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