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I tried that the other day they had them for sale for $6 a bottle at New World. I found it a little too fruity. Was very similar to the Macs Sassy Red. Nice but any more than 1 bottle would be sickly.

Would prefer 330 but 500 if necessary. But I drink steinys for my normal booze so that would be an easy solution.

Ah well. Any advice on what bottles are best to use and what not to use? Last thing I want is the groom clinking a bottle and it explodes in his hand and severs fingers before he consummates the marriage. Haha

I have a dozen pop top 750ml bottles already. I want to cap 6 dozen of them for a mates wedding present.

Yeah pretty keen to cap them.

Does anyone know where to get 330ml glass bottles from that can be capped with a crown capper? I know I could reuse bottles but not sure on how they would handle that after reading about some bottles being notoriously thin in the glass.

I'm still reading budd. :D

I'm still very new to homebrewing... So far I used an extract kit about 3 weeks ago and also a week ago started a very basic one from supermarket applejuice.. I have a mate in Hastings who has offered me a swag of apple juice in the nea future - his olds own an orchard and he's just in the...

Nice Blog - I like the layout.. Much of a mission to create that blog??

Awesome to know. Do you guys have any blogs about your brewing?

Soda Stream CO2 bottles would be food grade surely? (for the JacPac idea) http://www.amazon.com/dp/B002ZB7M44/?tag=skimlinks_replacement-20 If you mean for the small 8 gram "whippet" size then most commercial kitchen supplies will sell N2O od Selzer cannisters...

Haha yeah simple rocks. I did my first brew from concentrate a couple of weeks ago and chucked up how I did it in one of my first posts on here. However this time I decided to make one as simply and cheaply as I could with hopefully a palatable result. Heaps of my friends were asking about...

How many brewers on here from NZ and what do you brew? I'm from Wellington and brew cider. (may try beer later) I'm Noobie as - getting my head around techniques and my abilities to start with. Currently have an LHBS bought cider extract under my belt and in the bottles waiting to age...

I am a seasoned (albeit store bought 8%) cider drinker and I had a litre of my first home brew when racking it (just for taste testing you understand and also my glass demijohn didn't have room for the last 2litres) I must admit I got a bit of a sway on. The hydrometer measured that it was...

I started last Friday and this was how I did mine.. (took half an hour from unpacking juice to sitting back and relaxing) - got 2 x 3L bottles of Fresh Up Crisp Apple. (not on special for $13) - drained out 500ml from each (drunk 500ml as its not needed) - heated remaining 500ml in...