How to Make Homemade Wine | Discover How to Make Your Own Unique Wine
If you want to learn how to make homemade wine, there is no reason for not doing it. You don’t need a license, a cellar, and the utensils you need are probably in your home to begin with. It doesn’t take a lot of work either to learn How to Make Homemade Wine.
The first issue you need to learn is the do’s and don’ts of winemaking.
<b>Do
- Rack at least once, and twice if possible.
- Use new corks and boil the old ones.
- Keep your first ferment covered.
- Keep the secondary fermentation air-free.
- Keep your equipment clean.
- Keep all bottles filled.
- Add sugar by stages and keep records with high level of detail.
- Keep red wines in dark bottles so they don’t lose their color.
- Use trustworthy yeast nutrient frequently.
- Make wines too dry rather than too sweet: add sugar later.
- Use fermentation traps.
- Taste the wine at intervals to make sure the process is going well.
Don’t
- Sell your wine. It is illegal. Don’t try to distil your own wine either.
- Let vinegar flies come in contact with your wine.
- Use metal containers.
- Use tools or containers made out of resinous wood.
- Forget to stir a must twice a day.
- Use too much sugar.
- Try to speed up fermentation by increasing the temperature.
- Be impatient.
- Let dead yeast or sediment anywhere close to your wine.
- Filter for no reasonor too soon.
- Store your wine in unsterilized jars or bottles.
- Bottle your wine before it’s done fermenting.
- Employ screw-stopper bottles.
Now that you have a good sense of what you should do and what you shouldn’t, I will share with you one of my favorite wine recipes and in no time you can learn How to Make Homemade Wine.
Either black, green or amber grapes can be used for this recipe and the resulting wine will suit almost every taste.
2 bags (4 lb.) of grapes – 2 bags (31/2 lb.) of sugar – 1 oz. yeast
1 gallon water.
Separate the grapes from the stalks and then crush them by hand. Pour the boiling water over them and leave to soak for forty-eight hours. Strain and put the juice through a jelly-bag. Allow to drain and then pour into the fermenting vessel and add the sugar.
Mix until the sugar is dissolved -this will take a lot of time with cold grape-juice. When all the sugar is mixed well sprinkle the yeast on top and stir in. Seal, and ferment for fourteen days; after which proceed with bottling. It’s so much bliss to learn How to Make Homemade Wine.
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Wine for a chicken and swiss cheese dish?I'm not a fan of drinking wine, but I enjoy the flavor it adds to dishes when it is used in the cooking process. I'm planning on making a chicken dish with swiss cheese for dinner tonight and would like to substitute a dry white wine for the water my recipe calls for. Problem is, I have no idea what to look for. I know the general rule is not to cook with a wine you wouldn't drink. Whats a girl to do if she doesn't drink wine in the first place?
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June 26th, 2009 at 6:29 am
right. It’s funny you mention it, because at the end of my shift, I took a glass out and showed it to the cooks… Then they took a beer glass and kept trying to make it work in the back of the kitchen XD.
June 26th, 2009 at 6:59 am
If men in prison can make wine with apple juice, then you can do it too hunny!
Here is a link to tell you how to make homemade wine.
http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Homemade-Wine/Detail.aspx
Good Luck
Cheers
June 26th, 2009 at 7:07 am
you don't need a hydrometer, that just helps you know how much alcohol you have
you want an airlock to stop it from getting contaminated.
if you don't have one, make one, there are many websites showing how,. At least do the balloon thing, where you cover the hole with a balloon with some holes pricked in it.
June 26th, 2009 at 7:55 am
Thats awesome!!
June 26th, 2009 at 9:06 am
I would suggest that you start with a kit. I do not make wine, but brew beer and have found Midwest Homebrewing and Winemaking Supplies to be a super source.
June 26th, 2009 at 12:14 pm
as amazing as this is, you know whats kind of funny? If it stats to rain, the songs will be out of tune, and sound terrible.
But either way, this guy’s got some talent.
June 26th, 2009 at 8:04 pm
It only works with real cyrstal glasses, a regular glas wont dont it; dont have the harmonics for it
June 27th, 2009 at 6:45 am
The first, and most important, step is to sanitize everything that will come into contact with your wine. The second thing is to use only quality ingredients and equipment. Use an air lock to prevent contamination from air-borne yeasts that may cause your wine to turn into vinegar. Be sure you are using a wine yeast; bread yeast will make wine, but it will have a "biscuit-like" taste. Also, don't allow the wine to sit on the lees for very long; rack the first time at two weeks, again when fermentation is complete and every thirty days thereafter until the wine is clear. Age the wine using oak, either strips of chips, for at least 3 months for a white wine and 6 months for a red wine. Bottle into clean, sanitized bottles and immediately cork or cap the bottles. Let the wine rest in the bottles for at least two weeks before opening, and serve at the correct temperature; cellar temperature for reds, refrigerated or iced for whites. Of course, there are exceptions for these temperatures; cherry wine is red, but is best served well chilled.
Here is a video about making wine:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4225120773892573398
More information, and supplies:
http://www.beer-wine.com/homemade-wine.html
The process, broken down:
http://www.home-winemaking.com/
Good luck and enjoy!
June 27th, 2009 at 9:42 am
Not the best way, just a way, bottle to put the concentrate in, package of yeast (bakers from grocery) add some sugar (amount varies depending on volume of grape juice) and if the concentrate already had sugar. pour in the yeast snap a balloon over the neck of the bottle, if it looks like it will pop then take it off and let the gas out and put it back, do so gently, when it quits blowing up wait 5 or six weeks and then pour up into fresh container (gently) so as to not disturb the sediment, you got wine, may not be great wine but wine never the less.
To learn more go to eckrause.com and look under recepies. if you want wine yeast they sell it.
June 27th, 2009 at 5:15 pm
Nice job i probably would have broke every one of those
June 27th, 2009 at 7:31 pm
NICE!!!
June 27th, 2009 at 8:15 pm
i have a sudden urge to just walk over there and knock all them glasses over.
tehehe im eviil.
June 28th, 2009 at 3:09 am
Unless you're distilling it, and you don't know what you're doing in the distillation process, you won't have a problem. You could wind up with fusel alcohols, phenols, etc., that could result from excessive fermentation temperature, wild yeasts, the addition of sugar to the must, etc., but all that will do if lend nasty flavors.
As long as you start with quality juice, practice sanitary procedures, and follow the guidance provided in winemaking books, you'll be fine.
June 28th, 2009 at 1:07 pm
June 29th, 2009 at 2:30 am
I have something she can licks; and it aint my fingers!
June 29th, 2009 at 2:48 am
I don't know much about homemade wine but I did find this web site for you. It reads as if letting the wine age has nothing to do with increasing its alcohol content. The problem lies in keeping the fermentation process of the yeast going for a longer period of time (with the aid of ingredients found at wine stores or on the web). A sample from this site: "Apart from the warmth of your must, you might also like to add yeast nutrients – (found in most wine supply shops and online retailers) – to the mix. These nutrients help the yeast to keep reproducing, increasing the alcohol content, until it's time has come."
I also found this:
The way to determine if sugar is required is by testing the must with a hydrometer.
The hydrometer has a scale on it that is called "Potential Alcohol."
It is simply a scale of percentages–usually from 0 to 20–that
tells you how much alcohol can be made with the sugars that are
currently in the must.
For example, if you put the hydrometer in the must and get a
reading of 5 percent, this means that the must currently has
enough sugars to produce 5 percent worth of alcohol.
Once you know where you are at, the next step is to figure out
where you want to be. To take our previous example further, if
you know that you are currently at a potential alcohol level of 5
percent and what to be at 12 percent then you need to add and
dissolve sugar into the must until the hydrometer reads 12 on the
Potential Alcohol scale.
NOTE: To help you out, as a general rule-of-thumb, for every
pound of sugar you add to a 5 gallon batch you will increase the
potential alcohol level by 1 percent. This is not exact, but very
close and will save you a lot of time in making this adjustment.
It is recommended that you do not shoot for alcohol levels higher
than 13 percent. Quite often wine yeast will not to be able to
achieve these higher alcohol levels. The result being a massive
amount of left-over sugar in the finished wine making it too
sweet for any ones taste.
It is also recommended that you shoot for alcohol levels higher
than 9 percent as levels lower than this may fail to inhibit the
growth of molds and other micro-organisms in the wine while it is
being stored.
June 29th, 2009 at 9:19 am
For distilling http://homedistiller.org
More information than you would ever need to know about the distilling process. Covers theory, methods, still building, actual distilling, flavoring, etc.
For wine making http://winemaking.jackkeller.net
Also, for specific questions I recommend joining a winemaking forum. Members are always egger to help new hobbyist out with learning the art.
Note – In the USA, home wine and beer making is legal for those of legal drinking age. Up to 100 gallons per year, 200 gallons per year if there are 2 or more of legal drinking age in the residence. For personal and family use, may not be sold.
In the USA, home distilling other than for fuel or essence oils (less than a gallon) is not legal without proper license and permits
Happy wine making!
June 29th, 2009 at 12:53 pm
Holy Shit
!!!!!!