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From what I've read about Ginger Beer Plants it's just regular ginger and sugar and yeast, there's nothing special about them and they require no specialised kit to start. The plant of the above statement refers to the 'industrial' kind of plant and not the 'growing' type, I can see where it would b...

Agreed, the act of opening them causes the caps to be deformed and therefore they never seal right again, the screw ones might be ok but I wouldn't bother with them. If your bottles contained fizzy drinks then they should be fine for beer, even the plastic PET bottles are usable as long as you don't...

Bear in mind that the bitterness and hopiness will mellow over time as your beer matures!

If they were full of beer then they'll be fine for fizzy wine but Like MKG says your best off releasing the excess gas now and enjoy the wine in a few months.

Greenbeast wrote:http://www.brew-it-yourself.co.uk

that's who i use, they also have an attached forum, that might prove useful

I have to admit to being one of the top posters on that forum, it's full of very helpful people like me :D

If you make it all into jam now you can make it into wine later with the jam instead of the sugar and fruit ;)

Wish I'd seen this earlier

If you want to ripen any fruit stick it near a Banana and it'll ripen faster then a whippet with diarrhoea going to the loo ;)

jampot wrote:its also *quite* strong ( i have no idea of the %) woohoo

If you take a specific Gravity reading just before you add the yeast then another specific gravity reading when it's finished fermenting you can calculate the ABV% with a simple calculation...

(O.G - F.G) / 7.36 = ABV%

When I was in my late teens Dad used to make a thick port like wine, I now he used to double ferment, anddouble ferment with brandy added. I too fancy making a port like wine, can anyone suggest how I would go about this? Thanks, Sue Best way to do this is to keep testing your wine for sweetness wh...

Hello there , I was just wondering , am I a moaning idiot ? or is it not me ? I frequently send emails to people around europe , friends , buisness people , all sorts . They don't respond to my emails the same day , is that normal ? or should I give them more time ? They don't respond to my emails ...

As long as the cordial you are using has no preservatives in then yes you can make wine out of it, if there are preservatives in there you may be able to boil them out but I prefer not to bother with them myself. My method... Make a red wine from grape juice or a basic kit. Top up with cordial and p...

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It's summer already, don't tell me you forgotten to try this

We just put out squash seedlings (:lol: they are almost 2 foot tall!) into type planters this weekend, fingers crossed they don't die from the move outside.

If you pick them early (pulp then freeze to keep long term) they'll end up being sour but later you could add them to a super sweet batch and make a nice medium dry cider ;)

probably less flat