Home Winemaking – ‘Y’ for Yeast #AtoZChallenge
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Home Winemaking – ‘Y’ for Yeast #AtoZChallenge

Welcome to the World of Winemaking! I’m having fun alphabetizing the home winemaking process – you can find the links to the other letters at the end of this post. Today’s letter is “Y“… we’re going to talk about Yeast! Yeast is the most critical ingredient in the wine making process. When you pick a wine…

Home Winemaking – ‘S’ for Sweet and Sanitary #AtoZChallenge
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Home Winemaking – ‘S’ for Sweet and Sanitary #AtoZChallenge

Welcome to the World of Winemaking! I’m having fun alphabetizing the home winemaking process – you can find the links to the other letters at the end of this post. Today’s letter is “S”, so we’ll talk about Sweet and Sanitary. Sweet: This is kind of self-explanatory. I happen to love a sweet wine – not sickly sweet,…

Home Winemaking – ‘M’ for Merlot, Muscat and Must #AtoZChallenge
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Home Winemaking – ‘M’ for Merlot, Muscat and Must #AtoZChallenge

Welcome to the World of Winemaking! I’m having fun alphabetizing the home winemaking process – here are the links going backwards for your convenience, in case you missed any: A for Aromas, Acidity and Appearance B for Barrels, Bottles and Blackberry Wine C for Color, Clarity, Carboys and Cherry Wine D for Decanting and Decanters…

Home Winemaking – ‘E’ for Equipment! #AtoZChallenge
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Home Winemaking – ‘E’ for Equipment! #AtoZChallenge

Welcome to the World of Winemaking! If you missed the first three letters of the alphabet, you can catch up on the Alphabetical Winemaking A, B, C, and D – I’ll wait. For “E” in this challenge, we’re going to talk about Equipment – something I learned early on when I made my very first batch…

Black Burger; Two-Faced Cake; Artistic Electricity; and some cool Coffee Chat: RTT Rebel
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Black Burger; Two-Faced Cake; Artistic Electricity; and some cool Coffee Chat: RTT Rebel

It’s October, people! Where has this year gone?! Not to mention September slipped passed while I wasn’t looking what with my stupid ear infection and all. It’s my favorite time of year, though – I love fall, and I love decorating for fall. It’s time for corn stalks and scarecrows and pumpkins and all things…

Sassy Homemade Wine – The Fun Finishing Touches
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Sassy Homemade Wine – The Fun Finishing Touches

Over the years as I’ve expanded my experimentation and varieties of winemaking, I’ve also fine tuned the finishing process.  For me.  When I start new batches of wine, during the fermentation process – or sometimes I’ll wait until the bulk aging time frame – I’ll order bottles, corks, shrink caps and make sure I have…

Sassy Homemade Wine – Bottling Wine Can Be Fun
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Sassy Homemade Wine – Bottling Wine Can Be Fun

It’s been awhile since I’ve posted about Winemaking – 12 weeks, to be exact.   Winemaking requires a lot of patience, especially during the part in between the final fermentation and racking to bottling.  Rather than bottle sooner and have the wine age in their individual bottles, I prefer to bulk-age the wine before bottling so…