Know Your Ingredients: Blueberries
Posted in Blueberry Wine, ingredients, winemaking on Apr 6th, 2011
With a nice flavor and spicy aroma, blueberries make a good dry red wine. Information on blueberry sugar content, Brix, acidity and more.
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Know Your Ingredients: Raspberries
Posted in ingredients, Raspberry Wine on Apr 12th, 2010
What you need to know about raspberries to make great Raspberry Wine.
Know Your Ingredients: Rhubarb
Posted in ingredients, rhubarb wine on May 18th, 2009
Rhubarb is a high quality ingredient that can make a great, age-worthy wine. It’s also a versatile ingredient that takes to many different styles. To take advantage of its versatility, you need to know what it brings to your wine and what you need to add.
Know Your Ingredients: Sugar
Posted in ingredients on Feb 9th, 2009
Everything winemakers need to know about sugar in one place. Bookmark this page and you’ll never have to hunt for how many cups of sugar to the pound, metric conversion, how to make sugar syrup, and more!
Know Your Ingredients: Chocolate
Posted in chocolate wine, ingredients on Feb 18th, 2008
From phenolics to butterfat, what winemakers need to know about chocolate.
Know Your Honey: Acid and lactone
Posted in ingredients, mead on Feb 14th, 2008
Acidity is as important to mead as it is to wine, but much more difficult to measure. Here’s how acid and lactone interact in honey, how that can fool conventional titration, and what you can do about it.
Know Your Ingredients: Cranberries
Posted in cranberry wine, ingredients, winemaking on Dec 12th, 2007
Cranberries are high in acid and pectin, but low in sugar. Why cranberries are difficult to make wine from and what you can do about it.