Got a 6 gallon Carboy and a desire to learn how to make wine. Looking for known good recipes. Do any have a suggestion or 2?
Got a 6 gallon Carboy and a desire to learn how to make wine. Looking for known good recipes. Do any have a suggestion or 2?
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I would suggest going into a local wine making store, and buying a kit. (plus a few other things - siphons, filters, hydrometer, thermometer, buckets, etc) Start with a standard kit of something you like, make a batch to see how it's done, and then try again but play with the recipe. Do that a couple times and then venture out into making from scratch.
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It had a few good ones, as well as my fathers recipes he had made, but that was many moons ago. I would advice doing a bit of research on this new fangled infra web thing, and if it sounds good, try it. But I would also advise trying new recipes in smaller batches, so if it tastes like rat piss, you don't have to drink 5 gallons of rat piss just because you don't want to waste it.
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For someday sons and daughters
Will rise up and fight while we stood still"
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^Even the worst wine can be used as mix if you add enough hard stuff.
Give a man fire, and he'll be warm for a day!
Light a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life!
Cat's are food... not friends!
If you're going to fight, then fight like you're the third monkey on the ramp into Noah's arc... and brother, it's starting to rain.
I shudder at the thought...you don't add 'hard stuff' to a fine wine...you knuckle dragging Neanderthal.Originally Posted by Sniper-T
"Teach the children quietly
For someday sons and daughters
Will rise up and fight while we stood still"
I stayed up all night to see where the sun went. Then it dawned on me.
no one said anything about a 'fine wine' We're talking about the 'rat piss' that you're dreading swilling. who knows, maybe some rat piss would make your Jack even palatable...
Oh, and I'm not flexible enough to drag my knuckles, but the ground sure does keep my fingernails short.
lol
Give a man fire, and he'll be warm for a day!
Light a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life!
Cat's are food... not friends!
If you're going to fight, then fight like you're the third monkey on the ramp into Noah's arc... and brother, it's starting to rain.
Fair enough, but I don't thing even rat piss would make Jack drinkable. I'm a Wild Turkey guy, remember
"Teach the children quietly
For someday sons and daughters
Will rise up and fight while we stood still"
I stayed up all night to see where the sun went. Then it dawned on me.
Same shit! both aspire to one day be rat piss, and hold all the reverence that a high quality rat piss demands.
Give a man fire, and he'll be warm for a day!
Light a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life!
Cat's are food... not friends!
If you're going to fight, then fight like you're the third monkey on the ramp into Noah's arc... and brother, it's starting to rain.
There are several good websites regarding wine making. It is something I have wanted to do for sometime. I have a purchased a few books but we have not done anything about producing any wine. Heck, I would like to even use some of my own "estate grown" merlot grapes for some wine.
Online, check out E.C. Krauss. There are some great online sources to buy grapes or frozen crush from some of the top vineyards in the Napa/Sonoma area.
Good luck, let us know how it goes!
Socal you are wrong, I am from Sonoma and we make great wine up here, all Napa can make is good auto parts.
Viodin so you want to make wine??? Well you need to do research soooooo you need to come out here and go wine tasting. I know just the person to show you around and you will not be disappointed. Now if you choose to pursue the book route without doing the research I really can't help you.
Sniper if the wine you make is so bad you want to add "hard stuff" to it to make it drinkable, then I suggest three things. One save the hard stuff and just drink it straight. Two, let it turn to vinegar, which will taste like shit too. Three take it and turn it into brandy, (hint the best choice!!!!!!), I learned this from a couple of old Italians last week. So there you have it you have not wasted your hard stuff but actually increased it.
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