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[Tuco]

Welcome ukmastiff, I love mastiff type dogs, especially boerboel's

[Mel]

Hi Ukmastiff I just grafted some cider apple trees from cornwall & somerset , I hope I got it right ! Enjoy the home brew I hope I'll have enough peas for pea pod wine this year I used to love that

[Mamgiowl]

Welcome Mas, we're certainly a sociable site, but full of people who have deep knowledge and ability to impart it too, so you should feel quite at home here.

[goldseal]

Welcome Ian, Cellar Rat and ukmastiff (what part of Herefordshire by the way?)

[ukmastiff]

LO from N/E Herts

Lo, all.

I found your site via a homegrowing forum and my total experience of home brewing was some home wine/pretend liquers kits when I was but a lad twenty plus years ago ( in my 1st bedsit !). I have to say dodgy they may have been but I did produce some very tasty stuff with zero knowledge :P

Things have moved on and I now live in the countryside and keep 11 ducks (for eggs) and am a year two beginner at growing veg. This has given me the taste for all things home made and as I used to live in Herefordshire I am very fond of proper cider and perry (love perry).

I intend to start off with some dodgy cider from juice so I have something on the go, plus the old orange mead recipe from this site and hopefully press the apples from my old and fruitfull tree later in the year. I'd love to know how much juice I may get from one busy tree as I have no idea.

Basically I love a sociable forum and I love decent cider ( well most drink) so hopefully I'm on my way !

Regards Mas

https://www.englishmastiff.org.uk

[Cellar_Rat]

Hi,
I have been making wine for years, from all sorts of things. Ribena was one of my favorites.
I now mainly do red grape wine. I grow a few and buy a few.
I just missed 1000 bottles this year - gutted. Made to an traditional italian recipe with a sprinkling of english science and NO bottling - I do enough washing up already

With grapes getting harder and harder to get I am planning to get my own in this year. www.wine-grapes.co.uk

If you are ever in the Fen's come and sup!!

[Duffbeer]

Welcome Ian, some great mead recipes in the mead area.

[Ian]

Hello there,

I found this site whilst looking for mead recipes and thought I'd join up.

I've been brewing on and off for a while. Though I have just got back into it after a few years.

I've been mostly making mead, cysers and cider (from kits) and have just started my first metheglin. All from basic recipes and instinct, though no disasters I'm pleased to say.

[lockwood1956]

Welcome to you both


pull up a chair!

regards
bob

[Mamgiowl]

Hi both, great to meet you

[Duffbeer]

Welcome aboard Simon and Ian, check out the new winemakers area, although you may not be new to the hobby you'll find stacks of tuorials and easy wines to make that can be tweaked to you liking.

[Pyrosfx]

Hello, My names Ian, I;m a little past the 50 mark. Live in North Bucks.By profession I'm a pyrotechnician, though I'm currently listed as disabled following a fight with a forklift which I lost.

I've made small batches of wine and beer on and off for several years. Keep trying to make a strong alcoholic ginger beer and a light fine elderflower champers. But fail everytime. Other things turn out drinkable.

So with time on my hands and a significant reduction in income I'm delving deeper into both the beer and wine.

Would like to make a passable medium sweet white to keep the wife subdued, and then sparkling fruit wines. In the beer field a cloned
Guinness, a passable lager, build my own kegerator, and lagering station.

I'm a staunch English Nationalist (NOT BNP type), just proud to be English

[Clank007]

Hi,
My name is Simon and I'm from Hampshire in England.
I want to make my own wine as everyone I have spoken to says its a very rewarding hobby.

I dont have access to a press so will hopefully be able to follow the step by step guides on this forum to make it from some form of concentrate.

Anyhoo, its nice to meet you all.
Simon.

[Mamgiowl]

Hi Greg, being nuts is almost a prerequisite for membership on this forum - you should feel right at home.

[NorthernWiner]

Nice to find some other interested people, who won't think I'm nuts.....

Hi Greg,

We're all a little nuts here. So from one nut to another, welcome to the forum!