homemade wine from fruit

Homemade Wine: How To Make Wine From Any Fruit, Vegetable or Flower

Fruit wines are a great alternative to traditional grape wines, especially where it is hard to come by enough wine grape to make a batch. I have written a lot about making fruit wines and there are loads of recipes here on home brew answers.  In…
cloudy wine clearing
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Clearing a Hazy Or Cloudy Wine

It can definitely be frustrating to spend time making wine, waiting months for it to ferment and condition only for it to be hazy or cloudy. A slight haze in wine isn't a major problem but it can be annoying. Certain wines may be more…
Champagne Yeast
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Champagne Yeast – A Complete Guide

If you have ever made a fruit, floral or vegetable wine yourself you will probably be familiar with the term “champagne yeast”. You are probably thinking, why use champagne yeast, what is champagne yeast and why is it any different…
Rosehip Wine
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Rosehip Wine Recipe – Wild, Delicate Rose Wine

Rosehips are the fruit of the rose plant and although they are bright red and full of hairy pips which need to be removed they are edible (or drinkable). Rosehip wine is one of the best country wines especially in the range of fruits that…
Yeast Attenuation
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Yeast Attenuation – A Complete Guide

Yeast attenuation is a measure of how much of the sugar in a beer wort or wine must a yeast will ferment. In this article, we will take a look at what attenuation actually means, how to measure it and why we should think about the attenuation…
mango wine recipe
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Mango Wine Recipe – Tropical & Golden Wine

Mango is one of my favourite fruits. I love that tropical, sweet, juicy flavour and although I have used it in beer and mead I have hadn’t made a mango wine until recently. Mango wine is bright, golden yellow and has that tropical…
Wine Yeasts

Complete Guide To Wine Yeast

The amount of wine yeast strains available to homebrewers is vast and getting bigger all the time.  Choosing a wine yeast for your next wine now means looking through the offerings of 3 or 4 different yeast producers then reading the…
Staggered Nutrient Additions
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Staggered Nutrient Additions For Mead & Country Wines

Yeast nutrients are really important in mead making and for making country wines (fruit, floral or vegetable wines other than grapes). Along with this when and how they are added can make a difference, staggered nutrient additions are beneficial…
Wine Chemicals & Additives

A Guide To Winemaking Chemicals & Additives

Winemaking has a simplicity in which you take a few ingredients, grapes or fruit, sugar, water and yeast and produce a drink with great complexity. To get the most from these ingredients we need to help them along, this help comes from…
Beetroot Wine Recipe
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Beetroot Wine Recipe

Beetroot wine is not as peculiar as it may sound. I think a lot of vegetable wines have a bad reputation that isn't wholly deserved.  Beetroot wine doesn't evoke the same fruity, delicious thoughts as perhaps a blackberry wine but…