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Article: A brief course in homemade wine-making.
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- Countryside & Small Stock Journal
- Article date:
- March 1, 2009
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AS a homesteader without a homestead, I nevertheless practice many traditional skills, from wood chopping to wool spinning. One of my favorite activities is making wine. I first got into making my own wine when I realized I was allergic to sulfites. Nearly all commercial wines use sulfites--but they aren't necessary in home production. In this article, I will lay out the basics of wine-making: equipment, ingredients, care and feeding, and storing.
Lots of old recipes run something like this: put fruit juice into a crock, float a piece of toast with some baker's yeast on top, and leave it for two weeks. Getting something drinkable out of that is purely miraculous. ...