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Brew it Yourself: Make Your Own Beer, Wine, Cider and Other Concoctions

By Richard Hood and Nick Moyle

Published 2024

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It’s hard to avoid spillage when siphoning wine from demijohn (carboy) to bottle, so place your empties on a towel or in a bucket as close to each other as you can. Our recipes will fill six standard 75cl bottles (often with half a glass left over to sample). Although you can use screw caps, we recommend you don’t – unless you’re 100% certain all the yeast is no longer active a further fermentation may start in the bottles. This could lead to a build-up of pressure and, eventually, an explosion – so cork them up instead. You can either use traditional corks, or specially designed plastic stoppers which bung up the hole with a firm thrust of the palm. Don’t think you have to discard any recycled screw-cap wine bottles, though – corks fit in these just fine.

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