A simple step by step to hone your home brewing skills at home. It is ideal for those who like to experiment in their food craft skills. Use easily available ingredients from your kitchen and make a unique culinary adventure.
Fruit Wine and Fruit Beer are so easy to make. All fruits ferment naturally. An over-ripe apple fallen from the tree would naturally convert into cider inside its skin. As a professional, our job is often little more than to steer the fermentation towards desired results. Across the globe, people prepare and consume a fruit-based […]
This article focusses on small-scale production of barley base malt, which is where most maltsters hone their skills before moving on to specialty malts and malting other grains. With minor tweaks, we can malt any grain legume or seeds following this technique. Also by just altering the roasting (kilning) one can convert base malt to […]
Any fruit can be pulped and made into wine. The banana recipe can easily be modified to use pineapple, mango, apple etc.Ingredients to make a liter of fruit cider wine. Do remember to maintain pH using an acid blend and add pectin enzyme to your cider. Apart from that everything else is like grape wine […]
Jamun wine recipe can also be made from mulberry, jamun and berries. It is deep red in color, dry and with a strong body. Hence the name Devil’s blood wine. Some people have also added blueberry, raspberry, cranberry and blackberry into it as per the locally available ingredients. My Anglo-Indian friends favor this recipe during […]
Flowers are romanticized throughout literature. Rose is readily available and full of aromas and colors that one would like to capture. We will talk about a basic rose wine in this chapter but one can easily tweak the recipe to make wines from any flowers. Special aspects of flower wines: The flowers need to be […]
Generally, we use Dried Kajoor (palm date) for this beer preparation. But, I guess, any wine can pair up for a romantic rendezvous. Sweet sorghum, maple syrup, jaggery paste or any other sugar source can be similarly fermented into an alcoholic beverage. यत्तालखर्जूररसैः सन्धिता सा हि वारुणी। Sa. Ma. Kha 10/7
Innovation in wines need not come from recipe alone. Presentation and packaging can also help you win accolades. Sake is almost exclusively packed in traditional bottles. The flask with a lamp like structure on top is so distinctive that its mere sight of the flask means that an oriental treat is in order. Similarly, the […]