How To Make WINE
| This is a very basic way to make wine. It uses ingredients from the grocery store. Except for the yeast.(You can use bread yeast & it will work & taste fine but wine yeast will make it taste more like regular store bought wine.) & alot fresher!! |
| What you will need!! 1. 1 Gallon 100% juice 2. 3.5 to 4# sugar 3. 1 Gallon water 4. Wine Yeast(bread yeast will do) 5. Pot at least 1.5 to 2 gallon 6. Container to ferment in(1 gallon jugs will work) 7. Air lock(balloons will work) Put juice in fridge for a few hours to help cool the boiled water |
1. Put 1 gallon of water into pot & get to a boil _____________________________________ 2. Add sugar while stirring. _____________________________________ 3. While sugar water is boiling for 15 minutes Sanitize fermenter, funnel, airlock & stopper. & anything else that will touch the wine. Just put some in & splash it around 2 or 3 times for a few seconds. If you don't have sanitizer use a weak solution of bleach water(Be careful with bleach & rinse thoroughly) & rinse with very hot tap water.(A no rinse sanitizer is easier & less chance of contamination.(but keep it simple for now) _____________________________________ 4. Put pot(Very hot- Be careful) into sink & fill sink with cold water. Put thermometer into pot if you have one.(If not cool until it is cool to touch(about 70) Add ice to water in sink if you have some to speed up cooling. _____________________________________ 5. Once water is down under 150(120 would be better) Add juice if the pot is big enough & cool to 70.(or cool water to 90, add juice & boiled water to fermenter.) _____________________________________ 6. Take a sample for a gravity reading if you have a hydrometer(no big deal if you don't) _____________________________________ 7. Add yeast onto must(it is now called must at this point)let it soak in on its own. They need to rehydrate. (You can rehydrate in some boiled(& cooled) sugar water before you add it or make a starter a couple days before.(more advanced stuff-keep it simple for now) _____________________________________ 7. Add sanitized airlock & stopper. Fill the airlock with sanitizer or vodka. You can also poke a few pinholes in a balloon & put that on top of the fermenter or water jugs!! 8. Let ferment for 2 weeks at 60-70 degrees & rack to another fermenter( or water jugs(sanitized) 2 more weeks & bottle or rack to more jugs. |
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