Home Wine Making

Humans have been making wine in their homes for thousands of years. Virtually anyone can make good wine with a minimun of equipment and expense. You can make wine from a variety of different fruits and flowers. Grape, of course, is the most popular wine fruit, but blackberries, cherries, elderberries and blueberries also make excellent wine. Flowers which make good wines include dandelion and locust blossom.

According to Federal law since 1978 a homeowner may make up to 200 gallons of wine and beer for their own consumption. Home wine making before that was illegal, but many people still did it. Since it has become legal, there has been an explosion of new supplies, concentrates, yeasts and other supplies needed by the home wine maker.

Making good wine at home is not only legal now, but easy and fun as well. It is not for the person used to immediate gratification, though. Fermenting the wine will take a minimun of a couple of months, and most wines benefit from ageing for at least a few months before comsumption.

There are many choices out there for the home wine maker as to ingredients used to make the wine. You can use fresh fruit, dried fruit or frozen concetrates. Certain flowers, like dandelion, make excellent wine as well. Dandelions can be freshly picked from the lawn, or purchased dried in packages.

Any online wine supplier will have many different types of yeast, cleaners, bottles, corks and anything else you need to make your own great wine at home. And best of all, after you have learned a bit about the home wine making art, you will be able to craft your wine to suit your own palate. Use these pages as a resouce to learn to make your own great wines at home.

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