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Winemaking

Upton O'Good — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 19:26:26 -0800

Jack Keller's winemaking site has not only the basics of home winemaking in 5 parts [1 2 3 4 5], but also information on more advanced topics, including acidity, blending, and using a hydrometer. Equally interesting is his extensive collection of recipes for making wines out of things other than grapes, including dandelions and other edible flowers, wild plants (including nettles!), cabbages and beets, tea and coffee, mint, pomegranates, and pumpkins. A complete list of recipes is here, if you'd like to click through alphabetically, and a list of specially-requested recipes is here (scroll down a bit).

By: growabrain

growabrain — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 20:02:26 -0800

Pour me a mug of cabbage wine & I'll die a happy man

By: god hates math

god hates math — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 20:02:48 -0800

Oh sweet god. Beet wine. My wife will kill me if I try to make it, but it might just be worth it.

By: Poolio

Poolio — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 20:09:25 -0800

Does it explain how to get into the box?

By: cog_nate

cog_nate — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 20:36:30 -0800

Jack Keller's recipe ideas are simply the most wonderful kind of crazy. Very much like the Alaskan Bootlegger's Bible. Thanks for the link(s).

By: Kickstart70

Kickstart70 — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 20:37:24 -0800

Yeah, my first thought was that beet wine would probably be pretty awesome. Pumpkin too. But onion wines I'm not so sure about.

By: mumkin

mumkin — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 21:06:07 -0800

Beet-infused vodka is delicious stuff, if you're a fan of the beet. I think I'll have some now, in fact, as an aperitif. So yeah, maybe this winter it's time for beet wine. Thanks, Upton!

By: UbuRoivas

UbuRoivas — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 22:30:33 -0800

as an amateur honey-wine* brewer, i am looking forward to trying out some of these recipes. pedantically, though: tea wine? coffee wine? nettle wine? making alcohol is a fiendishly simple process: yeasties eat sugar, shit alcohol. whatever the yeast is eating in these "wines" is certainly not coffee, tea or nettles. most likely, it's just sugar, with the coffee etc added for flavouring, in the form of an infusion. * yeh, i know, it's mead, but that just sounds too much like a dorky dungeons-n-dragons / medieval / viking re-enactment society hobby for my liking.

By: UbuRoivas

UbuRoivas — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 22:32:55 -0800

Coffee Wine (1) ½ lb freshly ground coffee 2½ lbs dark brown sugar 1½ tsp citric acid ¼ tsp tannin 7½ pts water 1 tsp yeast nutrient Sauterne wine yeast shenanigans!

By: exogenous

exogenous — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 05:49:18 -0800

Cool... I just read this article on "natural" winemaking.

By: MrMoonPie

MrMoonPie — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 05:57:21 -0800

Lovely--I just planted a bunch of muscadine vines yesterday. Check back in a couple of years and I'll tell you how the wine came out. Poolio, home winemakng stores have been selling bag-in-a-box systems for years--no joke. They're an easy way around washing, filling, and corking bottles. Accumulating enough bottles for a batch or two can also be a pain--I've gotten some strange looks from my neighbors when they've seen me going through their recycling bins.

By: rusty

rusty — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 06:25:06 -0800

The recipes for "apple wine" sound very bad to me. "Apple wine" is not a thing, but cider made correctly is delicious.