The Home Winemaker's Batch Book · PDF and printable packMyHomeWine · Digital working handbook

Make better wine. Know what to do next.

Eight guided batch plans, practical measurements and reusable printable records.

How to make homemade wine at home: the Batch Book cover and an open spread from the PDF on a bench
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From your first fermentation to your final bottle, follow eight guided batch plans with clear measurements, practical decisions and printable records.

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Includes the Batch Book and printable working pack.

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186-page PDF plus an 18-page printable pack. For adults of legal drinking age. Personal use only.

  • 8 plansWine, mead and cider
  • 186 pagesDates, doses and decisions
  • 18-page packIntro, 8 batch cards, 9 worksheets
How to use a hydrometer in home winemaking: a real two-page spread from the Batch Book PDF with a reading diagram and a temperature correction chart
A real spread, flat from the PDF: reading a hydrometer and correcting for temperature, Chapter 4.

The free guides explain each topic. This book runs the whole batch.

The guides on this site stay free. The Batch Book puts the same ground in order, one batch at a time, so you can run a batch from the page, with links for the extra detail.

Free guides

Learn one technique at a time

The Batch Book

Run one complete batch

  1. StartDay 1
  2. FermentDays 2 to 13
  3. StabilizeDay 14
  4. ClearDays 15 to 54
  5. BottleDays 28 to 56
  • One plan from start to finish
  • Measure and record every stage
  • Use your results to decide the next step
Wine making batch card rows from the Batch Book printable pack: day 1, days 2 to 13 and day 14, each with a task and a space for the gravity reading
A real cut from the batch card for Batch 1, The Six-Gallon Kit.

Inside the book

Real pages from the PDF, shown flat, exactly as you read them on screen. Select a page to read it larger.

How a plan opens Level, yield, calendar and gear, then the stages with their days.
Where the weeks go The calendar for a 4-week and an 8-week kit, then each step.
What the reading says If the gravity is off, the next move is written down.
The dose math One formula, worked through, and where to stop.
What can go wrong Common problems, with what to check first.

Eight batch plans

Choose by what you own or can get. Each plan is laid out in stages and ends in a batch card. Each shows its level, its yield and its calendar.

  1. Beginner
  2. Beginner plus
  3. Intermediate
  4. Advanced
  • Wine making kit bench on day one, with the open fermenter, the juice bag and the additive packets set out in order Illustration

    Batch 1

    The Six-Gallon Kit

    Start here if you own a kit.

    Beginner 30 bottles 4 to 8 weeks

  • Wine from grape juice being set up: a funnel in a one-gallon jug with bottles of juice beside it Illustration

    Batch 2

    Bottled-Juice Gallon

    Start here if you own nothing yet.

    Beginner About 5 bottles 8 to 12 weeks

  • Fruit wine preparation: plums halved and pitted on a board beside a straining bag in a bucket Illustration

    Batch 3

    Country Fruit Wine

    For berries or stone fruit.

    Beginner plus 5 or up to 25 bottles About 6 months

  • Red wine fermentation seen from above: a cap of grape skins being punched down in a bucket Illustration

    Batch 4

    Fresh-Grape Red

    If you can get red wine grapes.

    Intermediate Up to 25 bottles 9 to 12 months

  • Grape press close-up: pale juice running from a small basket press into a bucket Illustration

    Batch 5

    Fresh-Grape White

    If you can get white wine grapes.

    Intermediate Up to 25 bottles 6 months or more

  • How to make mead: honey dissolving into water in a bucket, with a long spoon and an open jar of honey Illustration

    Batch 6

    Traditional Mead

    If you have honey.

    Beginner 1 or 5 gallons 3 weeks plus aging

  • Hard cider fermenting in a one-gallon jug with a ring of foam and a hydrometer in a test jar Illustration

    Batch 7

    Store-Juice Hard Cider

    For cider from store juice.

    Beginner 10 bottles a gallon 4 to 8 weeks

  • Sparkling wine bottle fermentation: crown-capped bottles and a firm plastic gauge bottle in a storage tote, with eye protection Illustration

    Batch 8

    Bottle-Fermented Sparkling

    For makers who have experience.

    Advanced 1 or 5 gallons Weeks to months

The plans are built from the published sources listed. Calendars are typical, not promises: your readings set the pace.

A printable working system

The book tells you what to do. The pack is where you record what happened. It is a separate 18-page US Letter PDF: an introduction page, eight batch cards (one per plan) and nine worksheets, with margins wide enough to print on A4 at actual size.

Print more copies for every batch, so no sheet is ever used up. One Batch Log per batch, and a second when it fills.

Record
8 batch cards, Batch Log, Bottling Record, Tasting and Blend Log
Calculate
Must Builder, Sulfite Dose
Decide
Finish Decision, Sweet Path
Troubleshoot
Rescue Triage
Plan
Year Planner
Wine making batch card for the six-gallon kit from the Batch Book printable pack, a full US Letter page with dates, readings and stop signs
Batch card One for each plan: dates, readings and stop signs on one page. Real sheets from the pack, shown flat.
Wine making log: close-up of the Batch Log sheet filled in by hand with example data for a kit batch, with dates, temperatures and gravity readings Example data
Batch Log, filled in Example data, written in to show how a sheet fills up. One line for every reading, addition and racking.
  • Wine making Finish Decision worksheet from the Batch Book printable pack, top of the sheet with gravity bands

    DecideFinish Decision Is it done, and does it go dry or sweet?

  • Fruit wine Must Builder worksheet from the Batch Book printable pack, top of the sheet with volume and gravity sums

    CalculateMust Builder Volume, sugar and nutrient, before you open a bag.

  • Stuck fermentation Rescue Triage worksheet from the Batch Book printable pack, top of the sheet with symptom checkboxes

    TroubleshootRescue Triage Symptom, measure, act, one change at a time.

What is inside

Part ISet up the bench

  1. Think in batches
  2. The bench: three buying tiers
  3. Clean, sanitize, stay safe

Part IIMeasure and decide

  1. The five numbers
  2. Build the must
  3. Yeast and nutrient schedules
  4. The sulfite plan
  5. Finish it: stabilize, sweeten, clear
  6. Rescue: symptom, measure, act

Part IIIEight batch plans

The plans shown above, each with its stages, its decisions and its batch card.

Part IVThe year

  1. Plan a year of batches
  2. Bench trials, blends and the cellar
  3. Sharing it, and the law

End matterFor reference

  1. Worksheets
  2. Glossary
  3. References
Home winemaking book cover: The Home Winemaker's Batch Book, eight guided plans for wine, mead and cider

The real cover, flat. No physical copy is shipped.

Your next batch, planned from start to bottle.

  • The 186-page PDF: eight plans, the measuring chapters and the rescue chapter
  • The 18-page printable pack: an introduction page, 8 batch cards and 9 worksheets

$19

Digital edition · PDF download

Results depend on your ingredients, equipment and care, and no outcome is guaranteed. The book never suggests selling what you make, and it does not cover distilling. By buying you agree to the Terms of Sale.

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