Mulled Wine
Posted in Recipes, tasting, troubleshooting on Dec 3rd, 2009
Mulled wine: just the thing on a cold night, a Christmas tradition, and just possibly a way to rescue my wine from store-bought grapes. Here’s how I plan to make it.
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Bailout Blanc: White wine for hard times
Posted in Recipes, welch's wine on Jan 19th, 2009
Can you really make wine from Welch’s grape juice?
Welch’s, or most any brand, of white grape juice is made from Niagra grapes. These aren’t considered wine grapes, and there’s a good reason for that. Still, with proper wine making technique, you can make a crisp dry white from concentrated frozen grape juice that is surprisingly [...]
Boiling Mead Experiment: The recipe
Posted in Recipes, experiments, mead on Nov 17th, 2008
This is for Medsen Fey, and anyone else, who wanted to know the recipe I used in my boiling mead experiment. I want to describe what I did and why. If you think I’ve left anything out, please ask! Good feedback here can [...]
Lord Rhys Chocolate Mead Recipe
Posted in Recipes, chocolate wine, mead on Mar 25th, 2008
I mentioned this one yesterday, when I was commenting on existing wine and mead recipes that used chocolate. Here it is in its entirety:
Chocolate Mead aka Liquid Sex Mead
Lord Rhys, Capten gen y Arian Lloer, Barony of Andelcrag, Midrealm
This recipe may be quoted, borrowed, copied, or stolen by anyone under three conditions.
1. As the originator [...]
Rhubarb Wine Recipe
Posted in Recipes, rhubarb wine on Jan 23rd, 2008
I grow the rhubarb in my garden, harvest several times (freezing each harvest), and make a gallon or two of wine every year. Here’s how I do it.
Tomato Wine Recipe
Posted in Recipes, tomato wine, winemaking on Dec 22nd, 2007
I sowed seeds that sprouted into seedlings. I transplanted the seedlings to beds. I fussed over the tomato plants. I planned. I harvested. Now, at last, I’m finally making tomato wine!
Ingredients
Juice from 18 lb (8.2 kg) tomatoes – about 1.67 gallons (6.3 liters)
4.84 lb (2.2 kg) sugar
2.5 quarts (2.4 liters) water
8 tsp (40 g) tartaric [...]
Apple Wine Recipe
Posted in Recipes, apple wine, winemaking on Nov 5th, 2007
Apple wine is great as a dry white. I make it every year from apples, store-bought juice, or a combination. Here’s how I do it:
Pumpkin Wine Recipe For Halloween
Posted in Recipes, halloween, pumpkin wine, winemaking on Oct 18th, 2007
How much pumpkin and acid?
This isn’t a common wine to make, even for a country wine, but I did find some recipes. Every single one of them agreed on using 5 lb/Gallon (600 g/L) of pumpkin, but they were very different in the amount of acid and sugar. I think it makes sense to use [...]
Raspberry Wine Recipe
Posted in Recipes, enology, winemaking on Oct 3rd, 2007
I made raspberry wine last year. I haven’t talked about it before because I made it and racked it before I started blogging. I also made it before I owned a pH meter or an acid test kit, so I was really flying blind. How do you make raspberry wine without measuring the acidity? I [...]
Produce Department Chablis
Posted in Recipes, enology, winemaking on Aug 27th, 2007
Welch’s wine? While you’re at the grocery store, head over to the freezer section for some frozen grape juice concentrate. Then try my Welch’s wine recipe and see how it compares.I’ve always wanted to make wine from grocery store grapes. It’s not that I’m expecting greatness, but that I’m really curious. Grapes were on sale [...]