WINE-MAKING-KIT

How to Make Cheap Wine

To make cheap wine at home is to obtain varietal grape juice and some basic equipment from a homebrew supply store. The results will be awesome

The following quantities are required.

2 cans of juice concentrate (room temp). You can use any type of concentrate like Welch’s Concord grape, strawberry etc, 2 cups of sugar, 1 packet of champagne yeast, Water.

Steps:

• Never underestimate the importance of sanitizing! Sanitize everything you’re going to use to hold the fermenting wine, to keep bacteria from growing. The easy way to sanitize everything at once is to use your dishwasher at the high heat setting, with appropriate detergent.
• Buy a 1-gallon plastic jug of Reverse Osmosis water at the store. Bring the water to 144F for 22 minutes
• Add the room temperature juice concentrate to the clean, dry jug. Use the funnel if needed.
• While the water is hot, dissolve 2 cups of sugar into the water. Stir while pouring.
• You could activate the yeast following the directions on the packet. Another method of activating the yeast is to place 1 teaspoon of sugar into a separate bowl. Add 1/4 cup of luke-warm water (100-110 degrees Fahrenheit). Add the yeast. Let sit for 10 minutes. The yeast should become very frothy.
• Pour the dissolved sugar-water into the jug filled with the juice concentrate. If it is too warm, cool it by placing the jug into a sink filled with cool water; add ice cubes to rapidly cool the mixture and limit the time the open container is exposed to bacterial contamination.
• Touch to make sure the mix is cool, then add the yeast. Cap the jug and shake thoroughly to completely mix all the ingredients.
• Remove the cap of the bottle. Place a balloon over the top. Secure it by putting a rubber band or tape around it. The yeast produces CO2 and the balloon will expand. Very important: Poke a hole in the balloon with a pin. This will always keep the pressure positive in the jug and balloon to let CO2 out and at the same time does not let air in.
• Keep the jug at room temperature and do not expose it to direct sunlight. Wait for 10-14 days. When the mixture will suddenly go from cloudy to clear, transfer into another bottle or smaller bottles, leaving the sediment on the bottom of the first bottle, and then enjoy.

How to make wine: a comprehensive approach

Wine, the name itself is just enough to evoke various thoughts about this hugely popular beverage all over the world. Like so many others it’s probable that you too have wondered about tasting your home made wine in your backyard lawn along with your loved ones, but never gave it a try, considering it as not a child’s play. So here’s help, let’s try to learn an easy and practical method to make wine, and that too at your home. There’s one thing which is worth mentioning here is that there are numerous ways to make wine, but here we are going to make us acquainted with the easiest method. So let’s go ahead learn ‘how to make wine’.

The necessary ingredients to be collected:

The first step in our endeavor to make wine is to collect the following ingredients. So what for are we waiting, let’s jump in to collect them.

v  At least 3 litres of 100% pure grape juice

v  4-5 empty bottles of glass

v  Granulated sugar

v  Dry Baker’s Yeast

v  2-3 centilitres of clean water

v  A funnel

Starting the process of fermentation:

We are going to learn the first step to make our wine. Let’s distribute the contents of the three bottles of wine juice into four new 1 litre bottles. Now we have 4 bottles, each containing 75 centiliters of grape juice. It’s time to mix 2.5 teaspoons of granulated sugar in each bottle and shake them very well, until we get a proper mixture. Granulated sugar is intended to increase the alcohol volume of the wine by turning the sugar content of the juice and also the extra sugar into alcohol.

Now we will make a homogenous mixture with 2-3 centiliters of clean water, 0.5 teaspoons of baker’s yeas and 1 teaspoon of granulated sugar and put it in a glass. If we leave this mixture for 2-3 hours, a thick layer of foam will appear on the surface of the water. Now it’s time to add around a quarter of this layer of foam and 3 teaspoons of sugar and yeast to each of the four bottles of grape juice that we have already prepared earlier and seal the bottles to make them air tight. Finally we have reached the stage where we will have to place the bottles in an odorless and dark place. After 10-12 days sediment should get formed at the bottoms of the bottles.

The Process of Aging

If you want to enhance the aroma and taste of your wine, all you need is to be a bit more patient. Transfer the contents from your old bottles and pour them in new ones and fill as much as you can to minimize the air remaining inside the bottles. Now it depends on your patience that how long you can wait. You can wait up to 4-5 or 6 months.

So what for are you waiting now, go ahead and start to make your own wine.