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