Home winemaking is both fun and tasty, but the bottles can add up quickly. A single 5-gallon bath produces around 20 bottles of wine, and when I started making homemade wine I wanted to ferment| Practical Self Reliance
Blackberry wine is the perfect way to make use of a huge crop of summer blackberries. This one-gallon blackberry wine recipe can easily be increased to make a full 5-gallon batch if you have plenty| Practical Self Reliance
Canning apple pie filling at home means you're just minutes away from having a pie in the oven. The apples are already peeled, chopped, seasoned and thickened. That allows you to just pour the pre-made| Practical Self Reliance
When the peaches come in, our preservation kitchen goes into overdrive. Peaches are high sugar and high acid, which makes them perfect for canning, but that also makes them ideal for homemade peach wine. Once| Practical Self Reliance
Mead is a staple in our homebrew routine, and we've been making honey wines for over a decade. When it was time to brew another batch with rhubarb, I of course reached for the honey| Practical Self Reliance