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Wine Making. Tips, equipment, recipes and supply ideas
If its not moving, fermet it
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Top Tips - home wine making tips
Life and wine making - confessions of a lapsed winemaker
Southampton is rife with people drooling over their bubbling buckets of wine.
The list of wine making converts grows steadily by the evil pressgang forces of Tom and Alec.
Join the fun and make a name in the art of wine making.
This site has been set up for preaching our particular philosophy
concerning the ancient art of wine making. It is aimed generally at students or other similarly
poor people, despite the bias towards Southampton, our ideas are applicable
anywhere on the planet where people making wine.
In my recent experiments in wine making, I've explored a lot of the more techical side such as measuring acid and sulfite and acid, and trying to use a bit of advanced wine making lore to produce more consistant results.
Special Feature: Our highly popular glossary of wine making terms.
Our highly popular glossary of wine making terms.
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Our thoughts and ideas divide up as follows.
- Philosophy. A little idealogical introduction to the art of making wine at home.
- Equipment. All the paraphernalia you will need. Avoid expensive kit an equipment.
- Ingredients. A selection of ideas for what you can make wine out of. You'd be amazed where you can find a supply of ingredients.
- Method. The actions and rituals whereby wine is produced. Our own technique and method for making wine.
- Wine Tasting. A few pointers on tasting wine.
The latest greatest section - The Art of Sake. Making Sake at home
If the jargon gets too much for you, we give you :
to add colour to your confusion.
While we may claim to be the definitive guide to down-to-earth wine making,
we are by no means the only approach that exists. Much has been written on the subject,
both physically and virtually. Thus we provide a kind of bibliography.
I'm a developer and business consultant. I'm normally involved in retail management software systems and ecommerce.
Historical Note: These pages were written in the mid 1990s when I was a student and hardly anybody wrote web pages.
The internet was a very different place in those days. The original site had some, urm,
exciting colour schemes. The site has sat collecting dust on a friends webpage for many years.
I personally stopped home winemaking years ago.. no time you see. However, I was still getting
the occasional email referencing these pages, and the site was still getting a reasonable number of
hits per day. Recently I have decided to dust it off, spruce it up a bit and generally make it
something that won't cause eye damage to read. A lot of the content is the untouched original - it has stood the test of
time, and it would be sacrilegious to change it after all these years. So - here it is, warts and all.
Happy fermenting
Written and maintained by Tom How, including anything since about 1997. Alec Harkness co-wrote the original site in the mid 1990s, but I have fallen out of contact with him. If he ever wished to get in touch, try the email below.
Email wine@thewinepages.org.uk
Comments and suggestions welcome
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