Making Homemade Wine and Beer

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There are a couple nice posts by Jack Gygax over at Mpelembe Network that discuss the main indgredients in wine making. Here are a couple of excerpts:
Water
It is essential that all water used in making wine be pure and wholesome. It doesn’t seem to matter if the water is hard or soft; at least, [...]

I’m not a great fan of making wine with kits.  I think it is because I’m basically too cheap or maybe it is because I want to do it “The Old World” way.  Like telling time by the position of the sun.  How many of us do that? 

Wine kits do have their advantages.  For [...]

Nice article from Winemaker Magazine.
Harvest comes once per year and being prepared is vital. You can’t make up for poor farming in the last week before harvest, but you can prepare your home vineyard for harvest just like the pros. An entire year’s work in the vine rows can either pay off in delicious wine [...]

It’s been so stinking hot the past few days.  Temperatures in the middle 90’s and humidity in the 70% range.  Could it be global warming?  Maybe? But, of course, it sure beats freezing your butt off and paying the heat bill.  It got me thinking about how wines should be stored.  Not that it really [...]