Using your wine making kit to produce popular grape-based wines such as pinot noirs, cabernet sauvignons, Chardonnays, and pinot grigios can sometimes feel like you’ve been down that road before. However, if you’re looking to try making something new, there are many fruit wine options at your disposal. Read more…
If you’re even mildly experienced with your wine making kit, most of your friends and family members have probably tried one of your home-made wines. But how do you ensure that they try all of your wine making kit productions? Host a wine tasting party!
A wine tasting party is an easy, social way to expose all of your friends you your wine making kit skills and have a good time while doing it. Wine tasting parties don’t need to be done by professionals, and have a few rules to follow, both general and self-imposed. Read more…
It’s no secret that the number of craft and home brewers is higher than it has ever been in the United States. More and more people every year are opting for a new beer in their glass or beer making kit every chance they get, hence the unofficial motto of the craft brewing industry, “People are loyal, but not faithful.” Read more…
Octoberfest has its fair share of amazing beers and home-brewing possibilities, but there’s no single day dedicated to beer in all its glory like March 17: St. Patrick’s Day. Along with wearing green and pretending you’re Irish, the holiday can be marked with your own personal stamp of beer from your beer making kit. If the president can do it, then you can too. Read more…
Spring is a time of fresh renewal, better temperatures, and of course, spring time wines! You’ll obviously want to tailor your wine making kit endeavors to the coming season for maximize enjoyment of both the wine and the season.
Given the warmer, more comfortable spring climate and greener colors, a lighter white wine would make sense as your ideal next wine making kit creation. But if white wines are not your forte/favorite, there are red wines that are just as refreshing in the spring time. Read more…
So you’ve got a new beer making kit, a few ideas for recipes, and a stock full of quality beer making supplies. Nearing the end of your first home-brewed batch, you notice a good amount of floating sediment that makes your beer look less than appetizing. Thankfully, you’ve already consulted the following list of beer additives and chemicals used to solve this common problem. Read more…
Wine, like any other food, requires careful attention when it comes to storage to keep it from spoiling. This is no different with wine from your wine making kit, and there are multiple different places that are suitable for aging wine right in your home.
The standard answer to where to keep your home-made wine would be in a traditional wine cellar, but how many people do you know that have one or can afford that type of addition to their home? If you have a wine cellar to store your wine making kit’s next creation, then you can probably stop reading this and consider yourself extremely lucky. Read more…
Whether you are partial to a wine making kit or beer brewing kit, there are a variety of different recipes and options waiting for experimentation. But while the types of beer and wine making supplies are bountiful, there is one ingredient that crucial to the difference between flavored water and your favorite alcoholic beverage: yeast.
You could make a very strong argument that yeast is the most important ingredient in the brewing or wine making process, simply because it is the sole catalyst behind converting the sugars in the wine must and beer wort into alcohol. Read more…
When you think about wine made in the United States, the Napa Valley region of California is often the first place that jumps in your mind. That’s not surprising when you realize that the county houses the country’s biggest collective vineyard acreage.
It’s also not surprising when you consider the popularity of home wine making kits, and the United States’ rank as the fourth largest wine producer in the world and second highest consumer of the beverage. Read more…
