Rice Saki
Use raw rice rather than polished rice, if possible.
Ingredients
2 1/2 pounds rice1 pound raisins2 1/2 pounds honey1 tablespoon acid blend3/4 teaspoon energizer1 campden tablet1 package sherry yeastwater
Wash rice. Place in primary fermentor. Add raisins. Pour 1 gallon hot water into fermentor. Add all other ingredients except yeast. Let sit overnight.
Specific Gravity should be 1.100. Add [...]
Honeysuckle Wine
With Spring almost here (it’s still been a little chilly here), the flowers will soon be popping out. What better way to celebrate than to make a batch of wine with the flowers. For this wine make sure that you only use the flowers because the berries are poisonous.
Ingredients
4 cups [...]
Dandelion Wine
Photo by: Per Ola Wiberg
Spring is here and soon yards will be sprouting those little yellow flowers. A great solution to the dandelion problem is to make wine with them. This recipe was taking from “Making Wild Wines and Meads” and will make a 1 gallon batch.
6 cups dandelion petals
2 pounds sugar
1 pound light raisins
1 [...]
Birch Wine
Soon it will be time for the sap to start moving up the trees. I thought that this would be one that would be kinda’ neat to make. Very simple recipe.
1 gallon birch sap4 1/2 cups granulated sugar2 oranges or 1 lemon, sliced thincampden tablets1 package wine yeast
Place birch sap in primary fermentor. [...]
