Wild Winemaking: Easy & Adventurous Recipes Going Beyond Grapes, Including Apple Champagne, Ginger-Green Tea Sake, Key Lime-Cayenne Wine, and 142 More

by Richard W. Bender

Overview

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 saké? 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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781612127897
Publisher:	Storey Publishing, LLC
Publication date:	02/20/2018
Pages:	272
Sales rank:	1,054,173
Product dimensions:	7.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.70(d)

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.
 

Table of Contents

Preface
Part One: Getting Started
1: Equipment and Supplies
2: My Winemaking Process
Part Two: The Recipes
3: Fruit and Vegetable Wines
    Apple
    Apple Champagne
    Apricot
    Banana
    Bing Cherry
    Blackberry
    Blackberry-Peach
    Blackberry-Rhubarb
    Black Currant
    Black Currant-Peach
    Black Currant-Rhubarb
    Blueberry
    Blueberry-Apple
    Blueberry-Chocolate-Chocolate Mint
    Blueberry-Peach
    Blueberry-Pear
    Blueberry-Rhubarb
    Buddha's Hand
    Burgundy Kale
    Calamondin Orange
    Cape Gooseberry
    Cherry
    Cherry-Black Currant
    Cherry-Chocolate-Almond
    Cherry-Rhubarb
    Chinese Sumac
    Chokecherry
    Chokecherry-Apricot
    Chokecherry-Rhubarb
    Chokecherry-Wild Plum
    Concord Grape
    Crabapple
    Crabapple-Mint
    Damson Plum
    Dark Chocolate-Peach
    Elderberry
    Elderberry-Apple
    Elderberry-Peach
    Elderberry-Rhubarb
    Fig
    Ginger-Squash Sake
    Golden Raspberry
    Grapefruit
    Juniper-Plum
    Kiwifruit
    Mulberry
    Nectarine
    Orange
    Orange-Cranberry
    Ozark Pumpkin Sake
    Peach
    Pear
    Pear-Black Currant
    Pineapple
    Plum
    Plum Champagne
    Plum-Rhubarb
    Plum Sake
    Pomegranate
    Raspberry Champagne
    Red Grape
    Rhubarb
    Sake
    Spiced Peach
    Spiced Peach-Apricot
    Strawberry
    Strawberry-Chocolate
    Strawberry Guava
    Strawberry-Peach-Rhubarb
    Strawberry-Rhubarb
    Sweet Potato Sake
    Thompson Seedless Grape
    Tomato Italiano
    White Mulberry
    Wild Persimmon
    Wild Plum
4: Flower and Herb Wines
    Black Locust Flower
    Blue Spice Basil
    Chamomile
    Chamomile-Star Anise
    Chocolate-Chocolate Mint
    Cinnamon Basil
    Dandelion
    Double Lemon-Lime-Basil
    Elderflower
    French Tarragon
    Ginger-Green Tea Sake
    Hibiscus Flower
    Jasmine Flower
    Lavender
    Lilac Flower
    Oregano
    Peppermint
    Pink Rosebud
    Rose Petal
    Rose Hip
    Rosemary
    Spearmint
    Sweet Basil
    Thyme
    Triple Basil
    Vanilla-Rose Petal
5: Hot Pepper Wines
    Blood Orange-Thai Dragon
    Buddha's Hand-Cherry Bomb
    Calamondin Orange-Chocolate-Habanero
    Calamondin Orange Mole
    Calamondin Orange-Peach-Habanero
    Chocolate-Peach-Cherry Bomb
    Citrus Symphony
    Jalapeno-Lime
    Key Lime-Cayenne
    Key Lime-Cherry Bomb
    Key Lime-Golden Cayenne
    Kumquat-Cayenne
    Kumquat-Kung Pao
    Lemon-Cayenne
    Lemon-Lemon Drop
    Limequat-Apache
    Limequat-Mariachi
    Mandarin-Chocolate-Chocolate Habanero
    Mandarin-Devil's Tongue
    Navel Orange-Kung Pao
    Orange Ghost
    Orange Mole
    Peach-Cherry Bomb
    Pineapple-Cherry Bomb
    Pineapple-Citrus Symphony
    Pink Grapefruit-Kung Pao
    Pomegranate-Citrus Symphony
    Red Jalapeno-Lime
    Tangerine-Brain Strain
    Tangerine-Cayenne
    Tomato-Cayenne
    Tomato-Jalapeno
    Ujukitsu (Lemon)-Cherry Bomb
6: Cannabis Wines
    Appleweed
    Cannabis-Rhubarb (Cannabarb)
    Christmas Cannabis
    Christmas in July
    Mary Jane's Grapes
    Medical Marijuana
    Plum Pot
7: Enjoying the Fruits of Your Labor
Acknowledgment
Metric Conversion Charts
Index

Editorial 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

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