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    Default Re: BUDGET CIDER BREWING !!! AROUND 12P PER PINT

    sorry mate - missed that completely, but yes, Sainsburys

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    Default Re: BUDGET CIDER BREWING !!! AROUND 12P PER PINT

    Lidl are doing an "Apple Nectar" 1.5l for 50p a carton

    http://www.lidl.co.uk/cps/rde/xchg/l...7067_13017.htm

    Bargain for making turbo cider if its any good

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    Default Re: BUDGET CIDER BREWING !!! AROUND 12P PER PINT

    intresting read gunna hav a go this weekend comeing just need to know wot all the short term words mean SB3 yeast SG 1080 can you use wine or ale yeast to make cider or a certain type im gunna try
    vimto i buy 6 bottles of kopparberg on a friday n may b 3more on sat so thats 18quid waisted nearly every weekend of 2010 so far lol





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    Default Re: BUDGET CIDER BREWING !!! AROUND 12P PER PINT

    you can use any wine making yeast I have used cider / champagne yeasts and they have been no diff to the generic wine yeast I grabbed from morrissons

    SG and FG are starting and finishing specific gravities, you read the levels using a hydrometer - simple calc from start to final specific gravity gives you your alcohol content

    I have never tried koppabergs but I would think you would need to use whatever fruit juices they are made from and get the SG to around 1035 should give you around 5% if you let it ferment out properly to 1000 FG - maybe a little + or - honey or sugar should get you something along the lines of them.
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    Default Re: BUDGET CIDER BREWING !!! AROUND 12P PER PINT

    Quote Originally Posted by greaseweasel View Post
    Decided to put a couple on tonight myself.
    Put two batches on each with 9 lemons. One batch I used 400g of honey which should make it a nice easy drinking 4.5-5% (keep the missus happy ) and the second I used 500g of medium spray malt so it will be more a beery lemonade. Just did the second one out of interest to see how it comes out. might be grim, but you never know. Just waiting for it to cool to put the yeast in.
    Tasted my Hard Lemonade 'beer' last night, that used medium malt powder instead of sugar.
    Tastes pretty nice after only a couple of weeks and I reckon with maturing it will be a really nice drink.

    The only way I can describe it is like a lemony hoegaarden.
    My only gripe would be maybe I used too many lemons as its a tad sharp, so I'd knock it down to maybe 6 instead of 9 next time, but hopefully the sharpness will mellow with a few more weeks aging.

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    Default Re: BUDGET CIDER BREWING !!! AROUND 12P PER PINT

    I made hard lemon with bread yeast and 600g of sugar and that turned out well mixed with some lemmonade.

    I have lemon and ginger on the go at the moment and its going mad. I should mention that I only use bread yeast and no yeast helper as it doesn't need it.

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    Default Re: BUDGET CIDER BREWING !!! AROUND 12P PER PINT

    I tend to use 1 jar of morrisons cheapo honey per 10l of TC to add a little bit of body to it.
    As prezzy said, you can use any yeast, its just that for a high alcohol wine you may want to use a champagne type yeast to deal with the alcohol.
    Alcohol can kill the yeast when it gets to a certain percentage.

    Bread yeast worked absolutly fine for my first ever TC, but now I just use Youngs Super Wine Yeast.

    If you start adding Vimto or Ribeena, then make sure you simmer it for 20 minutes and let it cool before putting it in to the demijohn, so as to kill off any traces of sulphites which could stop the fermentation happening.

    Currently, all bottled up in my shed I have:
    TC
    Vimto TC
    Summer Fruits TC
    Ausie Pale Ale

    Fermenting I have:
    Real Ale
    TC with honey

    Awaiting fermentation:
    Irish Stout
    A Wurzel Wine
    33 litres of apple juice

    Once you get in to this brewing lark and realise you can be drinking good 35p a pint beer or 33p a litre cider or 40p a litre wine that tastes damn good it becomes rather addictive.... as you may see from this thread, I only started brewing in June this year.

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    Default Re: BUDGET CIDER BREWING !!! AROUND 12P PER PINT

    Had a cheeky taste last night of the vimto tc iv'e got chilling down and i must say it's the nicest tasting one i've done so far! I've got just under 5ltrs of it to drink on my train journey to Twickenham on Saturday.
    Will definately be brewing another batch of it soon.

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    Default Re: BUDGET CIDER BREWING !!! AROUND 12P PER PINT

    Quote Originally Posted by RSV View Post
    Had a cheeky taste last night of the vimto tc iv'e got chilling down and i must say it's the nicest tasting one i've done so far! I've got just under 5ltrs of it to drink on my train journey to Twickenham on Saturday.
    Will definately be brewing another batch of it soon.
    I wouldn't bank on drinking all 5l of it in 1 sitting
    My Vimto TC generaly comes in just under the 10% abv mark without any added sugars for fermentation.

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    Default Re: BUDGET CIDER BREWING !!! AROUND 12P PER PINT

    Quote Originally Posted by Geezah View Post
    I wouldn't bank on drinking all 5l of it in 1 sitting
    My Vimto TC generaly comes in just under the 10% abv mark without any added sugars for fermentation.
    I made a batch of this a few weeks ago and only added a bit of sugar and 0.75l of vimto came out around the 10% mark - is tasty although a little sweet for me.


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    Default Re: BUDGET CIDER BREWING !!! AROUND 12P PER PINT

    I added 250grms of sugar. Thought it tasted quite strong haha. Will be sharing it between 3 of us and 2 of us can pretty much handle our booze. The other might wake up on the train in Swansea on the way back haha

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    Default Re: BUDGET CIDER BREWING !!! AROUND 12P PER PINT

    I started a Coopers Irish Stout kit (made up with 1kg of dark DME) on 27/08 and It went horribly wrong.
    Ferment started well but died after 4 days due to it going too cold for the yeast to continue.
    Tried putting it somewhere warmer, stirring upp the yeast to get it going again (it was stuck at 1020) but no good.
    Once the temps were stable again I pitched another yeast and it tried to ferment for another 24 hrs and died.
    After 14 days in the primary FV I decided to get it in the barrel (still at 1018) and the barrel tap leaked!

    Got it back in the bucket, replaced the tap seal, and transfered it again in the the barrel.... I thought at this point it would end up down the drain..



    What a fooking wicked pint this is!!!


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    Default Re: BUDGET CIDER BREWING !!! AROUND 12P PER PINT

    Tonights tipple is a cloudy TC brewed during the Big Brother season, so this was apt'ly named...


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    Default Re: BUDGET CIDER BREWING !!! AROUND 12P PER PINT

    Quote Originally Posted by Geezah View Post
    Tonights tipple is a cloudy TC brewed during the Big Brother season, so this was apt'ly named...

    Spoiler:
    That's brilliant, you can use the label to tell how pissed you are.

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    Default Re: BUDGET CIDER BREWING !!! AROUND 12P PER PINT

    good effort. like the name. always thought if i started doing labels for my wine i would have a curled up steaming turd with a halo above it. standing for 'good shit'

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    Default Re: BUDGET CIDER BREWING !!! AROUND 12P PER PINT

    Quote Originally Posted by Mule View Post
    That's brilliant, you can use the label to tell how pissed you are.


    she's a 2 pint'a (well, of this stuff she is)

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    Default Re: BUDGET CIDER BREWING !!! AROUND 12P PER PINT

    Doing my 2nd Coopers Stout (fantastic pint)

    Used 1kg of DME and some yeast nutrient off a mate who works for Marstons Coors.



    I have a beer monster

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    Default Re: BUDGET CIDER BREWING !!! AROUND 12P PER PINT

    Ends sunday, Lidl apple juice 1.5l down to 42p a carton - 1/2 price.



    75 litres of soon to be cider and ingredients for 2 gallon of wurzell wine for just over £20

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    Default Re: BUDGET CIDER BREWING !!! AROUND 12P PER PINT

    thought I`d dig this up again

    Got this for xmas http://www.mrbeer.com/category-exec/category_id/180
    but with no hydrometer I`ve no idea on the strength,bloody lovely tho

    Couldnt be arsed with buying more of their mix so prezzy gave me this recipe

    8 litres of apple juice (I used farmfoods 59p a litre stuff)
    600 ml of water, boiled and then 4 teabags brewed for 5 mins or so
    500g of demara (cant spell it) sugar ( I know you said 520g prezzy but the bag was 500g, so I bunged another 50 g of normal sugar in)
    5g champagne yeast (youngs I think)
    total cost around £6.50 for 8 litres of cider

    brewed on Sat but only got hydrometer tonight, reading 1035 tonight.

    Will let you all know the outcome

    Note : Big thanks to Prezzy, who once again has been the fountain of all knowledge

    THE BARON

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    Default Re: BUDGET CIDER BREWING !!! AROUND 12P PER PINT

    So how's it tasting?

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