Making Homemade Wine and Beer

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There are two things that you have to know about to make good rhubarb wine:
1) Chop up your rhubarb stalks and freeze them in plastic bags for a few days before you make the wine. I really don’t understand why this should make a difference, but it does. If you use fresh rhubarb the wine [...]

Ingredients:
8 lbs extra pale dry malt extract
13 oz. pale candi sugar (or white table sugar)
7 AAU’s hop pellets - 70 minutes
½ oz hop pellets-5 minutes
Wyeast or white Labs Saisonyeast (or culture your own from the dregs of a good
bottle-conditioned Saison).
Method:
Heat
6 gallons of brewing water (use two pots if necessary). Stir in malt
extract into the brewing [...]

1 cup basil leaves, loosely packed
2 11-oz cans frozen 100% white grape concentrate
14 oz granulated sugar (to specific gravity of 1.085)
Water to make one gallon
2-1/2 tsp acid blend
1 Campden tablet, finely crushed and dissolved in 1/4 cup water
1/4 tsp tannin
1-1/4 tsp yeast nutrient
1 pkt Champagne wine yeast

Wash fresh basil leaves and place in nylon straining [...]

This is a rare Friday post, well actually it is suppose to be yesterday’s post. We are in the process of prepacking for a move in a couple of months, so I spent most of my time working on that. I never really knew that I had so many wine and beer bottles [...]