El Dorado Home Wine Making Website - Home Wine Making Information and Wine Recipes
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- 1. Improving the Taste and Color of Wine with pH Control
- (Home Wine Making)
- ... may use automatic pH control equipment as part of their wine manufacturing process. It is best to monitor pH levels periodically throughout the wine production process. Adjustments can be made by adding ...
- Created on 29 November 2021
- 2. "Instant Wine
- (Fruit Wine)
- "INSTANT" WINE by A. S. Henderson If you have just started winemaking and want an 8 % wine which is suitable for table use, quickly—made, rapid to mature, and low-priced, try this "instant wine" recipe ...
- Created on 11 November 2016
- 3. pH Analysis
- (Wine Making Information)
- ... other complicated potentiometric techniques (which were often very complicated and time consuming). However, these methods often had limitations that made them unreliable for determining pH (litmus can ...
- Created on 27 October 2016
- 4. Dried Bilberry Wine (Elderberry or Sloe)
- (Fruit Wine)
- ... daily for a week, pushing the fruit down. Strain into fermenting jar, ferment, rack when clear, and bottle. An excellent dry red table wine, best made with a Bordeaux or Pommard yeast. For a sweet wine ...
- Created on 27 October 2016
- 5. Concord Grape Wine Recipe
- (Fruit Wine)
- ... complex vintages. Here are two recipes that are vastly different in style, yet both utilize Concord grapes. Homemade Dry Concord Grape Wine Recipe 1 gallon water 10 lbs Concord grapes 1 1/2 cups sugar ...
- Created on 27 October 2016
- 6. Strawberry Wine
- (Fruit Wine)
- ... filter pads. If you have never made a fruit wine, this is the fruit to start with. Homemade strawberry wine is very forgiving to blunders and mishaps that come along with new wine making territory. And ...
- Created on 27 October 2016
- 7. Planting a Vineyard
- (Wine Making Information)
- ... to consult your county agricultural agent about taking a soil sample and having a complete analysis made. The results of such an analysis can be used as a guide in preparing the soil before the roots are ...
- Created on 27 October 2016
- 8. Peach Wine Recipe
- (Fruit Wine)
- Peach Wine Recipe Recipe for 1 gallon of peach wine. Multiply ingredients by # of gallons to be made. 3 lbs peaches 1 1/2 - 2 lbs sugar (starting SG should be 1.085-90) 1 1/2 tsp. Acid ...
- Created on 27 October 2016
- 9. Common Grape Guide
- (Wine Making Information)
- ... floral aromas while packing a strong fig-guava punch. Gewürztraminer Typically thought of as a German varietal, this grape actually originated in northern Italy. It is often made in sweet or off-dry ...
- Created on 24 October 2016
- 10. The Nature of Corks
- (Wine Making Information)
- ... are made from bark harvested from living trees has encouraged European environmentalists to encourage the use of cork over other, less natural alternatives. Cork forests not only reduce the need for other ...
- Created on 24 October 2016
- 11. The Home Winemakers' Wine Lab
- (Wine Making Information)
- ... a glass or plastic cylinder sealed at the bottom, containing the wine or must to be tested. Ideally, the liquid should be at 60° F when the reading is made. In rough terms, 0.001 should be subtracted from ...
- Created on 26 August 2016
- 12. Blueberry Wine
- (Fruit Wine)
- Back to Fruit Wine Recipes Blueberry Wine Recipe for 1 gallon of blueberry wine. Multiply ingredients by # of gallons to be made. You can use fresh or frozen fruit. Frozen works great! 3 lbs blueberries ...
- Created on 15 August 2016
- 13. Sulphur Dioxide (SO2) in Winemaking
- (Wine Making Information)
- ... keep the stuff around for more than a year before buying fresh. “Campden” tablets are made of potassium metabisulphite. Each tablet, when fresh, contains 0.44 grams of it. However, if they are old, a ...
- Created on 10 August 2016
- 14. Mead Wine Recipes
- (Fruit Wine)
- ... is a short list of the most popular types: MEAD - Made with honey only. This term is now used generically to collectively refer to all types of honey wines such as those listed below. PYMENT - This ...
- Created on 15 September 2015
- 15. Wine Tasting Course
- (Wine Making Information)
- ... for it -- gout de goudron -- according to Frank Schoonmaker's Encyclopedia of Wine, which notes that the smell, "far from disagreeable ... is usually one of the characteristics of a fine red wine made from ...
- Created on 22 August 2015
- 16. Sulphur Dioxide in WineMaking
- (Home Wine Making)
- ... keep the stuff around for more than a year before buying fresh. “Campden” tablets are made of potassium metabisulphite. Each tablet, when fresh, contains 0.44 grams of it. However, if they are old, a ...
- Created on 22 August 2015
- 17. Wine Glossary
- (Uncategorised)
- ... made from this variety. Alicante Bouchet: A red wine grape, originally from Spain, used in France's Burgundy region to add color to Burgundy blends. Also used in central California for table wines, ...
- Created on 29 January 2015
- 18. Food Recipes
- (Recipes)
- ... a year to get a taste for you efforts. Now that you have made a great batch of wine, you need to made a great meal to enjoy the wine. Cioppino Egg Rolls Grilled Tri-Tip of Beef Helaman's Spareribs ...
- Created on 29 January 2015
- 19. Port Wine Instructions
- (Home Wine Making)
- ... in. I have made my port from Carmine, a Merlot based hybrid from UC Davis and have tasted good port made from Zinfandel, Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot. In general, grapes that have good fruit flavor seem ...
- Created on 29 January 2015
- 20. Obtaining More Alcohol
- (Uncategorised)
- ... the yeast" technique. This allows the yeast to slowly get used to the high alcohol content. A must of S. G. 1.080 is made up and fermented down to 1.000 - 1.005. At this point, while it is still fermenting, ...
- Created on 16 September 2014