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Hey there. 1 week ago i bottled my cider - made from cloudy apple juice and elderflower extract. Everything seemed to be going well, as well as the 2 other brews i bottled at the same time - a short mead and a braggot. However, today, i looked at the cider and saw a weird wispy stuff...

Well... just had my very first homebrew disaster... Used a recipe i have done many a time before - a very simple strawberry wine made from cheap supermarket jam. Before i get into the gory details here was my method: In a large bowl, scoop out 6 jars of the cheapest strawberry jam you can...

Hey there, Just wanted to get a second opinion on this cider recipe i wanna try - Gonna use Champagne yeast to get a nice high ABV. 4 Litres Apple Juice 330g Honey 200g Dark Muscovado Sugar 1 TSP Pectolase 1 TSP Yeast Nutrient. Just gonna throw them all into a DJ with the champagne...

Hi! I recently made a batch of dark beer - my own recipe, hard to class as any type of beer - I'd say stout or porter but thats beside the point. My problem is - I had some issues when i bottled it: 1. Due to a broken syphon - i had to transfer my brew to another vessel which had a tap before...

Hey there! I've just opened a bottle of the first beer i've ever made not from a kit or recipe - my own design! In all honesty i thought it was really good - not a perfect beer, but i've enjoyed all 2l of the stuff that was in that bottle :) So, i decided to share the recipe here incase...

Hi there! I recently had a bottle of a really good Japanese Black Lager. I'm wanting to try to make one, but I'm completely lost as to how i make sure my brew is a Lager and not an Ale. Is it to do with the Malts used, the yeast, Fermentation Temp, or a Mix of those? I know this is prob...

Hi! I just got my hands on an old 50 litre glass Carboy! WOO! Very cheap at an auction. Gonna give it a good old clean and get rid of all the dust and other crap thats inside it. I had a thought that i would try to make a quick and cheap cider for the summer while i had this - so how...

Hi! I just got my hands on an old 50 litre glass Carboy! WOO! Very cheap at an auction. Gonna give it a good old clean and get rid of all the dust and other crap thats inside it. I had a thought that i would try to make a quick and cheap cider for the summer while i had this - so how...

Made this recipe as a challenge essentially and it ended up being brilliant!! if you want to give my oat beer a go, go ahead, just be warned, its a bit tedious to do, but sooo worth it in the end! This was my recipe: (5 UK gallon/25l batch) 2kg oats 1 pound honey 1 pound Wheat Dry...

Hi there. OK Long story short, i was trying to bottle my batch of beer. It was i a 25l bucket, no tap, so i used a siphon tube - apart from the fact that this new one that arrived (Im at a flat at university - important) had a huge gash in the side and was useless. So, instead, i poured, very...

Hello there everyone! I have come up with this recipe I want to try with stuff i have in my cupboard (I am a student and i want to make use of everything i have with no waste). 1 Pound Black treacle 1 Pound Honey 1 Pound Golden Syrup 1 Pound Rasins 1 Pound Dried Apricots I plan to...

Hey there! I recently made a big batch of beer and had 500g of dark spray malt left over. So, i thought i might as well make a small batch to use it up. I added 1 can (454g) of black treacle and the spray malt to a few litres of water and had a hop bag with my leftover hops in there boiling...

Hey there! I recently made a big batch of beer and had 500g of dark spray malt left over. So, i thought i might as well make a small batch to use it up. I added 1 can (454g) of black treacle to a few litres of water and had a hop bag with my leftover hops in there boiling away. However i...

Hi there. I recently made 25l of beer from a brupaks kit. It all went well until i put it into a pressure keg. I added 200g of sugar (too much i know but i misread the label :S) to the keg and siphoned the beer into it after 1 week of fermentation in the bucket. The keg was only about 2/3 full...

Hey there! I have been making a bunch of "unusual" wines recently. These are the flavors I have on the go: Banana Kiwi Cherry Prune Elderflower Tropical Now - before racking, 2 of these wines were amazingly clear - the Banana and Kiwi, You could just about read print through them. So...

Hey there! I have just brewed a batch of cider using 21 litres of Pure Clear apple juice, 5kg of granulated sugar and a sachet of Alcotec 48 Turbo Yeast. The fermentation went perfectly, however it has turned very opaque. I left it for a week after fermentation and nothing really happened. So...