ive used this forum for a few years ...
made lots of wine kits there good value ,from wilkos, and i know make all grain beers from scratch...
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In my student days we made wine from dried raisins. They are full of sugar so you don't need to add any. Chop them up, pour over boiling water, let it cool to tepid. Meanwhile start the yeast off (equal quantities yeast and sugar plus warm water. Stir in and leave in a warm place to ferment. I used a bucket with a lid that had an airlock fitted. The resulting wine has a brown tint and tastes like a warming fortified wine. If you like madeira, port or sherry, you'll probably like this. Cheap as chips too.
I agree, making wine from fresh fruit and veg is much nicer and cheaper in the long run. We make a lethal Elderberry Wine thats very potent in Alcohol and similar to port in taste, my OH likes it with chilled lemonade as a long drink.
My favourite is Orange wine, a lovely fruity white wine made from over ripe oranges scrounged from our greengrocer for a few pence each, with sultanas, sugar and wine yeast. The key is to keep everything sterile, and keep the dreded wine fly out of your brew. The finished Orange wine is rather like GrandMarnier liquer, and is nice in an Orange trifle, or used to make a sauce to accompany roast Duck.
Our recipe book is called Country Wines, and is a couple of decades old, but still serves us well, including making autumn Pear cider, and Apple 'Brandy' from the windfalls on our trees, which ferments naturally from the yeasts already present in the fruit skins.
Julia
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Topic: HOME MADE WINE......tips please
