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Hi Folks, Do any of you know of a product for quickly dispensing the correct amount of sugar into the bottles when bottling. I usually bottle into the 350ml bottles so for each brew I have 60+ bottles. Last time I was bottling I was thinking that if there was some sort of gun type apparatus...

Hi Folks, Last night I opened a beer that I bottled about three weeks ago. It was as flat as a lizard drinking (and very sweet)... I reckon what has happen is that it's getting cold this side of the planet, I have an immersion heater in my fermenter but there is no heater in the shed. So I...

I posted this on the recipes forum and got no takers so I'll give it a try here.... I am new to home brew so forgive me if the following seems like a daft idea.... I was making some mulled wine the other evening (I usually just bake an orange studded with cloves, add a liter of wine 1/2...

Hi Guys, I put a beer kit into my fermenter last night. I have fitted a heating element with a thermostat into the fermenter and I have it set to maintain the temp. at about 24 degrees. When I went in to check on it this morning the temp was 28 degrees. At some stage during the process I...

I was bottling the other day when I ran out of ordinary white sugar. I decided to use caster sugar as this is just a finer sugar right ? Today (4 days later) something just dawned on me, have I crated 60 bottle bombs? Will the finer sugar mean there is more sugar in the bottles and hence...

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...

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...

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...

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...