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Making Wine from Grapes - The Method
If you've read my Guide to Making Wine from Grapes, here is the method designed to follow on from that post.
Apr 36 min read


Making Wine from Grapes in your garden - a Guide
In this guide I will outline what you need to know as well as the ingredients you ideally include and the equipment you need for Making Wine from Grapes.
Mar 247 min read


Quick Pickled Red Onions
I enjoy making pickles and chutneys. But sometimes I just like a quick pickle to add zing to a dish. These quick pickled red onions are great with just about everything. They are ready to eat almost immediately though benefit from being left to meld in the fridge overnight, both taste-wise and for colour as the vinegar has time to turn pink. This is a reader-supported site and I am an Amazon affiliate. That means that if you purchase a product or service using my one of my li
Mar 235 min read


Preparing Fruit And Extracting the Juice for Winemaking
Preparing Fruit for wine, mead and cidermaking isn't as difficult as you might think. Here is a simple way to extract juice. The main difference between working with fruit and vegetables that you have grown or bought rather than foraged is preparation. Whilst small foraged fruits can sometimes be fiddly, apples or strawberries from the shop tend to be quicker and simpler to deal with.
Mar 224 min read


How to Rack Homemade Wine, Beer, Cider and Mead using a Simple Syphon
Racking is the process of transferring homemade wine, beer, cider or mead from one vessel to another. You can use a simple syphon to do that.
Mar 166 min read


How to make Honey Blaand or Fermented Milk Mead
Blaand can best be described as a kind of Milk Mead made with whey and honey, which has usually come from cheese made with milk. This is how you make Honey Blaand and, if you don't have any whey, I also cover how to make your own whey before making your Blaand.
Feb 277 min read
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