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| Making Wild Wines & Meads: 125 Unusual Recipes Using Herbs, Fruits, Flowers & More | 
 enlarge | Authors: Pattie Vargas, Rich Gulling
Publisher: Storey Publishing, LLC
Category: Book
List Price: $16.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  12 reviews
Sales Rank: 75876
Media: Paperback
Edition: Revised
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 176
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 8.7 x 6 x 0.5
ISBN: 1580171826
Dewey Decimal Number: 641.872
UPC: 037038001822
EAN: 9781580171823
ASIN: 1580171826
Publication Date: January 8, 1999
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| Customer Reviews:
good basic recipe book February 13, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
While this book isn't really for the beginner it has plenty of good basic wine and mead recipies. I've tried several with mostly good luck. It's also one of the few publications that have workable mead recipies. My only objection to this book is it seems to treat aging as the most important step in all wines. While it is very important, it isn't all that makes a wine, and especially mead, great.
so much fun January 14, 2007
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
i have tried several. there is on occasion a question about a recipe, should something be covered, stirred but since i know nothing about the generalities i need to be let by the hand. i love that they are not the kinds of wine just anyone can buy at the corner store. great fun to talk about even with non wine makers.
 Not what I was expecting August 30, 2006
8 out of 12 found this review helpful
From the title, I was expecting this book to be along the same lines as "Wild Fermentation," by Sandor Ellix Katz. It wasn't.
There are about three paragraphs in this book that discuss wild fermentation (i.e. fermenting wine with nothing but the wild yeast in the atmosphere), and those paragraphs contained several inaccuracies (for example, wild yeast exists everywhere, not just on the skins of grapes, and these yeasts will ferment anything containing sugar, not just grape juice).
This book wasn't by any means bad, it just wasn't what I thought it would be.
Inspiring but some details are missing December 15, 2004
11 out of 13 found this review helpful
I got this book for my first winemaking book, and used one of
the blackberry wine recipes for my first batch. The recipes
are just recipes, without the minute detail, and it was hard
to turn back and forth from the recipes to the 'how to' intro
to get the general detailed steps, and there were a couple of
steps that I wasn't sure exactly what to do. Also, there are
tips I could have used, for example the siphoning; the book
makes it sound simple but it was very frustrating, and there
are tools available to start the siphon that I hope will be
very useful.
The book is very inspiring and the recipes are diverse and
interesting, I expect to use it again.
Finally! November 4, 2004
11 out of 11 found this review helpful
Many years ago when I started making my own wine, I had receipes for fruit wines including Pineapple, Strawberry and even a Strawberry/Vanilla wine. I lost that small book and went without for many years. If you have any interest in making fruit and herb wines (They Make Great Gifts!) then try this book. It will keep you busy for quite some time.
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