Recent content by NormCastles

Another +1 for České Budějovice - it's a beautiful place, has good beer and easy train trip from Prague. Has a pretty cool castle too. Plzen was a bit drab for me but the beer is good. Prague will be full of annoying tourists get out to a small town and experience the joy of cheap good beer that...

Thanks Dave, I did as instructed and it cleared up very nicely. Ended up adding 1L of pear juice (goulburn valley preservative free) which was around 5% of batch volume. Tasted good, especially considering its 8%, i will report back in a couple of weeks once bottle carbonated. Froma bit of...

Hi all, my first cider has been in the fermenter for 11 days and is down from 1060 to 1002 so I assume it is about to bottom out (around 18deg). Recipe as follows: Blackrock cider kit incl yeast 6L preservative free apple juice Approx 3L (6kg) organic grannies (through the juicer whole) 1kg...