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If this book stops you making potato wine then it is at least one good reason to get it. --Home Farmer Magazine
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Ben s Adventures in Wine Making is a home brewing book with a difference. It is a tale of one man s attempts to create delicious and interesting wine from unlikely ingredients. Ben Hardy takes us on a journey, in diary form, from picking his raw materials to drinking the final product. From the superb blackberry to the undrinkable potato wine, and thirty-one flavours between, Ben both amuses and informs in his efforts to produce the nectar of the gods. He is refreshingly honest about what does and does not work, and carefully records the triumphs, the disasters, and his long-suffering friends and family s reactions
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
This book is an extremely enjoyable account of a few years in the life of Ben Hardy, and his family and friends, as he experiments with making and drinking different types of wine. I'm not a home brewer myself, but I still found this book both interesting and very funny. I imagine that for someone starting to make their own wine it would also be extremely useful.
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This book is a joy! It's not only a marvellous 'how to' book, but also an extraordinarily funny 'how NOT to' book! Mr Hardy is a home-made wine enthusiast (drinker as well as maker!). His book is filled with recipes, hints/tips and stories of his triumphs and failures along the way. It is a joyously funny read whether you are a home-made wine brewer or not. I'm buying one for myself and another for my sister for christmas. A super book!
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
If you think this is just another book on wine-making you'd be totally wrong. Yes, wine is the raison d'être for the book but it's as much about the accompanying events which enrich the whole wine-making and wine-drinking experience: the food, the friends, the family members, the cats, the classical music, the dissertations on medieval childbirth and other little anecdotes that almost make you feel a participant in the Hardy household. The book is divided into sections according to wine flavour (and there are many), and we are privy to the agonies and ecstasies of each new flavour, from the picking (or buying), to the stalking, mashing or cutting of the fruit (or vegetable), to the bottling, maturing and eventual drinking. The events are relayed with a wit, sometimes dry, at other times sparkly, just like the various wines. Banana, plum and blackberry are some of the fruits employed, even exotic tinned fruit, though Hardy strongly advises against the potato. "I think this is the most disgusting wine I have ever made or supped. It's bitter and tastes of raw potatoes," he writes with his usual candour. I'm not at all surprised that the Barley Wine tasted like Carlsberg Special either - as a teen I would drink both to get off my head quickly and cheaply, though the Barley Wine was pretty bitter and disgusting to my youthful palate. I am also very averse to rhubarb but I must say that the description of something more akin to pink champagne and no hint of rhubarb did sound very enticing. One gets the feeling that corks are popping and wine exploding all the time in the Hardy household and when they're not drinking the stuff or having Wine Parties for friends to rate Ben's wines, they're foraging, picking, racking, bottling and keeping a journal. One wonders how Ben and his wife Claire - whose home-made dishes are usually a mouth-watering accompaniment - have time for all their other pursuits.
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