Homebrewing - Part 3

Been cleaning my shed out today and found 3 cases of elderflower and 2 cases of lager that was brewed in match 2013! Is 18months in the bottle going to give an off flavour or an awesome flavour?
 


Local Lad said:
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Not sure i its been said before but can you use steradent to sterilise? ran out of Steriliser today! :(
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Try Milton

Anyone heard of the southwark brewing company? 18 Sunderland London branch members and mates on an industrial scale.

PTR said:
Did anyone see my question about my IPA - Should the plastic bottles go solid like they do for ciders/lagers?

As they're not. After 3 weeks.
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Yes. Your conditioning will still produce co2.

Farralad said:
Just on a wilkos hoppy copper bitter. It's not bad but tastes a bit like John smiths. had better and cheaper ones from the local hb shop. Better brew IPA, had far more flavour.

Might brew me next Wilko one short.

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Try it with 1kg of dark malt. It makes a cheap brew taste expensive
 
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dixonsafc said:
Found a load of blackberries and apples yesterday, anyone got any recipes for scrumpy/cider or blackberry wine?

Apples are quite sour, but taste great. Not sure if they are good for cider? But fancy giving it a go, absolutely shit loads of apple trees I found while out with the dog.
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I just boiled about 5lb blackberries and added 1kg of sugar for my wine. It was a slow fermenter and I opened the first bottle on Saturday and it is very good. Been bottled for about 6 months.

I am going to attempt a scrumpy this week using apples from the tree at work. No idea if I need to add any sugar but will do a bit of research before I do.
 
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Wilfy said:
I just boiled about 5lb blackberries and added 1kg of sugar for my wine. It was a slow fermenter and I opened the first bottle on Saturday and it is very good. Been bottled for about 6 months.

I am going to attempt a scrumpy this week using apples from the tree at work. No idea if I need to add any sugar but will do a bit of research before I do.
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Shouldnt need to if they wind falls.
 
Reet, am going to set me plum wine away tonight. I have a recipe that involves the whole fruit and takes a fair bit of work. Will the wine turn out as well if I just juice all the plums and hoy it in a demijohn as normal?
 
Wilfy said:
Reet, am going to set me plum wine away tonight. I have a recipe that involves the whole fruit and takes a fair bit of work. Will the wine turn out as well if I just juice all the plums and hoy it in a demijohn as normal?
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Dunno but I squeezed the life out of rhubarb pulp and the wine is canny cloudy, apparently that's a side effect of squeezing rhubarb.

It may not matter if the plum wine is red, but it's probably worth a quick google
 
anth said:
Been cleaning my shed out today and found 3 cases of elderflower and 2 cases of lager that was brewed in match 2013! Is 18months in the bottle going to give an off flavour or an awesome flavour?
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Cleared the garage today and found 2 bottles of 2 year old Irish stout. Absolute nectar. :cool:
 
Been on the Elderberry Wine a fair bit this last week, the ones I nabbed a load of last year from Tesco, at something daft like £2 for a 6 bottle kit. It's a really nice brew and along with Cherry wine has kept me nicely plastered.

A re,minder that Wilkos are still doing a few cheapish brews.

Wherry is £14.25 and Wilkos Real Ale/Golden Ale are £12.75.
Being two can kits they of course don't need brewing sugar so well worth getting.
Having said that the Wilkos brewing sugar is currently only £1.50 so worth stocking up anyway.
 
New sugar in the Sunderland wilko today. The wife was kind enough to get me a Wherry kit and a 30 bottle white wine kit. Just juiced 4lb of plums and boiled the juice up with 1kg of sugar. Just waiting for the mix to cool down so I can hoy the yeast in.
 
Wilfy said:
New sugar in the Sunderland wilko today. The wife was kind enough to get me a Wherry kit and a 30 bottle white wine kit. Just juiced 4lb of plums and boiled the juice up with 1kg of sugar. Just waiting for the mix to cool down so I can hoy the yeast in.
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about time, shelves have been empty for about 3 weeks

Wilfy said:
Reet, am going to set me plum wine away tonight. I have a recipe that involves the whole fruit and takes a fair bit of work. Will the wine turn out as well if I just juice all the plums and hoy it in a demijohn as normal?
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My plum wine, is 1.8kg of plums, jar of honey & 1kg of sugar
Got 4 gallon on the go, 2 red & 2 yellow.
 

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