We are always looking for ways to turn everything into an alcoholic beverage. Our Liquor experiments have been quite successful, but to get a little less alcohol content, we decided to go with wine. Here are our recipes for a variety of different wines, ranging from different ways to make a Niagara/Concord grape blend from the grapes we grow in the backyard to dandelion wine.
Wine
Dandelion Wine
We have all heard of dandelion wine. I wanted to make some and didn't know how. I read some of the on-line stuff and was surprised by recipes that seemed to call for a lot of added flavors (other…
Niagara/Concord Blend-Using a Gallon Jug
How about just making wine in a gallon on top of the kitchen table. I didn't think of this one, it's an old Mennonite recipe and it really worked! Let me tell you, this stuff was a real hit. Sweet…
Niagara/Concord Blend-Using Plastic Jugs
Time to make wine. Well, the year is 2007 and the barrels are over 40 years old! Looked at the price of new 15 gallon oak barrels (over $300) and had to look elsewhere. How about those nice five…
Niagara/Concord Blend-Hand Crushed Mico Brew
Don't have a wine press and all that fancy stuff? How about a little hand-squeasing! Here are some steps I took to make a micro-brew. After making the big wine, there were still some grapes on the…
Niagara/Concord Blend-With an Oak Barrel
Well, here is a useful skill! How to make home made wine the old fashioned way. No carboys of juice, no air locks, no wine yeast, no hydrometer -- just natural fermentation run wild**! And if you…