Description

The Art of Craft Winemaking: A Guide to Making Delicious Wines, Cocktails, and Mixer Drinks

The Art of Craft Winemaking is a modern, comprehensive guide that steers the home winemaker from the basics of making wines from kits to more advanced craft winemaking using grapes, fruits, and other countryside ingredients. The book will be of interest to those who just make their wine from kits. It describes the processes for achieving great results every time and discusses how to adapt kits and blend kit wines to produce stunning wines.

For those who are looking to progress with the hobby, the book then explores advanced winemaking techniques and describes how to make craft wines from grapes and other countryside ingredients. There are over fifty award-winning wine recipes included, which have been perfected over many years. They provide full instructions and advice to ensure the production of consistently high-quality wines.

The book also covers the topics of spirit-making and mixology. It describes how to make your own base spirits, which can be used to produce fantastic, cost effective liqueurs, cocktails, and mixers. Mixology techniques and equipment are explored, and thirty of the most popular cocktail and mixer recipes from around the world are included to develop your skills.

As a reference guide, this book covers all of the topics you will need to know to develop advanced winemaking skills. It is the result of over forty years of experience in the home wine and craft drink industry and includes a comprehensive collection of the best recipes collected from across the world. It really is the only guide you will need to own to develop your skills and enjoy this fascinating hobby. This version of the book is printed with black & white photographs.

375 pages.