Editorial Reviews

Book Description:
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

Customer Reviews

good basic recipe book by J. Strickland
While this book isn’t really for the beginner it has plenty of good basic wine and mead recipies. I’ve tried several with mostly good luck. It’s also one of the few publications that have workable mead recipies. My only objection to this book is it seems to treat aging as the most important step in all wines. While it is very important, it isn’t all that makes a wine, and especially mead, great.

so much fun by Dana J. Habeck
i have tried several. there is on occasion a question about a recipe, should something be covered, stirred but since i know nothing about the generalities i need to be let by the hand. i love that they are not the kinds of wine just anyone can buy at the corner store. great fun to talk about even with non wine makers.

Not what I was expecting by Igor
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.

Inspiring but some details are missing by Lisa
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.

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