Growing grapes and making wine in Bellevue
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 [...]
Country wine, second wine, and melomel
Cherry mead, often called “cherry melomel”, is usually made like a country wine. You make a country wine with small amount of fruit, 2-6 lb, per gallon of water (250-750 g/L) with enough sugar to bring the alcohol [...]
Posted in Recipes, cherry wine on Jun 30th, 2007
I made the case for white wine from cherries a while back, but when I made cherry wine yesterday it was a red. I bought 43 or so pounds of Bing Cherries, and after setting aside 4.5 lb for cherry liqueur, I had about 38 lb left for wine. They’re dark skinned cherries with red [...]
And you thought tomato wine sounded strange! Years ago I started an oregano bush from seed. Each year I harvest a little for cooking, but it’s huge and most of it goes to waste. What’s a winemaker to do? Use this recipe from Terry Garey’s Joy of Home Wine Making, my first winemaking book. It’s [...]
After writing about mead yesterday, I decided to make one. Here’s how I did it:
Ingredients:
1 gallon (12 lb) of wildflower honey
5 gallons water
5 tsp diammonium phosphate (aka “DAP”)
5 tsp cream of tartar
yeast (I used Red Star’s Premier Cuvee)
Equipment:
A fermenter, stirring spoon, 3+ gallon stockpot, and a hydrometer are needed today. A 5-gallon carboy, 1-gallon jug [...]