Sunday, April 5, 2009

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.

one is that for the few past years, there has been a number of books published on home wine making, and a number of "How to" manuals providing the information needed to get started.

Another reason is that you can make your own wine for only pennies per bottle. Many are cutting costs these days, and why not make your own wine when it can be a substantial savings.

But my favorite reason is that it is just plain fun to make your own wine. There is something so gratifying to choose the fruit, choose the recipe and the type of yeast, prepare the must, nurse it, follow the fermentation... all the steps until you can uncork your own proudly made delicious and unique wine.

Homemade wine is also a very special gift for someone. With your own label, of course.

It is easy to get started even of you have never made wine before. There is no need to purchase expensive equipment or gadgets. You will need a few simple and inexpensive things such as a vessel to do the fermenting in. -that can be a five gallon bucket, and air lock and some tubing to decant the wine with.

Basically, there are three levels of making your own wine.

1. Using a wine kit which already have all the ingredients, including instructions.

2. Making wine from fresh or frozen fruit juices bought in your local store.

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

Home wine making can be quite addictive. Once you have one nice batch of good wine, the imagination can run wild of what you can accomplish.

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