Skittles Vodka (with instructions) Jolly Rancher Vodka Tutorial : Mix That Drink - StumbleUpon. 3 DIY wines you can make at home. When you think of wine, more than likely you immediately think of the juice of fermented grapes, but excellent quality wine can be made from other ingredients including blackberries, plums, rose hips, cereals, flower petals — even root vegetables.
While these wines may not be too common on the shelves of your local wine shop, the beauty of home winemaking is that the sky’s the limit. You don’t have to be a master vintner or have a house full of expensive equipment to make wine. Here are three simple, all-natural recipes using strawberries, elderberries and dandelion blossoms. Use recycled wine bottles and local, organic ingredients for truly green homemade wine. 1.
Strawberry wine Contrary to what you might expect, strawberry wine is not syrupy or sickly sweet. Ingredients: 7 pounds whole fresh strawberries (fresh picked, if possible), washed and hulled2 gallons boiling waterJuice of 1 lemon5 pounds sugar Preparation: Mash strawberries in a large earthenware crock. 2. 3. A Recipe for Mead. A Recipe for Mead Elizabeth Scheyder This is a good recipe for beginners – the quantity fits in an empty gallon wine jug, and you won’t spend a fortune on ingredients or equipment. I can’t take credit for the recipe, since it came from a newsgroup called ‘mead-lovers-digest’, which I can’t find anymore. It’s attributed to Cher Feinstein, late of the University of Florida, so it has a good university pedigree, and is dated September 1989.
I took that recipe, tried it a couple of times, and made it ‘my own’. Enough history. Basic concepts about making mead: Making mead is really very simple. When you add spices to the basic honey/water/yeast mixture, it’s technically called a metheglin. You will be adding wine yeast (or sherry or champagne yeast) to do the fermenting. Ingredients: 2 or 3 cloves, lightly cracked 2 sticks of cinnamon, cracked dash of cardamom 2 to 4 teaspoons fresh lemon zest (just the thin yellow part, not the white part of the peel) 1 packet of wine yeast* Equipment: Method:
Classic Spanish Sangria Recipe.
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