Recommend me a book please

[orange]

Hello all. I'm thinking of branching out into the world of wine making. Is there a book/s that you would recommend? :

 

[mosh]

cjj. berry First Steps In Winemaking
no wine maker should be with out it

 

[orange]

Many thanks. :thumb:

 

[HLA91]

CJJ Berry, and also the boots book of home wine making. Both can be picked up for pennies online.

 

[Moley]

“First Steps” may be somewhat outdated but is still valid reading for many of the basics, and also contains a useful set of recipes arranged by what might be available month by month. You should be able to pick up a copy quite cheaply.

Ask here for confirmation or modification of any recipes though.

Other than that, use the interweb.

 

[Dave Ne]

Moley has some great info on this site for anyone coming into this hobby, check out his how to guides, cheers Dave NE

 

[mosh]

any chance of a link to moley's site

 

[Moley]

Stop it, I haven't got a site, he's only talking about stuff like the WOW guide. Although I've tried to write that for the complete novice and tried to explain why you do a few things rather than just saying “do this, then do that”, I've only just begun to scratch the surface. Read the book.

 

[Dave Ne]

Be careful of the (First steps) book though, his recipes have too much sugar, i made a few and threw them down the sink, i did think about blending them with some other dry wines but thought, why bother, Dave NE

 

[corby_brewer]

C.J.J first steps, or just do what i used to do. M.I.U.H.U.G.A. Makke it up has you go along.

 

[Moley]

Be careful of the (First steps) book though, his recipes have too much sugar,

Not necessarily, they frequently have too much water, and this is why I said “Ask here for confirmation or modification of any recipes though”.


His recipes don't have too much sugar if you follow them exactly, because in most cases if you have a quantity of fruit plus a quantity of sugar plus a gallon of water you are quite likely to end up with 10 pints of must, leaving you with a full DJ plus a secondary bottle which will be used for topping up after racking.

If you use his sugar quantities and make water up to a gallon, that's where the problems start.

 

[evanvine]

Think I'll stick to AG, it's easier! :whistle: