Winemaking Helpful Hints and Tips

If you are a student, or just an impatient person like me, then you just won't have the time to wait a year or thereabouts for homemade wine to be ready to drink. You don't have to wait that long if you take a short cut. Use a kit from somewhere like Wilkinsons and you can have drinkable wine in around a month. It works out much cheaper than buying it by the bottle. These kits vary in price depending on what is included. You can buy the whole thing including bottles for under twenty pounds and set yourself as a 'mini vintners'. It's much cheaper to buy a tub containing yeast, concentrated fruit extract, and full instructions. This ...  Read the complete review

Home made wine is a lot easier than you might htink. I would recomend getting a good book, but here are some tips that will give you some ideas. Equiptment - one big container with a lid, glass Demi-Johns, empty wine bottles, corks, a plastic tube for siphoning off your wine, a bag for straining your wine, wine yeast, sugar, fruit (Or veg) . Most of these can be bought from Boots. You can get packages of stuff to use instead of fruit, but that isn't much fun at all. If you can eat it and it is a plant, then you can make wine out of it. There are also flowers that make good wine, but to avoid poisoning yourself, I recomend sticking to things ...  Read the complete review