Your First Cider
Posted in apple wine, Cider on Sep 26th, 2011
Get some juice, add some yeast, and make cider!
Category Archive for 'apple wine'
Leslie’s Apple Wine – Bottled!
Posted in apple wine, winemaking on May 23rd, 2011
A review of Leslie’s Apple Wine. The recipe was easy to follow and produced a bright, clear apple wine that was ready to bottle in six months – without fining!
Apple Wine: Literary references
Posted in apple wine on Nov 29th, 2010
From Desperate Housewives to Tales of the Arabian Nights, apple wine pops up more often than you might think.
Juicing Apples By Freeze – Thawing
Posted in apple wine, DIY equipment, equipment on Sep 14th, 2010
What can you do when you’ve got too many apples for a juicer, but you don’t have a crusher and press? Here’s how I coaxed about 35% juice yield from 8 lb of apples with very little equipment and what I would do to improve that yield next time.
Easy Apple Wine Recipe: For Leslie
Posted in apple wine, Recipes, winemaking on Jul 26th, 2010
Turn a gallon of apple juice into wine with this simple, step by step, recipe.
Apple Cider
Posted in apple wine, Cider on May 3rd, 2010
Best of Twitter! You are 90 percent more likely to buy red wine if you buy onions & more the wine industry has learned about you: http://bit.ly/brPFFg Follow Washington Winemaker on Twitter. The Lady of the House and I visited Eaglemont Wine and Cider the other day. They make good wine, we bought a bottle [...]
Apple Wine: Processing the apples
Posted in apple wine, other blogs on Aug 31st, 2009
Apple harvest has begun in my backyard, and that’s got me thinking about wine. I’ve made a lot of apple wine, and processed apples a lot of different ways. Blenders and juicers both work, but you have to chop all the apples and process them in batches. I can’t find the notes, but I remember [...]
Apple Mead
Posted in apple wine, mead on Oct 1st, 2008
I’ll often make a fruit mead the way you would make a second wine. I made a cherry mead like that last year, for example, and I’ll make an apple mead the same way. I saved the pulp from apples I juiced to make wine, put it in a ziplock bag, and froze it. That’s [...]
Apple Wine 2008
Posted in apple wine on Sep 29th, 2008
Making apple wine from your own apples! Equipment and ingredients you will need, measurements you will need to make – and how to do it.
Titratable Acidity: Mystery, Consistency, and too much acid
Posted in apple wine, mead, measurement & testing, tomato wine on Feb 28th, 2008
Cherry Mead: The case of the disappearing acid Suppose you measure 6 g/L titratable acidity (TA), then add about 1.3 g/L of tartaric acid. After you let it sit for a while you’d expect a TA over 7, right? Me too. You certainly wouldn’t expect just a little over 5 (call it 5.2), would you? [...]