As A diversion while I collect the bits and bobs for my fermentation bin, Im not putting any more ale on until I get a stable environment for my brew.
I have decide to amuse myself with some TC
4.5 lts of Lidll cloudy apple juice and champagne yeast 19 C its bubbling lovely
Just started 4.5 ltr Lidll carnberry and Raspberry juice with champagne jice looks good so far.
The cranberry looks like it would make a good pink wine with a bit more sugar onboard.
Might do that tomorrow. This brewing lark is a bit addictive
Its turbo time
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stevezx7r
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Frisp
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ColinKeb
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Frisp
Turbo Advice please
Amigo's
My turbo brews are starting to slow. They havnt gone mental anyway.
At what point to I bottle them? I want to bottle condition as I want a clearish fizzy brew
My turbo brews are starting to slow. They havnt gone mental anyway.
At what point to I bottle them? I want to bottle condition as I want a clearish fizzy brew
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ColinKeb
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Frisp
Ok the lidll cloudy apple juice has slowed to a stop. Deacanted it into a 2nd demijon and added 1/2L of the stock juice. I made sure that a tiny bit of the mustier looking stuff near the yeast deposit went in. I shared it (5L) evenly amongst 6 1L PET bottles, As I want enough airgap to store a fair bit of Co2 before chilling.
The lot is now in teh airing cupboard at a balmy 24C to kick statrt it. I will movve it back to its originat 18 - 20C location tomorrow.
I gave the yeast deposit a bally good shake and added 4L of tesco cheappie Apple top see what happens. Threw that in the airing cupboard and woo hoo it looks like its p[icking up one hour after putting it together.
The initial sips from the Lidll TC are good. Tastes a bit like a Sweet Thatchers rough ( for all you westcountry blokes)
Excuse the Typos I have been slaking my thirst all day with some of my Cooper Dark ale.
The lot is now in teh airing cupboard at a balmy 24C to kick statrt it. I will movve it back to its originat 18 - 20C location tomorrow.
I gave the yeast deposit a bally good shake and added 4L of tesco cheappie Apple top see what happens. Threw that in the airing cupboard and woo hoo it looks like its p[icking up one hour after putting it together.
The initial sips from the Lidll TC are good. Tastes a bit like a Sweet Thatchers rough ( for all you westcountry blokes)
Excuse the Typos I have been slaking my thirst all day with some of my Cooper Dark ale.
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RbrewR
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Frisp
Flippin eck
Peeps
Im a regular guzzler of Blackthorn and a nice staedy evening is 2 to 2.5 L, I never took any hydromoter readings of my Tesco clear TC. so I have no idea how strong it is.
I have just had my first .75L bottle.
Its delicious it tastes like a dry blackthorn and flippin eck my head is spinning, this is more like a 6%+ cider. It is lovley and fizzy and less than 50p a pint. It doesnt have that sticky sweek taste in the mouth that some regular fizzy ciders have.
Im putting 5 gal on at the weekend. This is excellent. Whoever suggested that this stuff tases "Thin" is clearly not an exponent of getting pissed on the pippin
It is the "Cahones de los peros" ( dogs nads for those who no comprende espanole)
Im a regular guzzler of Blackthorn and a nice staedy evening is 2 to 2.5 L, I never took any hydromoter readings of my Tesco clear TC. so I have no idea how strong it is.
I have just had my first .75L bottle.
Its delicious it tastes like a dry blackthorn and flippin eck my head is spinning, this is more like a 6%+ cider. It is lovley and fizzy and less than 50p a pint. It doesnt have that sticky sweek taste in the mouth that some regular fizzy ciders have.
Im putting 5 gal on at the weekend. This is excellent. Whoever suggested that this stuff tases "Thin" is clearly not an exponent of getting pissed on the pippin
It is the "Cahones de los peros" ( dogs nads for those who no comprende espanole)
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faeyd
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Frisp
Close
Its 5 L of tescos value apple juice ( 1ltr cartons)
I keep these in the place where I will ferment the TC so that it is at the right temp when I add the yeast
Put 4 Ltrs in the demijon ( cleaned and sanitied)and pitch your yeast. I used Lavlin champagne for the first batch, nice dry and bubbly, on the downside the yeast sediment in the bottles moves easily when pouring ( Im trying Youngs Cider yeast on the current 20L batch) . Fit an airlock
Watch it ferment and when it has slowed a bit add half a liitre of the last carton.
Watch it ferment away some more until it slows right down to a near stop.
Make sure that your remaing half ltr is at the same temp as your fermented juice Throw it into a sanitiseed container.
Syphon the fermented 4.5 ltrs into the container so that it mixes with the 1/2 ltr of unfermented.
Make sure its all well mixed and bottle it into clean PET bottles I use 1 and 2 Ltrs cheap asda water bottles. Make sure the lids are back on tight. I also left about 2 inches at the top
Pop the bottles back to the nice cosy place where you brought your TC into the workld just for a week or so to let it gas up, And bacause they are PET bottles you can give them a daily squeeze until they are rock hard, then you know that the bottle has carbonated.
When you are happy that this has happened chill them down in the fridge fro a few days and the cider will absorb the Gas.
Open and Pour and hang on for dear life - you will never drink factory fizzy again
Its 5 L of tescos value apple juice ( 1ltr cartons)
I keep these in the place where I will ferment the TC so that it is at the right temp when I add the yeast
Put 4 Ltrs in the demijon ( cleaned and sanitied)and pitch your yeast. I used Lavlin champagne for the first batch, nice dry and bubbly, on the downside the yeast sediment in the bottles moves easily when pouring ( Im trying Youngs Cider yeast on the current 20L batch) . Fit an airlock
Watch it ferment and when it has slowed a bit add half a liitre of the last carton.
Watch it ferment away some more until it slows right down to a near stop.
Make sure that your remaing half ltr is at the same temp as your fermented juice Throw it into a sanitiseed container.
Syphon the fermented 4.5 ltrs into the container so that it mixes with the 1/2 ltr of unfermented.
Make sure its all well mixed and bottle it into clean PET bottles I use 1 and 2 Ltrs cheap asda water bottles. Make sure the lids are back on tight. I also left about 2 inches at the top
Pop the bottles back to the nice cosy place where you brought your TC into the workld just for a week or so to let it gas up, And bacause they are PET bottles you can give them a daily squeeze until they are rock hard, then you know that the bottle has carbonated.
When you are happy that this has happened chill them down in the fridge fro a few days and the cider will absorb the Gas.
Open and Pour and hang on for dear life - you will never drink factory fizzy again
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faeyd
Nice one guys. I have a demi going crazy right now.
Was quite busy today - bottled 20 litres of Eastern Ale, got a gallon on TC and a gallon of my first wine attempt on the go. Both gallon experiments are doing very well right now.
I had no citric acid for the wine recipe I was following so I hope that turns out ok.
Was quite busy today - bottled 20 litres of Eastern Ale, got a gallon on TC and a gallon of my first wine attempt on the go. Both gallon experiments are doing very well right now.
I had no citric acid for the wine recipe I was following so I hope that turns out ok.
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Shn00dleS
both my brews have alot of sediment, is it ok to use beer finings on them or is better to strain through linen, considering that i have to pour out the brew from the top of demigon, maybe a syphon from top??
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