Making Homemade Wine and Beer

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Barley Wine

1/4 lb barley
1/2 pint grape concentrate(or 1 lb raisins)
2 lemons(or 4 tsp citric acid)
2 1/2 lb sugar
amylozyme(follow directions on label)
1 campden tablet
1 gallon water
yeast and nutrient

soak barley in a pint of water overnight.

grind the barley and raisins in a [...]

 
How many times have you made wine and wondered if you were using the correct yeast?  Or, it late at night and all that you have is a Burgundy yeast and you are making strawberry wine.  Will it work?  Hopefully this and the next post (Tuesday) will help you.  This post will deal with dry [...]

I got e-mail the other day from Kermode Bear at Kermodebear.org.  He actually made a batch of George Washington’s Porter and the e-mail tells of his adventures.  Of course, back in George’s day they fermented just about anything, since most supplies were very limited.  A molasses beer probably did taste pretty good back then, but according  [...]

This is a recipe for Tea Wine.  I made a batch in May and just bottled it a few days ago. I made it out of orange-tangerine tea and just throw everything in and allowed it to ferment.  My recipe is at the bottom if you want to try it.  My wine ended up tasting [...]