Recent content by DollyO

Has any one used thistle honey in their wine? One of my husband's co-workers, wants to trade a gallon of wine for a gallon of thistle honey. I use honey in my peach Melomel. Read the description of flavor, said it has an anise flavor. Don't like anise.

Peach/Honey Melomel I made 5 gallons of peach/honey melomel. Used 21 lbs of frozen peaches, 15# of local honey. The PA initially was 25%. Used Lalvin's 71B1122. Racked 3 times over a 6 month period. Sweetened w/Torani's Peach Syrup. Very good when we bottled it. Having a hard time leaving it to...

I don't know how detailed you want this recipe. This is the basic for 1 gallon. If you want step by step, please let me know. 4# wild blueberries 3# sugar 3 3/4 qt. water 2 tsp acid blend 1/8 tsp tannin 1 tsp yeast nutrient 1 Campden tabled (crushed) 1/2 tsp pectic enzyme 1 pkt...

We don't have the availability of wild blueberries in our area. So Kroger had them at a whopping price of $4 a lb. Bought 4 lbs to make 1 gallon of dessert wine. Just racked it into the carboy. Going to be very blueberry. DollyO

Used a recipe out of my winemaking book. Added 1 oz grated ginger, 10 cloves, 3 cinnamon sticks. We always taste at each step of the process. When it was racked into the carboy, it was very gingery (just a tad to much). Put 2 cinnamon sticks in the gallon and 1 in the 750 ml bottle. When it's...

I have a couple of gallons of apple cider left from the holidays. Looking for a recipe for a spiced apple wine using cider as the base. I will probably pick up another gallon, just because. Looked thru the recipes here, but didn't find one that starts w/cider. Thanks, Dolly

My husband and I have been making wine since 2011. We'd talked about it and then he cleaned out my rhubarb patch. So then I decided to make rhubarb melomel. Then made raspberry wine from our own raspberry patch. Made a very novice mistake, not using enough stabilizer, and LOL, we had corks...