Brew Your Own Wine
Posted onHere Are Some Basic Steps To Get You Started On How To Brew Your Own Wine
Step 1- PLAN and PREPARE. Plan on where you want your setup to be (Possibly your Kitchen, or a corner in your basement, or garage). Then prepare with what you are going to need, that way you don’t end up missing something in the middle of your project.
Step 2- What are you going to need? Things like corks, bottles, corker, siphon tubing, chemicals, primary and secondary fermentation vessels (milk jugs or a sanitized food grade storage container).
Step 3- Yeast. Over time wine makers have designed different strains and varieties of yeast. They are designed to extract exactly what we want from the fruit juices you are going to use. You can use regular bakers yeast and it works but not as well.
Step 4- Juices. If you are going to buy fruit juices at the store you need to read the label to make sure there are NO PRESERVATIVES! Preservatives are specifically there for kill off the yeast in the product.
Step 5- The Mixture. Your fruit juice must have a high enough sugar content so that the yest can feed off of it. Yeast eating sugar creates fermentation. If the juice doesn’t have a high enough sugar content, heat some water on your stove, dissolve in some sugar, then poor in fruit juice. The mixture should be sweet but not to overpowering. Now if there is to much sugar, add in some water and give it a good stir.
Ad 1 crushed campden tablet per gallon of your mixture. Put a paper towel over the gallon with a rubber band. You want air to get in and out but not little bugs that may be flying around it.
Let the Mixture sit over night. Within 24 hours fermentation will start to occur.