Create Your Own Wine Making Recipe
Usually when a home winemaker enters into the hobby of home winemaking he or she takes the logical route and starts out with a wine making kit. This is the best possible way to start and to learn as your experience grows. It is foolish to want to jump in and start experimenting when you have not yet learned the basics. Once several successful batches have been produced, many home winemakers are confident enough to want to experiment.
This is where things become really interesting and personal preferences come to the fore. People then start to create their own unique wine making recipes. This by no means that that they chuck their tried and tested wine making instructions in the wastebasket. Nor do they veer off from the basics of the mixture of yeast, sugars and water. Creating a unique wine making recipe means that you keep the foundation in place and add extras to create a different taste.
Experimentation For New Wine Making Recipes
Most people start their experimenting to create a new wine making recipe by adding different herbs to the basic wine making recipe. The next step usually is to start experimenting with different types of fruit. Experimenting and creating a new wine making recipe must be done with care though. Research has to be done into all the various ingredients the wine maker wants to use. The reason for this is that wine making is a chemical process and combining ingredients must be done with knowledge. Make sure that none of the fruit seeds on the list is not toxic.
And that they would not cause any toxic reaction during the wine making process. The internet is a great resource for information on any herbs and fruits, what chemicals they contain and any other useful information you may need. Great new ideas for new wine making recipes are born by looking back to what our ancestors used. Honey was used as a sweetener and honey can be used today in wine making as well. The fruit suitable for wine making is extensive and many people create excellent new wine making recipes.
As long as you keep the basic proportions of sugar and water ratio balanced, you can even combine different fruits. You could also try a combination of citrus fruits. Here again the internet is an invaluable resource. You can use the information posted by people that have already experimented with fruits you are interested in. It can save you lots of time. And it can save you from having mishaps with your new wine making recipe through the advice of others.