Why You Might Need Acid Blend When Making Fruit Wines Does your fruit wine have a medicinal quality to the taste, or perhaps it’s a just a little flat? Maybe this is the answer to help you create much better wine! Cleaning And Sanitizing Wine Bottles - Three Essential Pieces Of Equipment In Home Winemaking If you’ve decided that home winemaking is for you, you’ll want to know how you can save some money and make the process more efficient. One way to save on costs is to reuse your wine bottles. Here’s how. How To Make Wine For Free? Part 2 - Ingredients In Part 1 of "Can You Really Make Wine For Free," we discussed the basic equipment costs you will have to budget for. How about the ingredients? Can we really budget zero dollars and get everything for free? Here’s Part 2.

“Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.”   -Aristophanes

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Travels And Beer
I've been away on a little vacation with my awesome almost 7 year old son. We flew out to Edmonton, Alberta and enjoyed most of the time - spent in Whitecourt and a couple of trips, one through Fort Assiniboine and then one to Jasper. Not wine making country - but I do enjoy Alberta very much.

Home Winemaking Goes With Fly Fishing
I know of a few fly anglers that also make their own wine. Jack Keller is one, and so is Ernie Kalwa, the Captain of the Fly Fishing team (The Osprey's) that I used to be a member of. Not sure which one of us ties the better flies, but I know it's not me! Although I do enjoy doing that. Today and yesterday, I had two good days to combine my two hobbies. And one advantage a home winemaker has if they've brought a fish back to eat for dinner is that wine selection is not difficult.

Home Winemaking And Carbon Dioxide Emissions
Have you ever looked at your airlocks popping up and down as carbon dioxide gas is being released and wondered just how much co2 you might be responsible for generating? There was an interesting discussion started by a user "Dhorton" at the WineMakingTalk forum who was wondering if there was any concern in regard to co2 amounts in their apartment as a result of making wine at home. Apparently, since Dhorton began making wine, their smoke/carbon monoxide detector was activated a few times. I imagine the detector detects carbon monoxide specifically, and there could be a number of reasons for false alarms including humidity, dust and even bugs getting into the unit. But to a new winemaker, I can understand the concern seeing all these carbon dioxide bubbles coming up and wondering if the quantity is enough to affect the air inside.