| How to Make Homemade Wine | Discover How to | | | | - Forget to stir a must twice a day. |
| Make Your Own Unique Wine | | | | - Use too much sugar. |
| | | | - Try to speed up fermentation by increasing the |
| If you want to learn how to make homemade | | | | temperature. |
| wine, there is no reason for not doing it. You don't | | | | - Be impatient. |
| need a license, a cellar, and the utensils you need | | | | - Let dead yeast or sediment anywhere close to |
| are probably in your home to begin with. It | | | | your wine. |
| doesn't take a lot of work either to learn How to | | | | - Filter for no reasonor too soon. |
| Make Homemade Wine. | | | | - Store your wine in unsterilized jars or bottles. |
| The first issue you need to learn is the do's and | | | | - Bottle your wine before it's done fermenting. |
| don'ts of winemaking. | | | | - Employ screw-stopper bottles. |
| Do | | | | Now that you have a good sense of what you |
| - Rack at least once, and twice if possible. | | | | should do and what you shouldn't, I will share with |
| - Use new corks and boil the old ones. | | | | you one of my favorite wine recipes and in no |
| - Keep your first ferment covered. | | | | time you can learn How to Make Homemade |
| - Keep the secondary fermentation air-free. | | | | Wine. |
| - Keep your equipment clean. | | | | Either black, green or amber grapes can be used |
| - Keep all bottles filled. | | | | for this recipe and the resulting wine will suit |
| - Add sugar by stages and keep records with | | | | almost every taste. |
| high level of detail. | | | | 2 bags (4 lb.) of grapes - 2 bags (3½ lb.) of |
| - Keep red wines in dark bottles so they don't | | | | sugar - 1 oz. yeast |
| lose their color. | | | | 1 gallon water. |
| - Use trustworthy yeast nutrient frequently. | | | | Separate the grapes from the stalks and then |
| - Make wines too dry rather than too sweet: add | | | | crush them by hand. Pour the boiling water over |
| sugar later. | | | | them and leave to soak for forty-eight hours. |
| - Use fermentation traps. | | | | Strain and put the juice through a jelly-bag. Allow |
| - Taste the wine at intervals to make sure the | | | | to drain and then pour into the fermenting vessel |
| process is going well. | | | | and add the sugar. |
| Don't | | | | Mix until the sugar is dissolved -this will take a lot |
| - Sell your wine. It is illegal. Don't try to distil your | | | | of time with cold grape-juice. When all the sugar is |
| own wine either. | | | | mixed well sprinkle the yeast on top and stir in. |
| - Let vinegar flies come in contact with your wine. | | | | Seal, and ferment for fourteen days; after which |
| - Use metal containers. | | | | proceed with bottling. It's so much bliss to learn |
| - Use tools or containers made out of resinous | | | | How to Make Homemade Wine. |
| wood. | | | | |