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Go Way Beyond Grapes
Dare to drink differently. These 145 recipes for boldly flavored wine, sake, and champagne forgo traditional wine grapes and rely instead on familiar fruits, vegetables, and herbs – even cannabis! – to pack a scrumptious punch. One-gallon batches mean you can experiment wildly without investing a fortune in equipment or ingredients.
List 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
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.
Summary
These 148 easy and creative home winemaking recipes forgo specialty grapes and instead use a range of readily available fruits, vegetables, flowers, and herbs to create combinations such as Black Currant Peach, Ginger Green Tea Saké, and Vanilla Rose Petal.
Foreword
These 148 easy and creative home winemaking recipes forgo specialty grapes and instead use a range of readily available fruits, vegetables, flowers, and herbs to create combinations such as Black Currant Peach, Ginger Green Tea Saké, and Vanilla Rose Petal.
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“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
