To Cold.

Well there has been interest in my brewing that i did not notice from comments on You tube and on here.

So just to let people know that i am currently not brewing due to the weather being to cold, since i brew in my shed.

But i am going to convince my mum to let me have a single demijohn going in the kicthen and carry on making TC and some other new recipes. ^_^

So look back in the new year and catch out the new vids i shall be producing first one shall be how to make a standard TC. ^_^

Strawberry Wine

So with all this turbo cider my girlfriend said about making some strawberry

wine, so today at my local market i thought why the hell not ad brought 3lbs of
strawberries.

So here we go, this made 2 gallons but you can use 3lbs for 1 gallon but
after putting half the wort into a demijohn i thought to plsit this into two.

Wash your strawberry to make sure there clean and have no
pesticides.

Chop of the tops of the strawberries and liquidise them. I
also added 500g of sugar at this point.

Dissolve 1kg of sugar for each demijohn.

Add your strawberry wort to each demi john, Add to EACH
demijohn 1kg of sugar then top up with cold water, Add yeast nutrient and citric
acid. Leave this to cool when you are going to store your DJ's.

Pitch your yeast when cooled and put a air lock in, then wait
till clear and bubbles have stopped going through the air locks then bottle into
wine bottles with 1 table spoon of sugar or honey to sweeten.

The Gravity for these are as follows:-
Left - 1.080
Right 1.070

Mead V1

I thought to give a mead a try as i do enjoy a mead and this should be ready
next year, ive only got a picture of the finihsed product but i shall tell you
how to make the mead.

• Boil some water in a pan.
  
• Heat 3lbs of honey in the microwave for 2-3 minutes add this to your
  boiling water.
  
• Add the honey and water to your fermenting vessel.
  
• Top up your fermenting vessel to 1 gallon.
  
• Add yeast nutrient
  
• one table spoon of citric acid.
  
• Pitch your yeats

Now leave this in a place to brew for about 6 months, when clear rack to

bottles or pressure barrel and leave for another year, longer you leave it the
better it will get. Here is the mead in the demijohn.

Youngs Definitive Lager

Well it's been a while since I last did a update but ive put on some more brews,
So first off i have done a Young's Definitive Lager.

So here we go a step by step guide on how to make a lager. ^_^ This is a 1.6K

tin so you need to add sugar. 1Kg worth. ^_^

First Sterilize your fermenting Vessel.

Open your Kit with a Sterilized can opener.

Boil some water and dissolve your sugar in this.

Add your contents of your kit into the FV.

Add 3 pints of boiling water and you sugar water to the FV and
you dissolved sugar and mix well, keep stirring to aerate your wort, Try and
keep doing this as long as you can, more air you can get into the wort the
better.

Top up with distilled water to 5 gallons, leave to cool and
transfer to where you shall be keeping your brew, when cooled pitch your
rehydrated yeast. ^_^ Leave to brew for 5-7 days. Then transfer to a 2nd
Fermenting vessel for 2-3 days hten barrel with 3 Oz of sugar dissolved in a
pint of your brew. ^_^

Turbo Cider #5 complete. ^_^

So last Friday I racked the Lemon TC into a secondary fomenter for the
weekend while I was out partying, so yesterday i bottled it and going to label
it later on today. So here are the final results and pictures.

ABV 10.5%.Looks:
Looks just like Smirnoff ice, mwahaha.

This is the liquid just before bottling, some bits of lemon
floating in there,hehe.

This is how I bottled this.

The finished lot of bottles around 14 all together form 4 litres, ^_^

This is an actual Smirnoff ice bottle with a red cap.

Up Date On Turbo Cider #4,5

Had some interest on the brewing forum i am part of (link to the right) about
the lemon TC i have on the go so thought to do a small mini update.

So here is a picture of how they looked just after i made them:-

Here is a Video i also took on the progress of the TC's:-

::Click here to View
the Video ::

Turbo Cider #4,5

Here are all the ingredients for my 4th Turbo Cider. This is ment to
make to make a Smirnoff type of drink. This is also designed for
Students to make a high ABV drink at a cheap price.

Ingredients

500 ml of lemon Juice (Morrison's £1)
4 Lemons (Morrison's 76p)
4 Lt of water (Tap FREE)
1kg sugar (Morrison's 76p
Total £2.52

Gravity:- 1.080

(Recipe) Ok so here is what to do to make Turbo
Cider #4. (Recipe)

Add 500 ml lemon juice to Demijohn (DJ)
Add 2 ltr water to DJ
Cut up lemons into segments so they can fit into DJ
Boil some water and dissolved the sugar in water.
Add the dissolved sugar in water to Demijohn
Top up with water but leave a gap for when there crust forms.
Pitch your yeast and place an air lock in the top.

Here we have the the bits for making just a normal apple juice Turbo
Cider. This TC is made from 4.5 ltr of Lidle apple juice.

Due tot he high sugar content in the apple juice I have not added that
much. There is roughly 533.5g of sugar already in the apple juice.

Ingredients

3 x 1.5 Ltr of Apple Juice (Lidle 87p Each - £2.61
200g Sugar (16p)
Total £2.77

Gravity:- 1.060

(Recipe) Ok so here is what to do to make Turbo
Cider #5 (Recipe)

Add the apple juice to half fill the DJ
Dissolve the sugar in some apple Juice
Top up the DJ with the rest of the apple juice.
Pitch in yeast
Add air Lock.

Here are both TC's after completion. So all that is
left to do is keep them some where wait till the bubbles have stopped
going through the air lock and transfer to a second fermenter for 1-2
days then bottle.