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Hi, I've been making wine from kits for around eight years now so I'd thought I'd have a go at some beer. It all seemed to be fairly straight forward but then my pressure barrel started leaking from the tap. First question... Having transferred the beer back to the fermentor to be able to add...

Hi, I put on a Cellar7 Malbec on 21st November thinking I’d have a quick supply of red to keep me going. It did nothing for over a week despite a constant 24C so I put 5g of Wilkos wine yeast in it and it started to ferment. Presumably the Wilkos yeast isn’t as aggressive as the 7day yeast as I...

Hi, I‘ve had the above on since Sunday. It‘s in my bathroom, the temperature has been between 23 and 25C but there’s been no movement in the air lock all week. I did think it was a temperature problem so I bought a stick-on thermometer - it’s reading 24C so I’m not sure. My initial reading...

Hi, I was clearing out our spare room yesterday and realised that I’d started a wine kit last year and forgotten all about it! The kit is a Beaverdale 6 bottle white wine. I stated fermenting it and then left it as it is - it’s in a glass demijohn with an airlock. I still have the sachets of...