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Home Winemaking Recipes
I've tried quite a few different wines and have experimented with fruits, vegetables and more. Some turned out horrible while others turned out amazingly fantastic!
Here's some of my home winemaking experiments including the recipes.
Blueberry Melomel (Mead)
Based on a recipe in Making Wild Wines & Meads, a book by Pattie Vargas and Rich Gulling.
Basic Blueberry Wine Recipe
Ingredients for one gallon of wine: 2 1/2 pounds of blueberries (fresh or frozen) Use more for a heavier body wine. 4 1/2 cups of sugar 1 teaspoon Yeast Nutrient 1 1/2 teaspoons acid blend 1 teaspoon pectic enzyme 1 Campden tablet. Wine making yeast Directions Crush the blueberries. I like to use a brand…
Basic Dry Mead
Yield – Five Gallons Basic Dry Honey Mead First, prepare a yeast starter: 1 1/2 cups of orange juice at room temperature 3 teaspoons yeast nutrient 1 Packet Lalvin EC-1118 yeast Mix the juice and yeast nutrient – the pitch the yeast into the starter. Honey Mead Ingredients 14 lbs. honey 5 teaspoons acid blend…
Ginger Wine Recipe
This is an adaptation from a recipe found at Roxanne’s Kitchen. Please note that I used ingredients for 2 gallons of wine as I want to end up with 1 gallon of dry and 1 gallon of sweet wine. Date Started: August 22, 2005 Ingredients for ginger wine : 2 cups chopped fresh ginger root.…
Basic Blueberry Wine Recipe
Ingredients for one gallon of wine: 2 1/2 pounds of blueberries (fresh or frozen) Use more for a heavier body wine. 4 1/2 cups of sugar 1 teaspoon Yeast Nutrient 1 1/2 teaspoons 1 teaspoon 1 . Wine making yeast Directions Crush the blueberries. I like to use a brand new pair of nylon stockings…
Red Currant Wine Recipe
When I was younger, my grandfather had red and black currant bushes. He would get so many currants, that not only was there enough for preserves and jams to last until the following year, there were always quarts and quarts of berries that would go to the birds, or just rot. If he was into…
Kiwi Melomel
First, to those who are not familiar with the term "melomel": A melomel is a fruit mead, made with honey similar to mead, but with the addition of fruit for a taste that is something different than mead. After some urging by friends, I decided to start a Kiwi Melomel, based on a recipe in…
Blackberry Wine Recipe
A recipe I am using to make 2 gallons of blackberry wine: 8 lbs. frozen blackberries 16 cups sugar (enough to bring specif gravity to 1.092) 2 teaspoon yeast nutrient 2 teaspoon acid blend 2 teaspoon pectin enzyme DV10 Yeast Crush the berries in food grade pail. Dissolve sugar in 1 gallon boiling water and…
Potato Wine Recipe
A few years ago, I was walking past a used book store in town, and in the window was a copy of Step By Step Guide to Making Home Made Wine by Judith Irwin. The cost of the 156 page hardcover book was only $14.99, and the book appeared to be brand new. Today, I…