Date: Feb-Mar 2005
Bracing Barrels & Coffee Wine
The level of caffeine, of course, will depend on how much coffee you used in the recipe — just as your average cup of joe will be stronger with the more ground coffee, so will your wine.
I made some wine using coffee as an ingredient and I was wondering what happens to the caffeine during fermentation?
Coffee wine, eh? I’ve heard of using strong black tea as a tannin additive and of using coffee in brewing recipes for a super-charged stout but I’ve never heard of making coffee
Could you provide me some ideas on an easy and cost effective way to properly frame a stand for my barrels?
Congrats on embarking on the ever-fascinating and (just as often) maddening adventure of using oak in home winemaking! You’ve discovered what many of your predecessors already have — that it is sometimes
Aging Your Kit Wines
Discussions of wine aging range well into the past, from the biblical story of Luke and putting new wine into old skins, to the ancient Roman interest in Falernian wine, which could
A Rosé by any Other Name
In 1963, I first experienced the romance of wine in the form of a basket-covered Chianti bottle stuffed with a candle and covered in dripping wax. It sat on a red and
