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This group is for home wine & beer enthusiasts and for liqueur or cordial making.

Members: 11
Latest Activity: Dec 13, 2011

Wine and Beer Making Supplies

Oak Barrel Winecraft - 1443 San Pablo Avenue, Berkeley, CA 94702

They sell everything you need for home winemaking or beer making. Stop in, taste their daily beer on tap, get advice, purchase local bulk grapes.

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Comment by Kim Di Giacomo on October 20, 2011 at 9:35pm: Halloween cordial - Fennel Liqueur

If you love the taste of black jelly beans/licorice, you might want to try to make Fennel Liqueur this week. Grab some vodka - the cheap kind will do. Throw in 3-4 fennel seed fronds from your garden - I think wild will do as well and you can find that anywhere in Cali!. Throw them in the vodka for 5 days. Then remove the fronds, add sugar (to taste) and shake till blended. Throw your liqueur in the freezer and enjoy as soon as it's ice cold. Yum!

Comment by Kim Di Giacomo on August 3, 2011 at 6:07pm: Just started a small batch of Blackberry / Elderberry hard cider for the One Block Feast contest we entered. Blackberries are ready in Sausel Creek. See my blog post here.

Comment by Kim Di Giacomo on August 3, 2011 at 6:05pm: Cool post Freya, would like to try to make beer some day. Let us know how it goes, especially the challenge of getting it fizzy.

Comment by Freya Gereke on August 2, 2011 at 1:45pm: I just posted about my first brewing project at Peculiar Purls. Check it out! Comments on the post are welcome and anyone with ideas for Peach Beer are needed.

Comment by Kim Di Giacomo on March 1, 2011 at 11:12am: Hey everyone, now is a great time to plan for summer fruit wine making. Flowering trees will soon start to produce fruit such as plums, peaches, nectarines and apricots. There are many wild plum trees in public areas that are great for wine making. If you want a place to start looking, write me off line. Plums and apricots are first to ripen in June.