Home brewing kits ....

I've promised the GF that as payment for filling the bath with cider bottles I will make her some wine. Any recipes for a simple white dry wine type thing?
 
Yeah my homebrew expert at work says it makes it much faster bottling and sanitizing 40 odd bottles using one. So I thought I'd get one to save time and fluid. The kit came with 46 bottles but I will be using my own collection gathered up over the last year.

The corona clone is for the summer and then I will go in search of a decent german lager kit.
 
Last nights brewery tour (see this instant and moment thread) has made me want to have a go at dry hopping. Anyone had any experience doing this? And would you do it in a secondary, or in the barrel?
 
I think my batch of Admirals Reserve has gone bad, I kegged it 2 weeks ago and there is not pressure, a sample out the tap smells like cider :(:(
 
dannyjo22 said:
Yeah my homebrew expert at work says it makes it much faster bottling and sanitizing 40 odd bottles using one.
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Yeah, having spent ages sanitizing 40 bottles with Milton it does look tempting. Most people use a drying tree with them, but I found the rack in a dishwasher is great for standing the bottles upside down on to dry.

Let me know how it goes. What fluid are you using?
 
Skeeter said:
Yeah, having spent ages sanitizing 40 bottles with Milton it does look tempting. Most people use a drying tree with them, but I found the rack in a dishwasher is great for standing the bottles upside down on to dry.

Let me know how it goes. What fluid are you using?
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Yeah I was just going to use the dishwasher rack as well.

I was recommended this stuff...

http://www.brewuk.co.uk/store/chemicals/sterilisers/vwp-cleanser-400-grm.html

It's available in smaller tubs.

Another I was recommended was the ritchies solution...

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Sterilise...180494515784?pt=Home_Brew&hash=item2a064fbe48

:)
 
dannyjo22 said:
Yeah I was just going to use the dishwasher rack as well.

I was recommended this stuff...

http://www.brewuk.co.uk/store/chemicals/sterilisers/vwp-cleanser-400-grm.html

It's available in smaller tubs.

Another I was recommended was the ritchies solution...

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Sterilise...180494515784?pt=Home_Brew&hash=item2a064fbe48

:)
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I, and many others use Videne. It's non rinse contact steriliser, so no faffing about with a bath full of water and soaking for 20 mins then rinsing everything.
 
Based on the smell of iodine based cleaners, I'd still want to rinse off a product like Videne to make sure it didn't contaminate the taste/nose of the drink.

I'll stick to VWP and rinse, just seems to make sense to rinse everything. Plus, aren't there issues with pouring iodine down drains? Obviously, you'll be diluting it quite a lot but still.
 
I use Videne as well. Sometimes rinse once under the tap but sometimes im too lazy and just stick them on the bottle tree. Ive never noticed a difference. 1.25 ml of videne to 1 litre of water in a spray bottle. A quick scoosh in every bottle is enough. It really takes the pain out of bottling.
 
As digger says, its 1.25ml (ish :)) per litre of water so the smell isn't really there. If you're not sure just rinse under a tap.

I have a bottle tree and skooshy thing that sits on top so thats how I do the beer bottles. For wine bottles I put maybe 500ml into a bottle, shake it up and then decant it into the next bottle. On the equipment I use a 1l garden sprayer.

It really is simple, and saves loads of time.
 
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