Does anyone else like homemade wine?

[jlmann]

Sure - I'd love to mix up a batch of hooch......

 

[jbowyer01]

just incase the link didnt work when I edited it

http://homesteadinghousewife.blogspot.com/2007/11/homemade-wine-101-hiccup.html

I havent tasted it yet but so far nothing has exploded

 

[jlmann]

Thanks a bunch. The reason I asked about the yeast is because some people use fleischmanns to make wine and it sometimes "dies" before completing fermentation. I try to use champagne yeast when I can get it from the local homebrew store.

 

[menageriemama]

My mother has 5 gallons of cherry wine living in her "scrub" room. We are going to dip into it over Easter while making headcheese.

 

[debilorrah]

I think I will make some of that next month for Christmas!!!!

 

[PunkerTechnoRoo?ter]

My mom makes Muscadine wine. She labels it wild grape hooch. To me its a required taste.

 

[Dipsy Doodle Doo]

Hi! There is a whole 'nother forum ready to start --- Backyard Vintners ( that's not the right terminology?).
My Step-Dad likes to spring his new 'concoction/decotions' on us because we are willing 'tasters'. I don't enjoy sweet wine myself, but it's fun to taste and guess what ingredients went into producing a particular bottle *hiccup*.
It's a fun hobby.

Lisa

 

[digitS']

I'm not up for too many challenges but have made wine and beer a few times.
I check into a forum called "Wild Wines" now and then. It is pretty much for making any kind of wine that isn't grape. Some swear by the quality of "Pea Pod" wine

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I’ve taken perfectly good fruit and made pretty unpleasant wine out of it. About the only wine I've made that was actually good was elderberry. It was so simple and I guess I may have proved that it was fool-proof. I'm always real busy during the time when elderberries are ripening and some years, they don't get enuf rainfall to make nice berries. I could also be unwilling to risk too many chances at screwing up the elderberry wine

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A wine that was okay was rice and raisin. The Wild Wine crowd is cheating a little with the raisins but they are also an ingredient in my best beer recipe. The rice and raisin wine doesn't age very well, I have to say, but I was encouraged to try and not really disappointed. Here’s the recipe, the author is a regular on Wild Wines.

Passable was a buttercup squash wine that I made using raw squash in place of about one-half of the rice in that recipe. It had an absolutely beautiful color but also had a very narrow time that it was a passably okay drink.

Steve

 

[jbowyer01]

digitS' :

A wine that was okay was rice and raisin. The Wild Wine crowd is cheating a little with the raisins but they are also an ingredient in my best beer recipe. The rice and raisin wine doesn't age very well, I have to say, but I was encouraged to try and not really disappointed.
Steve

Raisins YUCK! But I like grapes...go figure

 

[VT Chick-lit]

digitS', I get alot of elderberries from my bush each year and I need a good, easy recipe for elderberry wine. Could you post the one that you made?