About this title: Make Extraordinary Homemade Wines from Everything but Grapes! Exotic wines, honey meads, spicy metheglins, and fruity melomels-there's no end to the great-tasting elixirs you can make using ingredients from your local market and even your own backyard! You'll find easy, step-by-step winemaking instructions plus memorable recipes, including: .Apricot Wine .Dry Mead .Marigold Wine .Almond Wine .Cherry Melomel .Cranberry Claret .Pea Pod Wine .Lemon-Thyme Metleglin .Strawberry Wine .Rose Hip Melomel
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Description: Brand New. Paperback. Making delicious wine from wild-even weird-ingredients is easy with this comprehensive guide for the beginning winemaker. A revised and updated edition of Storey's 1992 title Country Wines, it offers concise instructions, a glossary of terms, and 125 recipes for using common kitchen equipment and ingredients. Even experienced winemakers will love the unique recipes, 40 of which are brand new for this edition. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Storey Publishing, LLC
Date Published: 1999
ISBN-13:9781580171823ISBN:1580171826
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Workman Pub Co
Date Published: 1999
ISBN-13:9781580171823ISBN:1580171826
Description: New. Make Extraordinary Homemade Wines from Everything but Grapes! Exotic wines, honey meads, spicy metheglins, and fruity melomels-there's no end to the great-tasting elixirs you can make using ingredients from your local market and even your own backyar... read more
"Due to reasons I'm going to break my review of this book into two components, the instructions and the recipes.
Instructions: Simple and straightforward, this would be a great book for someone starting out in the hobby. The directions are of the "tried and true" variety with a few procedural options thrown in, but not enough to overwhelm (and believe me, brewing can get AWFULLY overwhelming). There's a fairly nice balance of explanation and brevity, and I appreciated that it took the time to break a few things down that are taken sort of for granted in higher level texts. That being said; if you're old hat at home brewing it is probably worth taking a read-through for a baseline understanding of the practices the recipes are based on, a quick refresher, and perhaps a different way of wording things you might like better... but don't expect any mystical revelations. I do have to say however that the section on sterilization was unexpectedly thin. Considering all the items they recommend you get from a brew supply already, household bleach should not be the focus of the sterilization section.
Recipes: This is where for me this book shines. The recipes take up about 2/3 of the book and range everywhere from the tried and true classics (grape, strawberry, honey) to the really outré (beet wine anyone?). For an experienced brewer with a few books under their belt there might not be so many forays into the "wild" as the title might suggest, but the recipe list would look pretty out-there to someone used to grape table wines. Some brew science is still a bit deeper then I'm personally interested in going right now, and sometimes it's awfully nice to be able follow a pre-tested recipe to approximate the results I'm looking for rather then having to calculate every additive based on tables and graphs, and I think that alone will keep this book near the top of my reference pile for this hobby.
There are variations of most of the wines to account for different tastes: most include at least a sweet and dry variation, and many include variations to account for different varieties of the same fruit and levels of ripeness. Yield for each of these recipes is one gallon, which is a nice economical size for testing out something, as the cost of fresh fruit and honey can add up fast, and in the worst case scenario it can be no fun having to get rid of five gallons of something that turned out badly after what could even be several years of work.
In the end I still think the best judge of an instructional book is if reading it makes me start a mental wish-list of what to buy the next time I play with that specific hobby, and I've already started working out the contents of my next brew-store order."
"Well most of the book is just recipes-- so I didn't read every single one. But I've tried out two recipes- Strawberry wine and strawberry mead. It'll be a while before we know how it turns out."
"Interested in starting to make wine at home? this book is an excellent guide with tips, tools, and recipes for non-grape wines. It's easy to read and handle (even when you are up to your eyeballs in blackberries) and has great notes with many of the wines."
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