The Garden Orchard

The shed

Stock check before you order. Doses so you don't have to find the packet.

Status: ok · low · out · expired

Consumables

item stock dose best before status
Fermaid O (Lallemand) 50 g pack · ~17.5 g committed to the meads 1 g / 2 L, or 4 doses TOSNA 05/2027 ok
GoFerm Protect Evolution a few g — 12.5 g used 09/08 1.25 g per 1 g yeast 02/2027 low
Lalvin 71B none — both 5 g sachets pitched 09/08 5 g / 20 L 06/2026 out
Tannoblanc opened · 1.3 g used 09/08 0.5–1 g / 10 L, at ferment start — ok
Zymex pectinase 100 g · 10 g used 09/08 4–8 g / 10 kg fruit or must 03/2023 expired
Gærstop (50% KMS / 50% sorbate) 100 g 1–2 g / 10 L 12/2022 expired
Campden tablets part bag 1 tab/gal ≈ 50 ppm — ok
Lactose 1 kg back-sweetening, unfermentable 08/2026 ok
Calcium carbonate 100 g 6.5 g / 10 L lowers acid ~1 g/L — ok
Malic acid 100 g 9 g / 10 L raises acid ~1 g/L 06/2024 expired
Citric acid 40 g — 04/2020 expired
Nutrisal (DAP) 100 g 3–6 g / 10 L must 04/2025 expired
Honey — Moldovan none — whole ~4.5 kg jar into 2026-02a/b — — out
Honey — local Danish large jar + smaller — — ok
Solbær, frozen ~1.5 kg of 3 kg 60–125 g/L — ok

Which expiry dates matter: salts and acids don't spoil, so malic, citric, DAP and calcium carbonate are fine — those dates are nominal. Three do matter. Dried yeast loses viability. Pectinase is an enzyme and loses activity. Metabisulphite oxidises to sulphate and loses SO₂ strength, which means a half-dose of an old pack is less than half.

Vessels

vessel capacity count in use
Graduated bucket, white 25 L 2+ 2026-01
Glass demijohn, large 10 L 2 2026-02a, 2026-02b
Glass demijohn, small ~5 L ~8 2 × ACV (tool shed), 1 × the dud
Vinballon, HDPE 25 L 2+ —
PET carboy ~25 L 3 —
Cornelius keg, stainless 19 L 1 —

One bucket has a bottom tap and a stick-on temperature strip.

Kit

processing
Apple mill electric, stainless hopper, tripod stand
Hydropress stainless basket + base, tripod legs
Press bag intact
Fruit bag has a hole — in 2026-02b, replace before next season
measuring & transfer
Refractometer Brix + SG scales, cased. Unfermented juice only — alcohol skews it
Hydrometer needed for FG, refractometer won't do it
pH meter none — the biggest gap in the shed
Auto-siphon + tubing
Airlocks, bungs, funnels assorted
Taps, spigots, bulkheads basket of them, plus a chrome beer faucet
Thermometers hanging + floating
bottling
Bench capper green Ferrari-type, plus crown caps gold and red
Muselets + natural corks champagne method
Bottle tree, brushes, divider boxes
Bottles green champagne, brown swing-top, assorted commercial empties
cleaning
Star San 946 mL, built-in 10/30/50 mL measuring chamber
VWP cleaner/steriliser chlorinated
Rodalon disinfectant spray
Measured spray bottle replaced 08/2026

To buy

Prices checked 10/08. jmbryg is local and fast but was out of 71B and both mid-size buckets. Free shipping: jmbryg 999 kr · Maltbazaren 695 kr.

where kr why
2 × gærspand 12,5 L (låg, gærlås, markings) Maltbazaren 85 ea 25 L too big for small trials. Two, so a split must can be A/B'd
10× humle poser jmbryg 41 Replaces the holed fruit bag. Hop-bag shape, not a straining bag — it has to pass a demijohn neck
Lalvin 71B 5 g Brygforretningen 16 out after the mead pitch. jmbryg 35 kr but udsolgt
Pectolase 5 g Brygforretningen 7 shed pack is 2023 — enzyme, so it has faded
Nutrisal (DAP) jmbryg 48 shed pack expired
pH meter — undecided Nordisk 395 · jmbryg Cobra 519 + buffers 156 both ±0.1 pH. Sets the sulfite dose
Potassium metabisulphite ordered 09/08 shed pack is from 2022
~~GoFerm Protect Evolution~~ — dropped: nice-to-have. Only DK sizes found were Vinmager 100 g / 65 kr or Maltbazaren 2,5 kg

Live vessels elsewhere

Not this year

The corny keg would fix the oxygen-during-aging problem: closed transfers under CO₂, purged headspace, no splashing. Kit already owned. Declined for 2026 — noted so it isn't re-pitched.