Recent content by MoridinUK

more advice please! Ok so I put this into some 5l bottles and left it, hoping that it would eventually clear. However, I'm not sure ANYTHING is happening at all and so further advice please! None of the airlocks ever bubble or show any signs that CO2 is trying to get out. One of my...

We do have water coolers but I think most of those bottles are on deposit. And I'm not sure how I'd bung the neck, are they not slightly wider than normal carboy's/demijohns? :)

No no you've been very helpful. I have to love the internet, here I am in the UK getting help from you guys, thousands of miles away! Thanks again, I'll get the 5's and let you know how it goes!

i think you guys in the states are having an easier time, I can only find 23l carboys or 5l ones demijohns. I can find 15l and all sized buckets, but with the narrow neck I need... So I guess I could either get a 23l and top up A LOT or 4 5l ones and top up a little. I'm using litres because...

Top it up? well if I do it's going to take a good 4 litres to get back to 23 and thus fill a carboy, though I may have to buy one as both my vessels are fermentation buckets with different lids. I'd need 25 litres to get to the top of the smallest one of those. I wasn't careful enough with...

uh-oh... Well I'm annoyed a bit then. I have the wine in the primary fermentation bucket because I don't have 2 carboys and my little experiment was getting expensive if I went and bought more... I thought I'd be ok with that as my kit told me not to top up, which would have left a larger...

I need so much more patience with clarifying! Oct/Nov... I need to find somewhere not too cold to rest mine, it can't stay in the kitchen for that long!

All looks awesome! I want a barn to brew in!

Well, I've no idea how to raise it's temperature.... I don't have a jacket as this is my first attempt at making wine. Right so pour the bottle back and settle down for another 3-4 weeks... I'm going to have to move it from the kitchen then. or at least back to the floor. Short of...

I degas'ed at about 70 degrees. Anyway to check I got all the gas out? And I have plenty I have not bottled. I can leave it to settle some more, but it is taking up room in the kitchen! So more patience then... any advice on the four bottles? Throw out, wash re-use?

Hi all, I've just finished my first attempt at brewing wine at home! However, I've got a nagging feeling I may have a problem. I used a 4 week Kenridge Classic California Connoisseur shiraz wine kit. From Vineco. I followed the instructions but some things went differently, my spec...