You can drink it after 7 days yes but wine tastes best when it has aged so you will find that keeping it for a few months will see a remarkable difference in the taste.
How you all doing, 2nd post, got no anwser from my first so though I should introduce myself. On my 2nd kit brew now. Did a muntons gold range IPA fist and wasn't too impressed, some bottles were better than others. I'm bottling a milestone crusader this weekend and hopefully thats the end of the kits. Going to try a small scale extract brew on the weekend and if all goes well invest in a kettle. Great advice on the site.Thanks
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Finally got all the bits together to brew a full 40pint kit, started off today with Woodefords NOG dark ale, hope it turns out OK. Anyone tried that before? Previous brewing attempt was a demijohn of cider from apples from the folks back garden early October, that's all bottled, just waiting away. Also put together a Solomon Grundy 7day White wine kit while doing the ale, I decided to invert the sugar before adding to help fermentation along, not sure if there's mutch point being a cheap wine kit but that's happpily bubbling away already. The beer however is not as quick to begin fermenting, but keeping a close eye on that. Hopefully it's just a slow starter!
BTW great site guys!
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The Nog is a very good beer, I liked all of the woodfordes but that I think was possibly my favourite, but it is a close one.
&quot;Lordstilton&quot;:2x7voms6 wrote: How you all doing, 2nd post, got no anwser from my first so though I should introduce myself. On my 2nd kit brew now. Did a muntons gold range IPA fist and wasn't too impressed, some bottles were better than others. I'm bottling a milestone crusader this weekend and hopefully thats the end of the kits. Going to try a small scale extract brew on the weekend and if all goes well invest in a kettle. Great advice on the site.Thanks[/quote:2x7voms6]
Did you try for the higher alcohol content version or the standard one?
Standard, It recommended adding sugar to up the alcohol content and everything I'd read here said keep sugar out of the equation. It was my first attempt at homebrewing so I thought keep it simple.
Are you in Mullingar? I am 10 mins away in Rochfortbridge so if you ever need any help or want to spend a day doing an all grain brew with me then let me know.
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