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- Sat Mar 13, 2010 8:00 pm
- Forum: Home Brew and other Country Skills
- Topic: Looking for real GBP to start my own brew
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1971
Re: Looking for real GBP to start my own brew
From what I've read about Ginger Beer Plants it's just regular ginger and sugar and yeast, there's nothing special about them and they require no specialised kit to start. The plant of the above statement refers to the 'industrial' kind of plant and not the 'growing' type, I can see where it would b...
- Sat Mar 13, 2010 7:50 pm
- Forum: Home Brew and other Country Skills
- Topic: Re-Capping Beer Bottles.
- Replies: 7
- Views: 3197
Re: Re-Capping Beer Bottles.
Agreed, the act of opening them causes the caps to be deformed and therefore they never seal right again, the screw ones might be ok but I wouldn't bother with them. If your bottles contained fizzy drinks then they should be fine for beer, even the plastic PET bottles are usable as long as you don't...
- Tue Oct 13, 2009 12:23 pm
- Forum: Home Brew and other Country Skills
- Topic: Ish beer question
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2053
Re: Ish beer question
Bear in mind that the bitterness and hopiness will mellow over time as your beer matures!
- Tue Oct 13, 2009 12:20 pm
- Forum: Home Brew and other Country Skills
- Topic: woops its a bit fizzy
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2480
Re: woops its a bit fizzy
If they were full of beer then they'll be fine for fizzy wine but Like MKG says your best off releasing the excess gas now and enjoy the wine in a few months.
- Tue Oct 13, 2009 12:11 pm
- Forum: Home Brew and other Country Skills
- Topic: Home Brew web site please.
- Replies: 11
- Views: 4927
Re: Home Brew web site please.
I have to admit to being one of the top posters on that forum, it's full of very helpful people like me :DGreenbeast wrote:http://www.brew-it-yourself.co.uk
that's who i use, they also have an attached forum, that might prove useful
- Tue Oct 13, 2009 11:54 am
- Forum: Home Brew and other Country Skills
- Topic: Cherry Plum & Crab Apple Overload
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2601
Re: Cherry Plum & Crab Apple Overload
If you make it all into jam now you can make it into wine later with the jam instead of the sugar and fruit ;)
- Tue Oct 13, 2009 11:53 am
- Forum: Home Brew and other Country Skills
- Topic: Those unripe plums ...
- Replies: 8
- Views: 5699
Re: Those unripe plums ...
Wish I'd seen this earlier
If you want to ripen any fruit stick it near a Banana and it'll ripen faster then a whippet with diarrhoea going to the loo ;)
If you want to ripen any fruit stick it near a Banana and it'll ripen faster then a whippet with diarrhoea going to the loo ;)
- Tue Oct 13, 2009 11:48 am
- Forum: Home Brew and other Country Skills
- Topic: fisrts attempt at wine
- Replies: 12
- Views: 3883
Re: fisrts attempt at wine
If you take a specific Gravity reading just before you add the yeast then another specific gravity reading when it's finished fermenting you can calculate the ABV% with a simple calculation...jampot wrote:its also *quite* strong ( i have no idea of the %) woohoo
(O.G - F.G) / 7.36 = ABV%
- Tue Oct 13, 2009 11:45 am
- Forum: Home Brew and other Country Skills
- Topic: wine, where do I start??
- Replies: 15
- Views: 7073
Re: wine, where do I start??
When I was in my late teens Dad used to make a thick port like wine, I now he used to double ferment, anddouble ferment with brandy added. I too fancy making a port like wine, can anyone suggest how I would go about this? Thanks, Sue Best way to do this is to keep testing your wine for sweetness wh...
- Tue Oct 13, 2009 11:34 am
- Forum: The ish Local - (Chat)
- Topic: answering emails
- Replies: 16
- Views: 3809
Re: answering emails
Hello there , I was just wondering , am I a moaning idiot ? or is it not me ? I frequently send emails to people around europe , friends , buisness people , all sorts . They don't respond to my emails the same day , is that normal ? or should I give them more time ? They don't respond to my emails ...
- Sat Aug 15, 2009 8:03 pm
- Forum: Home Brew and other Country Skills
- Topic: Wine form cordial
- Replies: 20
- Views: 10661
Re: Wine form cordial
As long as the cordial you are using has no preservatives in then yes you can make wine out of it, if there are preservatives in there you may be able to boil them out but I prefer not to bother with them myself. My method... Make a red wine from grape juice or a basic kit. Top up with cordial and p...
- Tue Jul 28, 2009 3:27 pm
- Forum: Home Brew and other Country Skills
- Topic: What no update Andy?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1746
What no update Andy?
http://www.selfsufficientish.com/index. ... -pear-wine
It's summer already, don't tell me you forgotten to try this
It's summer already, don't tell me you forgotten to try this
- Tue Jul 28, 2009 1:43 pm
- Forum: Herbs and Vegetables
- Topic: Butternut Squash
- Replies: 22
- Views: 4623
Re: Butternut Squash
We just put out squash seedlings (:lol: they are almost 2 foot tall!) into type planters this weekend, fingers crossed they don't die from the move outside.
- Tue Jul 28, 2009 1:31 pm
- Forum: Home Brew and other Country Skills
- Topic: Pick apples now for homebrew?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1817
Re: Pick apples now for homebrew?
If you pick them early (pulp then freeze to keep long term) they'll end up being sour but later you could add them to a super sweet batch and make a nice medium dry cider ;)
- Tue Jul 28, 2009 1:29 pm
- Forum: Home Brew and other Country Skills
- Topic: Cleaning old demijohns
- Replies: 7
- Views: 3116
Re: Cleaning old demijohns
probably less flat