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Home Brew Specialists

Whatever type of fruit you have got your going to need a homebrew recipe if you want to turn it into wine. You have probably made all the apple sauce and apple pies you want for the next how many years and they are still falling of the trees. You probably can’t bear to see them just rotting away so why don’t we make some wine or cider I hear you saying to yourself. We the starting point is we need a good homebrew recipe for making wine. Well, we can help you there, we have a website absolutely full of recipes for various types of homebrew, e.g. wine and cider. We like to think we are the experts and our homebrew recipe is simplicity. We have tried and tested them and found that they work. Don’t be tempted to use a wine making recipe that you have found in some 50 year old book. In those days they did not have the ingredients especially the different types of yeast that we now have so they had to do things differently if they were going to work.

The main ingredient for producing top quality wine is the raw material i.e. the fruit. You have the best product available so there is no excuse in not being able to produce a superb wine. However the next ingredients are just as important that is the yeast, yeast nutrient, pectolase, campden tablets, sorbate and finings. These must be of good quality and most importantly, fresh. You can have the best homebrew recipe in the world but without good wine making ingredients you will end up with poor wine. It’s a bit like buying an expensive new car and putting used oil in the engine. You just would not do it. Whatever fruit you have there is no reason why you won’t be able to turn this into some superb wine. The secret is to follow a good recipe and follow it exactly. Don’t start adding your own take on it as this is almost certain to cause problems. If you are successful then the next time you can start making a few subtle changes to the mix. Mark this clearly on your homebrew recipe and then you will know what you have done. You can change it next time if you need to or try something different.