Idiots Guide to Wine Making?

[paula.berriman]

Im going to have a go at making some homemade fruit wines this year but i have no clue how to do it or what books are any good etc. Can anyone help??

[Two_Sheds]

amazon is a good place to browse, because the books have reviews with them.

I've got this one: A Step by Step Guide to Making Homemade Wine: Amazon.co.uk: Judith Irwin: Books

It's much easier to understand than CJJ Berry

[paula.berriman]

Thanks :-)

[Mac]

Hi, I use First Steps in Winemaking by CJJ Berry which although is quite old, is brilliant. I only started last year and got a couple of quite good wines out of it - along with a lot of help from the kind folk on here!

[Sam Smith]

Im going to have a go at making some homemade fruit wines this year but i have no clue how to do it or what books are any good etc. Can anyone help??

Paula,
Try your local library & charity shops for books, note that a lot of recipes, especially on the internet, are very dodgy, try running recipes through my beer & wine calculator from the YoBrew site, it will help show up any obvious faults in a recipe & also help you to create your own recipe. There is lots of other usefull stuff on there to. Also try petespintpot for more recipes & information.

[elsie-scot]

Maybe try River Cottage book or site, Hugh quite often makes some brew

[diane.star]

I started with this book : The Alaskan Bootlegger's Bible - Its "american" but very basic, not really using chemicals. I also have CJJ Berry which i fine very useful.

Finally for help there is :
http://www.brew-it-yourself.co.uk/homebrewing-forum/

Happy Brewing.

[Capsid]

I find this site useful too.

Homebrew wine and country wine including recipes

[ohbeary]

Easiest wine ever,

1ltr white grape juice
1ltr apple juice
700g sugar
1 tsp yeast nutrient
1 x 5g sachet champagne yeast
water to 7 pts, top up to 8pts after 3 days

this is almost foolproof, it will clear itself and the apple/cider smell goes after a while, it will ferment to dry in as little as 5 days, clearing takes a little longer,
http://www.homewinemaking.co.uk/forum/YaBB.pl?board=non try this site, nice friendly folks, very relaxed atmosphere

the above recipe is good with other juices instead of apple!