Wilfy
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I made a plum wine with fruit from the tree we had at the last house. Wasn’t the best but got me pissed!
Homebrewing - Part 3
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Hue Jorgan
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my top tips are
steralize everything cleanliness is key
dont use granulated sugar use brewing sugar
when bottling one level teaspoon of brewing sugar in each bottle carbonates the brew lovely
beer finings added to the brew before bottlin, give u a lovely clear brew
indid a lovely hefe wheat brew with 1kg wheat malt three chopped up oranges and 100gms of dried coriander, tastes just like blue moon
might have a look up. Whereabouts are they now?
It’s at Houghton business centre. Just at houghton cut
Right so how do I know when it’s ready?
It’s been going since Friday and is still bubbling away. One bubble every 12 seconds or so. I get that the longer it ferments the more alcoholic it is, but also the less sweet it is. I don’t want it too dry. How do I know when to stop?
(PS I forgot to do the hydrometer thing at the start).
It’s been going since Friday and is still bubbling away. One bubble every 12 seconds or so. I get that the longer it ferments the more alcoholic it is, but also the less sweet it is. I don’t want it too dry. How do I know when to stop?
(PS I forgot to do the hydrometer thing at the start).
the hydrometer thing at the start isnt that much of an issue, you'll just not be able to accurately measure how much alcohol is in it when it's finished. You measure gravity before you start fermenting, and when you're finished. The difference is how much sugar has been turned to alcohol. You'll just have to guess by how pissed it gets you
You want to let the yeast do it's work. Especially if you're bottling it, because if you bottle it up before it's finished and add more sugar to carbonate the bottles will go bang. How sweet/dry it's going to be is all pretty much determined by the stuff you started with. Let the yeast rip through it and finish fermenting. Wait until it stops bubbling, give it a few days after that, then take hydrometer readings 24 hours apart - you're looking for the reading to be the same to say the fermentation is finished.
I’d leave it a week to ten days and then take a reading. If you find it’s too dry you can always backsweeten it with sugar free sweetener.
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All bottled tonight. Sugar drops in, and ready to wait now.
Good news: it actually tastes okay, despite it looking like muddy water...
Bad news: I have a whole couple of litres left in the bottom that’s all sediment. Is there anything I can do with that - filter it somehow? Seems a waste to Chuck it.
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All bottled tonight. Sugar drops in, and ready to wait now.
Good news: it actually tastes okay, despite it looking like muddy water...
Bad news: I have a whole couple of litres left in the bottom that’s all sediment. Is there anything I can do with that - filter it somehow? Seems a waste to Chuck it.
doubt it will filter, but you could bottle the stuff that’s left. The active yeast will eventually drop out and you’d be able to pour the clearer stuff into a new bottle.
i've got a woodfordes bure gold ready for bottling tomorrow or sunday and realised i don't have enough bottles. i have the pleasure of working down teeside way and found out there's a homebrew shop down there. called in after work and it's a brilliant shop. it's been going since the early 80's and since her husband passed away the wifey who runs it has kept it going.
tbh it was quite nice and refreshing to go into a shop and besides getting what you wanted have a great bit chat with the owner.
quite the opposite of the hard sell as well, tried her best not to sell me the bottles, kept saying how it'd be loads cheaper just to go to pubs and clubs and ask for some empties if they weren't all shut
anyway if you google 'alan's homebrew middlesbrough' you'll find it. the website's crap, it's in a rough as owt area and it's a bit of a hike for those in sunderland but worth a look if you're nearby.
also, i noticed it was cheaper than the internet.
tbh it was quite nice and refreshing to go into a shop and besides getting what you wanted have a great bit chat with the owner.
quite the opposite of the hard sell as well, tried her best not to sell me the bottles, kept saying how it'd be loads cheaper just to go to pubs and clubs and ask for some empties if they weren't all shut
anyway if you google 'alan's homebrew middlesbrough' you'll find it. the website's crap, it's in a rough as owt area and it's a bit of a hike for those in sunderland but worth a look if you're nearby.
also, i noticed it was cheaper than the internet.
Aye work in Boro. Cracking little place.i've got a woodfordes bure gold ready for bottling tomorrow or sunday and realised i don't have enough bottles. i have the pleasure of working down teeside way and found out there's a homebrew shop down there. called in after work and it's a brilliant shop. it's been going since the early 80's and since her husband passed away the wifey who runs it has kept it going.
tbh it was quite nice and refreshing to go into a shop and besides getting what you wanted have a great bit chat with the owner.
quite the opposite of the hard sell as well, tried her best not to sell me the bottles, kept saying how it'd be loads cheaper just to go to pubs and clubs and ask for some empties if they weren't all shut
anyway if you google 'alan's homebrew middlesbrough' you'll find it. the website's crap, it's in a rough as owt area and it's a bit of a hike for those in sunderland but worth a look if you're nearby.
also, i noticed it was cheaper than the internet.
i've got a woodfordes bure gold ready for bottling tomorrow or sunday and realised i don't have enough bottles. i have the pleasure of working down teeside way and found out there's a homebrew shop down there. called in after work and it's a brilliant shop. it's been going since the early 80's and since her husband passed away the wifey who runs it has kept it going.
tbh it was quite nice and refreshing to go into a shop and besides getting what you wanted have a great bit chat with the owner.
quite the opposite of the hard sell as well, tried her best not to sell me the bottles, kept saying how it'd be loads cheaper just to go to pubs and clubs and ask for some empties if they weren't all shut
anyway if you google 'alan's homebrew middlesbrough' you'll find it. the website's crap, it's in a rough as owt area and it's a bit of a hike for those in sunderland but worth a look if you're nearby.
also, i noticed it was cheaper than the internet.
I tend to do kits just for convenience, all grains a full day job.
Generally get them from Wilko or the range, but popped into the one at houghton a few weeks back.
Similar experience, the owner was chatty, no hard sell, spent about 70 quid, I compared this against an online shop and the difference was about 3 quid.
I’m going to make a point of getting my stuff from there in future, keep local businesses going.
Do they sell online?
Cracked open the first batch of cider after six weeks. Not as fizzy as I thought but not bad at all!
No idea if it’s 3% or 33%, but fuck it, it’s Christmas!
Merry Xmas all!
No idea if it’s 3% or 33%, but fuck it, it’s Christmas!
Merry Xmas all!
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Class man. You can’t beat drinking something you’ve made yourself.
PTR
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That'll improve massively in about 3 months time if my experience of cider is anything to go by.
PTR
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Oh yeah, I mean any other bottles. That one needs drinking now its open.
Never believe a word you read on any "kits"
