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Some time ago I put together a Parsnip Wine. It has been sitting in my cupboard waiting to clear before bottling for the last 9 months or so, according to my records. So, as I just mentioned, it had cleared a few days ago. Consequently I put it in bottles yesterday, during the process I got...

Was out playing 8 ball tonight and I had the misfortune to decide to try a Magners. That is some nasty four letter word starting with S. Has a nasty, nasty taste, the Irish must have to suffer some manky tasting apples if thats what their cider tastes like. Anyway, nuf said.

Was just having a quick gander over some posts and reminded myself of something I discovered the other day. Firstly, I'm not a huge drinker, hence some things get to age this long at my place. But I digress, so anyway a friend came round for a tasting after learning of my cider. So I whipped...

My last two batches of mead have been sitting in the cupboard waiting to clear for a few months now and are still cloudy as, one has a little white stringy gank around the top of the demi. I tried to rack it using a racking can but it failed miserably and only succeeded in aerating one demi of...

I was reading an old post of mine regarding mead and noticed Dave had said something about one of his needing more time on the oak. Which leads me to this post. I have been perusing some 5L Barrels on ebay made from US White Oak, with a medium char. They are priced at what I consider...

Teasing title might get me a few results lol Anyway after much putting off of doing it I have gotten round to having all the ingredients at hand to put a few more batches of cider down. While I was juice shopping I noticed something on the shelf I hadn't seen before; Bickfords overpriced pure...

Greetings As the title suggests this post is about my latest brew; a mead based on some Lake Pedder Wildflower Honey I got at a local show earlier this year. Its a basic mead; honey, water, yeast, tannin, acid, nutrient. I used cy17 yeast as it was the most suitable variety I had at hand. I'll...

If life gives you lemons, make lemonade....well life gave me a boot load of apples last week so I made apple cider. As it turned out a boot load of free apples turned into a quite costly barrel of juice. Twas an angry day in the kitchen! Started off juicing the apples in my electric juicer...

For the benefit of my cider and others who go walk down the cider path. Does anyone on here have any experience in the use of tannins and malic acid or any other "tweakers" in supermarket cider; bottle juice batches? I've just put down another 46L of cider, which is plopping away quite happily...

I dont remember whether I have discussed this on here before. So anyway, after consuming a few Apple and Pear Ciders the other day, which coincedentally have matured out quite nicely after 2 months, I began to think about my cider making, as you do, and where I was going with it. It then...

Well after talking cider most of last night I decided to use some enthusiasm today. Got my juicer out and trotted off down the road and got about 5kg of what appeared to be golden delicious apples from a roadside tree. Good mix of small and large, well ignored, sharp smelling apples. Topped...

I have a friend who has asked me to brew him a "milk liquorice stout", I'm a kit n kilo type of brewer as far as beer is concerned. Does anyone have a recipe, idea etc that they could enlighten me with? I dont have a clue about how to use milk or liquorice in beers, so any help would be...

Just went to Woolworths, Just Juice long life apple juice, preservative free etc etc is $2 for 2 litres. Just wish I had more cash on me, could only get half a dozen today. Hopefully the sale is on for a few days. Also Apple and Blackcurrant juice is the same price. Would of liked half a...

What is NAA? Nan's Ancient Apple ! I think I may have put the recipe up here somewhere when I first started posting on here. After recently bottling my first JAO and being a tag unhappy with the initial taste I've decided to give NAA a whirl. It's a recipe I found in an old Tasmanian...

I found a Coopers Mexican Cervaza at the back of my Cupboard, expired by two years. Is it worth mixing up? I figure the yeast has probably had the Richard, but I do have back up yeast. Is anything in the can going to be wrong? Cheers

Just wondering why people used Dextrose in their Cider recipes? I'll admit I was going to use it in my first cider, because it sounds fancier than "sugar", I fully understand why it is used in beer. However, I was educated by my LHBS owner to just use plain ol sugar in my cider. Why? Because...

Well going to put another one down tommorow morning, FV is currently drip drying after a few hours meta bisulphating, and all assorted gear. Going to be based off a Brigalow pack again. I have the Brigalow concentrate can 4 litres of apple, blackcurrant, raspberry and strawberry juice and 5...

Put my first JAO down yesterday, bunged it in the cupboard and waited for the frothing to happen. It built up about 10mm of head then died in the ass and fell back down? Dont know what the go is there? Anyone? Its still bubbling away so I guess not too much can go wrong, it was well...

Just a quick noobish question to those in the know. Like the heading suggests I'm wondering what effect Coopers Brew Enhancer 1 will have on the final gravity of my beer, the can, as usual, suggests a kilo of sugar, but we all know better than that. However, the can also said a FG of 1.006 in...

Well I bottled my first cider a few days ago, after a lengthy hiatus from home brewing, but I;m back with a vengeance. Picked up 106 bottles today. Bonus was they were full of lovely home brewed amber nectar and a lovely tart cider brewed from the fruit of the orchard from whence I picked up...