"Jaques d'Altrades" wrote in message
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from "Paul Richards" contains these words:

Any home-brewers out there?

We have just decided to have a go at making some homemade wine for the
first time. All the recipes we have found include the instructions
'add X campden tablets' and I dimly remember the same from when my
mother made the stuff 20+ years ago. The problem is, where do you
obtain these magical tablets? 'In the olden days' we would buy them
(and other related paraphernalia) from Boots but these days they've
never heard of the things. Can anyone suggest where we might look for
them? We live in SE London.

My advice is, don't. I only use them for sterilising containers etc.

But sodium hypochlorite is better, as long as you wash everything in
clean water afterwards.

Is that the stuff called "Chlorox"?
I used it extensively in my winemaking and brewing days.

Franz