Making Homemade Wine and Beer

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Its been extemely warm the past few days here with temperatures hovering around 90 degrees.  Feels more like the middle of summer than the middle month of spring.  The best thing about summer is being able to get local and ripe watermelons.  Something about those big green things that just “ooze” summer. 
 
I have made [...]

You know, it is the little things in wine making that make or break your wine.  There have been times I have forgotten to add ingredients or I know one time I added too much yeast nutrient to the must.  Stupid me got teaspoon and tablespoon mixed up.  99% of the time, you can get [...]

I found this tutorial at Instructables.com.  It doesn’t get any easier than this except for maybe buying a commercially made beer.  This is really for the true beginner and uses a lot of techinques that I have used and still use for making beer.  One thing to be careful about is using the plastic water [...]

This is an interesting article on 2 row and 6 row malt that I found at Realbeer.com.
Brewers call malt “the soul of beer” but they might also add that malt contributes mightily to the different personalities we expect from beer. It’s a big subject, so this week we’ll discuss barley malt only and stick [...]