Making Wild Wines & Meads: 125 Unusual Recipes Using Herbs, Fruits, Flowers & More 
asked by guitarplayer on November 22, 2006 11:49 PM
Make Extraordinary Homemade Wines from Everything but Grapes! Exotic wines, honey meads, spicy metheglins, and fruity melomels-there's no end to the great-tasting elixirs you can make using ingredients from your local market and even your own backyard! You'll find easy, step-by-step winemaking instructions plus memorable recipes, including: .Apricot Wine .Dry Mead .Marigold Wine .Almond Wine .Cherry Melomel .Cranberry Claret .Pea Pod Wine .Lemon-Thyme Metleglin .Strawberry Wine .Rose Hip Melomel
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From the title, I was expecting this book to be along the same lines as "Wild Fermentation," by Sandor Ellix Katz. It wasn't.
There are about three paragraphs in this book that discuss wild fermentation (i.e. fermenting wine with nothing but the wild yeast in the atmosphere), and those paragraphs contained several inaccuracies (for example, wild yeast exists everywhere, not just on the skins of grapes, and these yeasts will ferment anything containing sugar, not just grape juice).
This book wasn't by any means bad, it just wasn't what I thought it would be.
There are about three paragraphs in this book that discuss wild fermentation (i.e. fermenting wine with nothing but the wild yeast in the atmosphere), and those paragraphs contained several inaccuracies (for example, wild yeast exists everywhere, not just on the skins of grapes, and these yeasts will ferment anything containing sugar, not just grape juice).
This book wasn't by any means bad, it just wasn't what I thought it would be.
reviewed by miceandmen on November 27, 2006 7:36 AM
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I got this book for my first winemaking book, and used one of
the blackberry wine recipes for my first batch. The recipes
are just recipes, without the minute detail, and it was hard
to turn back and forth from the recipes to the 'how to' intro
to get the general detailed steps, and there were a couple of
steps that I wasn't sure exactly what to do. Also, there are
tips I could have used, for example the siphoning; the book
makes it sound simple but it was very frustrating, and there
are tools available to start the siphon that I hope will be
very useful.
The book is very inspiring and the recipes are diverse and
interesting, I expect to use it again.
the blackberry wine recipes for my first batch. The recipes
are just recipes, without the minute detail, and it was hard
to turn back and forth from the recipes to the 'how to' intro
to get the general detailed steps, and there were a couple of
steps that I wasn't sure exactly what to do. Also, there are
tips I could have used, for example the siphoning; the book
makes it sound simple but it was very frustrating, and there
are tools available to start the siphon that I hope will be
very useful.
The book is very inspiring and the recipes are diverse and
interesting, I expect to use it again.
reviewed by runningscared on November 27, 2006 4:16 PM