A few weeks ago I talked about how I was going to try to make a frugal version of R.J. Spangles White Chocolate Port wine. Today I am going to give an update on that wine. A couple of weeks ago, the wine had cleared nicely and I racked it off the sediment. I took [...]
Last Saturday we had wine class again at the Porter House Brew Shop. It was a good class with some new wine makers learning the basics. I always enjoy getting new people started in this hobby, and we will have some new wine makers now.
I made an Apple Wine for class that night and [...]
I’ve been trying to grow wine grapes for years. I am still climbing the learning curve and Mother Nature likes to make it interesting, so I only got a couple of pounds of grapes this year. We had a late frost in my area, and my vines got hit pretty hard. I harvested 3 lbs [...]
Last week I made a nice discovery in my wine cellar. I found a bottle of wine I did not know I had. I did not know I had it because it was labeled wrong. Here is the story.
Back in 2005 I made an Orange Wine. The recipe called for adding orange peels to the [...]
Last Saturday we started our wine making classes back up at Porter House Brew Shop. We made Elderberry wine. (Just follow the link for the recipe we used.) We had a good time learning about how to make home made wine.
One of the questions I had was how much air to leave in the top [...]
Today I am going to talk about how to sweeten home made wine. Most of my fruit wine finishes very dry. When a wine is too dry, the only thing I can taste is the acid in the wine. I like to bring the fruit flavor out even in my dry wines. I am going [...]
It is Elderberry season and time to shuck Elderberries! I’ve been trying a new method to clean the elderberries that I am going to share with you. I also have information on shucking elderberries on my Elderberry Project page.
I love Elderberry Wine, but cleaning the Elderberries is time consuming. I’ve been trying to find new [...]
Here at Frugal Wine Making, I’m always looking for ways to save a couple of dollars in my wine making. One way I did that was by building my own wine rack in the new house. I read a thread in Wine Press about how to make a wine rack out of pallets. I didn’t [...]
