Almost Off Grid Blog - Brew, Make, Forage, Grow.

In winter we tend to make wine from kits. But from late Spring onwards we start turning our thoughts to making wine from fruit and flowers. If you've thought about it but don't know where to start, this is for you.

When you home brew it's helpful to know about bottle shock, because it's a condition that can set in immediately after wine is bottled. And it can affect how your wine tastes.

There is a vast range of homemade wine kits to choose from, and all their instructions will differ slightly. However the principles are generally t...

All beer kits are supplied with instructions. They all follow the same principles, and this is a general guide to making beer from a kit. My Dad started (when he was 81). You can too!

We're often asked at this time of year for advice on making wine from garden grapes. And how to use a hydrometer. You use a hydrometer to measure how much sugar is occurring naturally in your juice. Then simply add the appropriate amount of sugar to get the alcohol content you want.

Since we started making our own everything, I can't tell you how many people have asked us about making wine from garden grapes. Or, indeed, how many people have offered us their garden grapes to make wine. So it's about time I wrote down how to do it.

Are you looking for a blackberry wine recipe because you've just foraged blackberries, but you have less than a kilo? Then you can make a very nice Mock Claret instead of blackberry wine.

Our allotment blackcurrant bushes have produced a wonderful crop this year. Much as I love making jam, we rarely eat it. So instead, I decided to make homemade wine and dug out a Blackcurrant Wine Recipe. It is bubbling away right now.

Young's have released new WineBuddy Fruit Wine Kits in 6 flavours: Apricot, Black Cherry, Blackberry, Peach, Elderflower and Strawberry.

Once you've strained your sloe gin, it seems a waste to just throw those gin-soaked beauties in the bin. So don't. Make Sloe Port instead using this Sloe Port Recipe.

Every year we make Elderflower cordial, along with other elderflower drink, jellies and my favourite: Elderflower Lemon Curd. But we'd never made Elderflower Gin until this year. And I'm here to tell you: Elderflower Gin is a beautiful thing.

Joe's Ancient Orange Mead Recipe is the perfect recipe for beginners which you'll find all over the internet. It was originally posted by Joe Mattioli on a website called Got Mead many years ago and went viral.