Any tips on home brew

Spirits can also be made by freezing wine, and removing all the ice crystals. This method isn't as effective as distilling but still makes some pretty potent drinks. Again, this method is illegal, but it reduces the risk of fire and explosions.

I make Blackberry and Plum wine. As well as growing Pinot Noir grapes in my garden and making wine from them. The biggest trick to making great wine from almost any fruit is to completely avoid adding water at any stage

Paulie at Hamburger Deluxe has been allowing me to post some of my weekly wine columns (for a local newspaper) at his aformentioned Hamburger Deluxe website

My own website is all about wine, too... http://www.geocities.com/douglas_sloan/

Did I mention being involved in the In Vino Veritas Clan????
We have some wine threads on our forum http://www.invinoveritas.proboards41.com/index.cgi?

Originally posted by widget
I make Blackberry and Plum wine. As well as growing Pinot Noir grapes in my garden and making wine from them. The biggest trick to making great wine from almost any fruit is to completely [b]avoid adding water at any stage

Paulie at Hamburger Deluxe has been allowing me to post some of my weekly wine columns (for a local newspaper) at his aformention ...[text shortened]... ??
We have some wine threads on our forum http://www.invinoveritas.proboards41.com/index.cgi?[/b]

Originally posted by Vivaldi
I want to make strong spirits and wine and beer and maybe cider, I believe herbs can be used to make wine, that sounds cool.

I am new to this so any tips will be of great help, thank you 🙂

My family has been making home made wine every year for the past 30 years and if i have any tips it's this;

Try to find oak barrells, they are very rare and expensive so if you can't, leave a bit of oak in the type of wine you want to make and let it sit there for a week. Then when you ferment the wine in a aluminium barrel put the bit of oak in there.

Make sure everything is sterilised.

Keep the wine simple, the more you mix it with stuff the more it will come out cr@p.

Try to use the natural yeast found on the skin of the grapes. You can wash this off and use artificial yeast but it just don't taste as good and it's more work.

Be very selective which grapes you use. Eg Merlo, Ruby, Cab Sav. Go to a winery and pick a box from them. guranteed succsess!

Try to drink it quick, that way you dont need preservetives so you wont get a huge headache in the morning.

Originally posted by Varg
What do you add instead of water?
Because pure elderbery juice would be pretty strong tasting I think.

elderberry non-berry/non-flower portions (twigs, leaves, stems, etc.) are poisonous ...

in U.S. you can make 200 gallons of wine a year for personal use if you file forms, i think ...

try making dandelion wine ...