Wild Winemaking
Easy & Adventurous Recipes Going Beyond Grapes, Including Apple Champagne, Ginger–Green Tea Sake, Key Lime–Cayenne Wine, and 142 More
Author: Richard W. Bender
These 148 easy and creative home winemaking recipes forgo specialty grapes and instead use a range of readily available fruits, vegetables, flowers, and herbs to create combinations such as Black Currant Peach, Ginger Green Tea Saké, and Vanilla Rose Petal.
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These 148 easy and creative home winemaking recipes forgo specialty grapes and instead use a range of readily available fruits, vegetables, flowers, and herbs to create combinations such as Black Currant Peach, Ginger Green Tea Saké, and Vanilla Rose Petal.
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Making wine at home just got more fun, and easier, with Richard Bender s experiments. Whether you re new to winemaking or a seasoned pro, you ll find this innovative manual accessible, thanks to its focus on small batches that require minimal equipment and use an unexpected range of readily available fruits, vegetables, flowers, and herbs. The ingredient list is irresistibly curious. How about banana wine or dark chocolate peach? Plum champagne or sweet potato sake? Chamomile, sweet basil, blood orange Thai dragon, kumquat cayenne, and even cannabis rhubarb wines have earned a place in Bender s flavor collection. Go ahead, give it a try.
Critic Reviews
“"Finally! Easy-to-follow home winemaking recipes that combine common sense and fun." -- Laurie Neverman, of Common Sense Homesteading "A beautiful ode to the magical meeting of the harvest and friendly microbes. If you have tried your hand at fermentation and love fruit and flowers, you must try the wines in this book!" -- Hannah Crum Alex LaGory, best-selling authors of The Big Book of Kombucha and founders of KombuchaKamp.com”
"Finally! Easy-to-follow home winemaking recipes that combine common sense and fun." -- Laurie Neverman, of Common Sense Homesteading
"A beautiful ode to the magical meeting of the harvest and friendly microbes. If you have tried your hand at fermentation and love fruit and flowers, you must try the wines in this book!" -- Hannah Crum Alex LaGory, best-selling authors of The Big Book of Kombucha and founders of KombuchaKamp.com
About the Author
Richard W. Bender has been making wine for more than 30 years with homegrown, foraged, and store-bought fruits and vegetables. A former nurseryman, he is the author of Wild Winemaking and Bountiful Bonsai and has written for Horticulture, Field & Stream, and The Herbal Companion. He lives in Fort Collins, Colorado.
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Go Way Beyond Grapes Dare to drink differently. These 145 recipes for boldly flavored wine, sake, and champagne forgo traditional wine grapes and rely instead on familiar fruits, vegetables, and herbs - even cannabis! - to pack a scrumptious punch. One-gallon batches mean you can experiment wildly without investing a fortune in equipment or ingredients.
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