realy sorry, I am all but new to this site as well, welcome Jenny P, Happy brewing :-D

I love the education of this site, sorry guys I dont want to run away with the thread but what is a 'paint bag'? o_O When I first rack from my 25ltr into demijohns I use a mug:coff4: and the small plastic strainer from the kitchen draw and a funnel, a spoon to help scrape the strainer and a bowl...

There is more to mead than meets the eye, lol, it's a begger. I have just bottled my first 'Bonfire Night' mead with black treacle, and it tastes sort of OK, a bit young yet and a bit of a beer taste to it, but hopefully ready for November, and about for halloween. Elsewise, welcom, they are a...