Making Homemade Wine and Beer

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A wine press is a device used to extract juice from crushed grapes during winemaking. There are a number of different styles of presses that are used by winemakers but their overall functionality is the same. Each style of press exerts controlled pressure in order to free the juice from the fruit. The pressure must [...]

Everybody needs some basic equipment to get started in making their own wine. So here is a list of the 10 things you must have.

Racking Cane - You need to be able to get it from point a to point b

Airlock - Helps to prevent fermenters from exploding and bad bacteria from spoiling your [...]

I’ve talked about using a Mr. Beer fermenter when I first started out making homemade beer.  Well. here is another person’s view on his first attempt at beer making and it pretty much sums up the Mr. Beer brewing process.
 
From Nothing to See Here
 

Well, my first attempt at home brewing with this little kit turned [...]

Here is a technique that Ian from The Home Winery just discovered.  I have been using this technique for a couple years with a lot of success and his write up on it says it better than I can.
 
January 15th, 2006 by Ian

The other day, I overfilled a 3 gallon carboy after racking from [...]