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dandelion wine - remove as much green as you can from the flowers, only use the flower heads - a bit of green won't matter, but try to minimize it as much as possible.

not the basics tins, but a basics (or just cheap quality, poorly made) tin oppener usually last me about a week before breaking. Save up and pay more for an expensive one that's rugged and well made, and will last for more than 10 uses (or use a good old multi use pen knife)

just a quick question - what kind of yeast are you using? any yeast will work, but there are specific yeast for specific things, so cider, champagne, red wine, white wine, ale, bread, etc, etc. all have yeasts that work for that specific application. you wouldn't use champagne yeast to make bread, s...

cool thanks - I'll see what I can get on the way home.

[edit to add] - found the copper beech, but thought that the taste of the leaves was too bitter, so went with another tree just down the road. picked a quarter carrier bag full, and they're now under gin in a jar in the cupboard.

it's good that you've continued so long. I would recommend noting down as much information as you can remember and then going to a specialist wine/home brew forum (like for instance www . thehomebrewforum . co . uk ) - I admit that I'm a member there, and have had lots of very good advice, and every...

you could stop the fermentation early, so it's still sweet, and then force carbonate, either in pressure vessel with CO2 gas (sparklet) or by the bottle in a soda stream type way. otherwise, once fermentation is finished, bottle into either pop bottles that have had pressure before or screw top wine...

Hi there, I've just joined the forum. I have the Booze for Free book, which has a recipe for beech leaf noyau - I'm struggling to identify beech trees. I've just planted a beech hedge in my front garden however I don't want to take the leaves off these trees as they're small and I don't want to risk...

Hi there, My name is 'Crastney' I'm in London, I enjoy making homebrew, I got Andy Hamilton's book 'Booze for free' for Christmas. I'm a member of TheHomeBrewForum online as well, so I'll mostly be on here in the homebrew section, and possibly foraging, Gardening and DIY sections too (or those that ...