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Hi everyone, Around a month or so ago I used a strawberry wine making kit for the first time and it was during the last of the humid weather we had here in the UK. This seemed to fast track fermentation and at the bottling stage is tasted very high in vinegar. I have left it at room temp...

Hi everyone, I posted in another thread today that the ginger beer I made is potentally infected as the lids of the kegs popped off late last night exposing to open air and possibly fruit flies. As you can imagine I am pretty gutted especially as I am new to brewing and want to enjoy my...

Hi everyone, Over the last week or so I have lovingly spent time making a home brew ginger beer using a kit and yesterday was kegging day. I used some new mini kegs and I did think the lids to them looked a little flimsy but hey as a first time what was I to know. I came down this morning...

Hi everyone! I have recently been fermenting a citrus type of mead with tangerines and honey that on the first rack this week has almost reached the bottling stage. Can mead with fruit in particular citrus ferment super quick like this or could something have gone wrong? Temperature has been...

Hi everyone! I am relatively new to home brewing and I recently used a fruit teabag recipe to make a sweet fruit wine as I figured if I start cheaply if I mess it up then it is not a huge deal. Anyway I followed the recipe to the T which included 1.5kg of sugar, fruit teabags and wine yeast...

Hi everyone, I am new to brewing and I am currently fermenting a dark ale that has an equal amount of malt to sugar as per the instructions. I have taken hydrometer tests everyday as per the instructions and now things have slowed right down. I seem to be stuck now just before the bottling...