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Howdy Folks, Brewed an Irish Red ale over the weekend. Everything went smoothly except I was under on my fermenter batch size which turned out at 19ltr instead of the 20ltr I was aiming for. Not the end of the world. Poured the wort into my fermenter via the tap on my boiler so it's got plenty...

Howdy Folks, Made up a gallon batch of elderflower mead. It turned out pretty good but I wanted to carbonate it. Recipe: 1800g Irish wildflower honey (I think - I dont have my notes) 3 liters of dried elderflower leaf tea and topped up to the gallon Mangrove Jacks Mead yeast teaspoon of...

So I've had bottles sitting up for a couple of months while it was too cold to brew. They had been drank from, rinsed and stowed away in the bottom of a wardrobe. I've a smash beer fermenting as we speak and need to sort out my bottles. I realize I probably should have rinsed, sanitized and...

Howdy folks! I've brewed a few gallon batches of mead/ciders and I've done one beer kit. You know the gloopy stuff in the can. It's all turned out pretty well and I'd like to have a go at all grain biab. I've got the 5 gallon FVs but I have one question that's holding me back. How much water...

Here's something interesting. I was visiting my local fish shop to pick up stuff for my aquarium and found this specific gravity measure. Turns out it's for measuring salinity in salt water aquariums. Wonder if it's be more or less accurate than your standard hydrometer

Thinking of doing an Apple and Raspberry mead. So far I've never made a cyser but from what I read it seems pretty simple. Just substitute the water with apple juice? I'm planning on doing about 2lb of honey, 250grams of frozen raspberries and fill to the gallon mark with apple juice? Does...

Haven't brewed anything in a few weeks because of the temps dropping. How do you guys keep your fermenters at a steady temp? I've seen the heating pads, do they work? have a mix of 1 gal and 6 gal fermenters

So I bought myself 500g dried elderflowers and some medium french toasted oak. Anybody have any decent recipes to try? Not necessarily together but recipes for both or individually? Regards, Jack

Hi folks, Brewed a gorgeous blackberry mead. Bottled on Friday and it was fabulous. However, I was hoping to keep the dark colouring given by the blackberries at the start. By time bottling came around, it was more of a pinkish Aperol colour (see photo). I thought about adding more...

Howdy folks, I've brewed a couple of meads and and ciders over the last couple of months and things are going great. Being still very much of a beginner, I was wondering - Whenever I brew a cider, OG is around 1.050-1.052 and they finish usually around 1.002ish indicating a ~6% ABV on my...

Quick one for you guys, bit of a newbie here, I have a gallon straight apple cider going at the moment. OG was 1.050 and after a week it was down 1.004 giving me a rough ABV of 6%. I've added 7oz of white sugar to boost the ABV. From what I've read, that should equate to about an extra 2% abv...

Howdy, I started a traditional mead about 4 days ago. Starting gravity was 1.102. Normally, like with my black berry mead, after the 2nd, 3rd or 4th day, the airlock is bubbling quite a bit and there is an audible fizz going on. However, with this one, I got maybe 2 hours or so of solid...

Started by first batch of anything about two months ago. An orange Blossom mead. Its actually turned out very well. Found this golden nugget of a resource through my numerous google searches looking for help. I've brewed two ciders since, one straight apple and the other is a raspberry apple...