Making Homemade Wine

Want to impress your friends? Serve up some outstanding wine with dinner--and then tell them it's homemade!

In Making Homemade Wine, author Robert Cluett takes the mystery out of winemaking. Using his simple nine-step process, you'll learn how to make superb-tasting wines right in your own home. Whether you want to make a common or unusual wine--from everything from grapes to elderberries to parsnips--you'll find the recipes and know-how here. There's even a universal wine formula that allows you to create your own unique recipes! And if your wine doesn't turn out as you expected, never fear--you can read up on Cluett's tips for preventing and fixing the most common problems home winemakers encounter.

Softback.32 pages. Storey Publishing. 1981.

Use the book as an introduction to sanitation, fruit preparation, fermentation, racking, bottling, and recordkeeping. Clean equipment and measured ingredients are central to repeatable results. Local laws govern alcohol production and distribution, and recipes should be checked against current food-safety practices. Never bottle an actively fermenting wine in a sealed container, and discard batches showing signs that cannot be confidently evaluated.

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