When you set out to make your own beer, or wine or port, you want to make sure that you follow the instructions to a T. You would not make a casserole by just throwing any old thing into it, right? Of course you would not. Well, the same goes for your own home brewed beer. To start, you must first learn how to brew your own beer. You can find information on home brewing, as well as other home brewing tips not listen here, by looking on the internet or by buying a good book on Continue reading →

So you want to learn about wine and how you can make it in the comfort of your own home? Let us start this wine 101 by taking a quick history lesson. Wine making began thousands of years ago in the northern zagros mountains of Iran. Then it quickly spread though out the region and got picked up by the country we know today as Cyprus and from their it spread faster then fire around the entire region of Europe and quickly became a major part of the western civilization we know today. Even the Continue reading →

When it comes to making alcoholic beverages at home, winemaking and home brewing is considered sort of a ‘niche’ market. You either know how to do it or you don’t!

This is very hard to believe as people have been making their own wine for thousands of years. Just recently it was confirmed that this process of fermenting grapes was invented in Cyprus rather than western Europe.

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One of the most common concerns people have when it comes to making wine or any kind of booze at home is will the boys in blue come running after me? No they won’t, as long as you are making wine just for yourself. See making wine isn’t illegal, people have been doing it since the ‘Bronze Age’ if not earlier. But making wine at home and then selling it without Uncle Sam getting a cut or proper authorization, well then you are in trouble.

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