Making Wild Wines & Meads: 125 Unusual Recipes Using Herbs, Fruits, Flowers & More

Just flipping through the pages, I know I am going to love and use this book. I have made peach, banana, and grape wine before, I now want to start to make more unusual wines,and perhaps Mead. This book will help with recipes and advice. I made wine first on a lark. I am a DYI fan, and love to make my own things. The chemistry involved, like how much acid the fruit should have, is sometimes confusing. Books like this help making sense of the "science" of the brewer's art. Besides recipes, the book goes over set-up and advice on the equipment you need. Wine making needs no more equipment than "canning," but some of the tools, like a hydrometer are specialized. Once you have them though, if you want to expand a bit, you can go into beer making, so it is not a waste of money.

Book is concise and straightforward good ideas to make different types of mead

I have been using this book for about two years now and every recipe I've tried has turned out wonderfully. If you are a beginner making gallon recipes, it is a good place to start - great basic information/instructions about wine-making as well as easy recipes to try. For experienced wine-makers, this book is not very complicated but it still provides a wealth of reliable recipes and ideas for experimenting.

. the book itself is very well written and the recipe ideas are great. very informative and insightful. my only gripe and reason for giving it 4 stars is the techniques aren't as detailed as they should be in my opinion especially for someone just starting out. for example, making a flower wine pg. 138, there is no way you would want to throw the flowers directly into the fermentation vessel, straining that amount of solids out without a bit more advanced equipment just won't work very well and would be extremely frustrating. A muslin bag would work better. there also is not a ton of detail about taking hydrometer readings, how much water to add. Great book but for someone starting out, I think those details could be formatted a bit better .

A fantastic book! Great recipes. But all require Campden tablets, yeast nutrient, acid blend, pectin enzyme, and tannin powder. So make sure you order those when you order book because you will want to get started right away. I have tried multiple recipes and they are really fantastic outcomes!

It was a gift to a friend who is living in the wilds of the Yukon Territory in Canada!!!!! An abundance of wild fruits that she and the local Brown and Grizzly Bears eat, she wanted to make some wines from I know she has started making some but we obviously won't know the results but she was thrilled to receive it. I think I might need to go on a long distance wine tasting session in the future. Hahaha

So many recipes to try and so little time to make them.

The title is terribly misleading. This book should be titled "Making UNUSUAL Wines & Meads," because it is not about wild fermentation at all! After getting started with wild fermentation accidentally, encouraged by a batch of fresh apple cider that began to ferment on its own, I branched out into meads, using a bit of cider to kickstart the fermentation. The results were so encouraging that I bought this book to get more ideas for experiments with wild fermentation. Imagine my surprise on discovering that all the recipes in this book call for commercial yeast! There's even a note on page 12 that specifically says this is NOT a book about wild fermentation, so why on earth does it have a title that suggests otherwise?Since I was stuck with the book, I figured I should at least give commercial yeast a try. Based on the book's descriptions of various yeast varieties, I picked up some Pasteur champagne yeast and tried that in my mead and cider. However, I found the results disappointing compared to what the wild fermentation had produced, so in the end I discovered that I needed a different book. (You'd think a book titled /Making Wild Wines & Meads/ would have at least SOME content related to wild fermentation, wouldn't you?)If you're looking for a book that actually contains tips, ideas, and recipes for wild-fermented beverages, I recommend /Make Mead Like a Viking/ by Jereme Zimmerman.

Very good book

I ordered this book as it states it's a WILD wine and mead book, but every recipes calls for a shop bought yeast starter. This is not wild then. Wild is when you are using wild yeasts not shop bought.

Good book for the homemade wine maker. Note it’s an American book, so measurements include a short gallon, Fahrenheit, pounds and ounces, and cups. However all these include metric equivalents in brackets, so not a problem.

Llegó bien empacado y a tiempo. Se ve un libro muy completo con muchas recetas.

I just got this book so I haven’t actually tried making anything yet. The book is easy to read and has some interesting recopies I plan to try. Well laid out and look easy to follow. Worth the cost.I look forward to getting creative this fall.