A bit more than a year ago now, I posted the start of an experiment on adding body to country wines. To recap: What’s the best way, among the many weird and wonderful home methods out there, to add a bit of body and fullness […]
Late summer, yay! Peaches are good and cheap. This is the perfect time to pick up a bottle of grappa and make peach liqueur. It’s straightforward to put together, but you have to start with the right peaches. If you’re thinking Look I don’t know, […]
I’ve been spending a fair bit of time reading older books on country wine making, and I find I am coming up with a lot of questions. One of these is, why are people using such weird and wonderful things to try and create body […]
Late Spring! The branches in my little berry patch are getting heavier every day, and everyone’s eyeing them off. The birds, the toddler, and me. Soon it will be time to set up the nets. Not that it will stop anyone, but I’ll feel like […]
Or, “how to make 16 bottles of lemony booze, really fast and really cheap”. Brewers on the internet are wild for a recipe called “Skeeter Pee“, which is made from not much more than bottled lemon juice (eek, really?) and sugar. It was named for […]
“If you haven’t had that happen to you, you aren’t making enough wine.” Credit to my fellow Eltham Guild member Danny on that phrase. It certainly made me feel better on the night I cracked open a demijohn and sent 20L of delicious summer peach […]
It might sound a little odd, but this is a heavenly liqueur that’s well worth the small effort. Fig leaves are easy to find over the back fences in summer, particularly if you do the smart thing and live in a suburb of Melbourne that’s […]