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Bottle of home brew wineWelcome to Wine World FDW

In the late 80's, I began marketing my own home brew wine kits under the name of Wine World. I've now added FDW to the name - this stands for "Falling Down Water", a term used to light-heartedly refer to alcoholic drinks. As I approach retirement, I have decided to give away the recipes for these wines.

Today my own wine making is restricted to a small orchard of pears and grapes, however I am not sitting on my backside, I still have another iron in the fire. It's this other hobby of growing tobacco (see other hobby) that has developed my computer skills, and helped to pay for the upkeep of this site which 100% free of any sales products. If you wish to visit this other site click here www.coffinails.com

I have been made president to many wine clubs around the world, to be fair I do not profess to be an expert on all subjects relating to wine making and beer brewing. To that end I have added a forum to this site to allow you guys to converse between yourselves, in turn I can learn a few tips. I will be checking the subject matter relates to home brew and there are no links posted that conflict with the spirit of the forum.

This site tells you how to make your own wine to our recipes using fruit, leaves, seeds, roots and flowers. I have provided the recipes for a number of the former Wine World FDW home brew wine making kits so that you can try these wines out for yourselves.

So what's the latest venture?
Extracting essential oils from flowers! Whilst travelling through France, I had the good fortune to see the process in operation. Extracting essential oils uses a form of the distillation process. The condenser in the distilling process remains the same as in a normal still, however the boiler is very different. The boiler does not contain any liquid, only the open flower heads. The drum or boiler is heated from the outside (they built a fire round it) so the whole boiler is very hot. Steam is injected through the base, remaining as steam as it rises through the flowers and lifting the essential oils as it goes. The steam then enters the dome at the top to be condensed back to liquid, the same as explained with the alcohol. The steam flows down a tube into another container, condensing into a liquid as it cools in the tube. The liquid drips into another container where the oil and water separate, with the oil floating on top of the water. The essential oils can then be scooped out. Maybe I'll write a website about essential oils one day.

Now go and make wine!


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