A Haze in Your Wine? Maybe You Need Pectic Enzyme
Have a haze to your fruit wine? Perhaps it’s pectin forming gelatin solutions in your wine. Here’s how to prevent it.

What is a Metheglin?
Some who are interested in home winemaking might come across the term "meth" from time to time. What are these home winemakers up to? Don’t worry - it’s not the same stuff being sold on the streets.

Already Make Wine? Why Not Try Meads Too
If you already have the equipment to make wine, you have the equipment to make meads. This delicious beverage fermented from honey is as easy as fruit and grape wines and offers another opportunity to experiment in your home winemaking activities.

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

Home Winemaking Operation Suspected Of Being A Meth Lab

Home Winemaking Time Again
It has been awhile since I've updated the blog with my winemaking activities. The reason for that is simple: During the warmer months, I can be found more often on lakes and rivers with a fly fishing rod in hand, than in the winemaking room. I know many winemakers that start their wines in the summer and autumn when the fruit is being harvested. This means they are taking advantage of whatever local produce is available to them for their wine.

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.