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

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!

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.

LOVE this book! If you've always wanted to try making your own wine this book is perfect for beginner. So easy to understand directions!

In a well thought-out and easy to use guide, MAKING WILD WINES & MEADS is a great beginner's book that my boyfriend and I will be using to start our first batches of beverages. As amateurs, this guide has a great variety of recipes and presents basic topics in a clear, concise way that delves into enough detail without miring you down in facts. The order of topics is also very logical: we're first introduced to what we need to start making wine as well as necessary equipment, and items that are nice to have. Recipes come at the end -- you know, after you actually figure out how to make a recipe come together. These include a good mixture of non-grape ingredients found at both your local supermarket and farmer's markets for foods as diverse as cherries and blueberries, plus more unusual ingredients like herbs and flowers. An informative, all-inclusive how-to guide for beginners and wine enthusiasts.

Good book. It is encouraging me to make some mead with honey from a local beekeeper. It has some good wine recipes also.

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

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

Love this book. Lots of very interesting recipes. Waiting for my dandelion wine to age so I can see if it really tastes like "liquid sunshine".

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.

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

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.

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.

Very good book