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My wife got me Wild Wine Making by Richard W. Bender. It was pretty inspirational to me to consider other ingredients, like jalapeno in my wines. I don't consider it as much of a technical manual. Right now I'm borrowing The Drunken Botanist by Amy Stewart from my mother. It's not at all...

From your title, I assumed you meant pulp, so here's my take on pulp, not lees. I've tried a couple methods. I blend my fruits and simmer them on the stove for an hour before cooling them and tossing in the campden tablets. I've tried screening the pulp out before starting primary, and it's...

Because I needed filler and they were handy, but also the potatoes help mitigate the high citric acid content of the lemons. Also, for some reason a lot of my best wines have had potatoes. Edit: Friday now and I racked it to secondary. I screened the bottom few inches, lost about a gallon. I...

I, too, was inspired by this recipe last week. I started on the 28th, but as usual, I can't leave well enough alone and I went pretty sideways. I don't like the idea of using bottled lemon juice so I bought twenty lemons and put them in the blender, whole, with a box of reconstituted raisins. I...

I have a 3'x10' patch of wild blackberries growing in my back yard, and I've used them in a few wines, but I've never made just blackberry wine. They make a decent pie, but the seeds are a bit larger than the domesticated blackberry, so wine is really the best use for them. Very low-maintenance...

Greetings from Choctaw. I have a few batches of wine under my belt and I start a new 5 gallon batch about every other month. I try to use fruit from my backyard as much as I can. Almost all my wines have been my own recipes. My successes: Blackberry-Cherry dessert wine Jalapeno-Lime wine from a...

I've been reusing liquor bottles if they have nice caps. If you know a bartender, they can probably hook you up with plenty of empties. I also occasionally find swing-top liter bottles for under two bucks a piece. My friends and family know they need to return the bottles if they want more wine.

Wow! Just discovered this forum. I've been making wine for a couple years now, and I'm pretty sure I'm mostly doing it wrong, but my successes outnumber my failures. I just bottled a Banana-Potato wine that I started in January. My wife keeps buying bananas, and we're always left with a couple...