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The only thing that will be accomplished by demands such as this is the increased taxation on wine. There will never be a reduction in alcohol tax for beer.

I'm going to throw out what may be an unpopular option re: beer excise. Anyone who has opened a brewery has done so knowing full well what the situation is regarding beer excise in this country. Don't go and open a brewery and then complain about it, you knew what you were getting into...

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Well that's disappointing, there were certain things one could only get from Clever Brewing. A real shame to shut down.

Lockdown is very boring, at least I have beer to brew. Hopefully we all get set free soon, at least the kids go back to school! I've seen the cordial but have never tried it out, I just ended up using the same juice to bring the ABV down to about 4.5% and it works out to a nice flavour.

Stabilising is adding Potassium metabisulfite (K-MET) and potassium sorbate to your cider to prevent any refermentation from the new sugar source added. I recommend reading up on this as it can be tricky. K-MET additions are pH dependent and sorbate additions are ABV depenent.

People have been fermenting supermarket apple juice for ages, It will be fine. I have used saf cider yeast with Aldi apple juice many times. It will ferment totally dry (around 0.996 FG) and not taste of very much. If you backsweeten with the same apple juice that you fermented (after...

All you need to make apple cider is apple juice. The issue that you haze is that it always will ferment completely dry and will not be what you are after taste-wise. As mentioned above you will need to ‘back-sweeten’ apple cider to make it more palatable, the problem with that is any sugar...

Agree, there are always ifs and buts with everything in life. Back in my lab days, bleach was a very common sight in the tissue culture labs, it's very effective but nearly everything in those labs are disposable so no need to worry about equipment damage or seepage into plastics. For me though...

If you are going to use Starsan for some of your sanitising it makes zero sense to persist with chlorine for plastics. One day you will post on here wondering what the medicinal/band-aid off flavour in your beer is. Save yourself the trouble and ditch the chlorine. As Mark said it will penetrate...

No, didn’t do a conversion test. 🤔

Well, now that you mention it I did use Brewtan B and CaCl. That being said I always use those things and have used the same bag of rice hulls on many occasions and never has the break come out purple. I wonder what exactly changed this time around?

Typing with them right now! 😂

The purple hot break was all before I added any hops as I only did late additions with this beer. Unfortunately I didn’t take a pH reading. You can see on the pics below the post boil trub looks normal, but you can see the purplish break ring just under the 30L mark on the Grainfather.

Thanks, it’s good to know you are still alive to tell the tale! 😂 Like you, it wasn’t super purple, but more purple than you would expect. 🤔