Category Archives: Home Brewing

Bottling up some ‘Wedding Wine’…

Posted on 24/05/2015 by Nick

It’s taken a good few evenings but our wedding present for Emma & Kit is now ready :) below are some pics of the production line. The gooseberry came out as a tart medium wine & the blackberry a fuller … Continue reading →

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Bottling up Mead for LARP…

Posted on 15/07/2014 by Nick

So I started a big batch of Mead some months back, and here it is finally getting bottled up for events next month. The nine bottles on the right (the corked ones) will be going into storage, but the rest … Continue reading →

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Great new use for a shower…

Posted on 14/06/2014 by Nick

So I found a great new place to store my fermenting wines ;)   So from the left I now have Portavino (port style wine), Bramble Mead, Sherry style wine and Ancient Orange (spiced) Mead. Nick

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Easter Monday…

Posted on 22/04/2014 by Nick

As it turned out I had a bit of unexpected free time on Monday, so I designed and built a wine rack in the cupboard under the stairs… Also bottled up three demijohns (two wines & one alcopop) and started … Continue reading →

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Homebrew Mead…

Posted on 11/04/2014 by Nick

Sainsburys Basics Honey… Mmmm tasty! So that’s the whole first batch bottled up and we now have on the go: Cyser (Apple & Honey), Raspberry & Apple Wine, Blackcurrant Ribena Wine, Acacia Mead & Raspberry-Ade (aiming for a 5.5% alcopop … Continue reading →

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Furry Sisters Homebrew

Posted on 01/04/2014 by Nick

Hey hey so finished the first three demijohns of wine and made a home brewing label for ourselves in honour of our kitties. I’ve also been working on some additions to my Tyranid army which I will show you shortly, … Continue reading →

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Home Brewing Experiment…

Posted on 08/03/2014 by Nick

Hmm this home brewing hobby may be getting a bit out of hand ;P On the plus side however we have started a Blackberry Wine demijohn, a second Mead demijohn and a Copella Apple & Elderflower Wine demijohn.

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And now my lounge goes gloop

Posted on 27/02/2014 by Nick

Following a conversation with Jen last week we have started a homebrewing experiment with two demijohn’s borrowed from Duncan. The one on the left will hopefully produce sweet mead and the right strawberry wine. Mmm sweet sweet booze. Nick

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