Monday, November 10, 2008

Your Own Home Made Wine! How To Get Started

By Georgia Sutherland

Making your own wine is a hobby that is growing quickly. There's a variety of reasons for this.

First, the information on how to make wine, and recipes for wine making have been easier and easier to obtain. Many books and how to manuals have been published just this past year.

One other reason is that making your own wine can be a lot less expensive than purchasing wine in the store.You can make wine for pennies per bottle. Big difference from the ever increasing prices of commercial wine.

And then there is the most important reason of all. Making your own wine is really gratifying and plain old fun. Sipping your perfectly fermented fruit or grape wine that you prepared and nursed, and followed from cleaning the fruit to racking, bottling and now drinking is just nourishment for the soul.

Home made wine can be a wonderful and one of a kind gift, of course in a beautiful bottle and with your own label. Having friends and family over for wine tastings of various wines you have made is another fun aspect of home wine making.

Getting started making wine can be very easy. You do not need expensive equipment and fancy gadgets. What you do need is a fermentation vessel. This can be a five gallon bucket. Then you will need an air lock, which you can purchase inexpensively or make yourself and a few other smaller items.

Making wine at home can be categorized in three different ways:

1. Using a purchased wine kit. Just add water and follow the instructions.

2. Purchasing fruit juices from your local store.

3. Using fresh fruits and berries to make your wine.

Once you make your first batch of wine there is no going back. The satisfaction of sipping your own home made wine is simply delicious.

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