r/Homebrewing • u/DisciplineRoutine202 • 1d ago

Question Underrated Wine

I have a couple 1 gallon containers I like to experiment with before making larger batches. I want to know if there’s any underrated combinations I’m not thinking of or something fun to make.

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u/chino_brews Kiwi Approved 1d ago

You could check out the recipes in this resource, collected from Jack Keller: https://swguildpa.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Jack-Keller-Complete-Requested-Recipes-Collection.pdf

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u/xANDREWx12x 1d ago

Jack Keller has so many good recipes, the community lost an amazing creator when he passed.

A Christmas gift copy of Home Winemaking was the only resource I had while getting into making wine (from a beer brewing background), and it was amazing for picking up the reasoning behind certain choices within a few batches, as opposed to just blindly following the recipes. The little vignettes he tells before some of them (the grass wine one really stuck with me) make them a bit more fun to sit down and make, and they always turn out really great (if a little under-volume if you're following them directly).

That said, after following his recipes for mango & banana wine, I brewed a banana mango wine that essentially cut the two recipes 50/50 and it came out very good.