Jim's Beer Kit

“Edit to OP...the jerry can weighed 25kg and not 25li as originally posted.”
Gotcha. So about six brews from your 25kg @ just over £10 a brew.
Thanks

Johnny,
You bought 25 litres, but put 4.2Kg in your brew. Any rough idea how many litres that was,
to give an estimate of how many brews you can get out of your bulk purchase?

Personally I would use them as they are. Just a suggestion, elderberry are nearly ready to pick, and if you added 250g to your blackberrys, it would improve the final wine a lot. If you freeze the blackberrys while you wait for the elderberry, freezing and unfreezing the fruit breaks down the cell w...

Not stocked in my local ones, Milton Keynes and Northampton.

BlueBerry TC to 20Lts
8Lts BB juice
12Lts Tesco Apple Juice
3 mugs tea, 4 bags each.
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WA,
If you use 20 L of juice, how do you get the 3 mugs of tea in and still make 20L ?

Just a quick question. I dont see why you boiled for 90 min,
but only put the first hops in 75 min from the end.

"If you are interested I can tell you how to save yeast very simply. Exactly how I did it with this yeast."

I would be interested.

How did you measure the pH?
With papers or by titration?

Ive got a blue mango chutney barrel which im making into a boiler.
Because the bottom four inches curves a lot, i have to put the tap
above this or the tap wiil be pointing upwards inside.
Can I tip my barrel to get the last six litres out?

sbond10 wrote:Mine sits about 2.5cm-3cm up leaving about 6 litres in boiler without tipping

Do you tip it when removing the wort or forget about the six litres?

James,
One of the best tips for me was to deep freeze then thaw your rhubarb a few times.
Cut a corner off the freezer bag and use the liquid that flows out for your wine.
Pete

I found my notes from last year's blackberry.
5kg blackberry
5 litre rgj
4kg sugar
1kg raisins
BC3252 yeast.
Started 5th Nov 1084
10th Nov 1004 Racked into secondary fv
13th 0997
17th 0994 lowest SG

Hi Stoofer.
Your sugar alone will make a wine of over 15%.
What yeast are you using ( and what is its alcohol limit)?
Pete

Thanks for all your replies and photos.

Do you happen to have any photos please?