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Turn a gallon of apple juice into wine with this simple, step by step, recipe.

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Mulled Wine

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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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 [...]

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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 improve future experiments – and not just mine. I’d really like to [...]

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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. [...]

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Rhubarb Wine Recipe

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.

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Tomato Wine Recipe

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 [...]

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Apple Wine Recipe

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:

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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 [...]

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Raspberry Wine Recipe

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 [...]

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