topic Re: Wine Making in Kitchen

Wine Making

gloriajean — Tue, 03 Mar 2015 01:53:58 GMT

My husband bought a bunch of grapes on sale and some strawberries, I washed them good from pesticides, with dishwashing soup and rinsing it off - that's what I learned today by googling. So we plan to make wine out of them, do we stem them or not? Some say yes some say no, and do they have to be cooked, mashed in the food processor? Or do you have any ideas?

I don't have any recipe for grape wine.

Re: Wine Making

HonnyBrown — Tue, 03 Mar 2015 02:10:42 GMT

Hi gloriajean! I guess your previous winemaking attempts were successful!

To answer your question, do a tour at several nearby wineries and see how they treat the grapes on an industrial level.

Another option is Meetups or online forums for winemakers.

I can't wait to read the results on the final product!

Re: Wine Making

child prodigy — Tue, 03 Mar 2015 02:20:57 GMT

The first thing I thought was take off your shoes and stomp on the grapes in a wooden vat or prisoners hiding bags of fruit to ferment. Sorry, that just popped in my head. I think you can probably find some good ideas online.

Re: Wine Making

Mothertrucker — Tue, 03 Mar 2015 05:29:53 GMT

I have only made balloon wine in college- But we definitely drank it!

Nutrition

1/4ounce active dry yeast
4 cups sugar
12 ounces frozen juice concentrate, any flavor except citrus, thawed
3 1/2quarts cold water
Combine the yeast, sugar and juice concentrate in a sterile gallon jug. Fill the jug the rest of the way with cold water. Shake jug to mix ingredients.

Rinse out a balloon, and fit it over the opening of the jug. Poke one small needle hole in balloon. Secure the balloon with a rubber band.
Place jug in a cool dark place. Within a day you will notice the balloon starting to expand. As the sugar turns to alcohol, the gasses released will fill up the balloon. When the balloon is deflated back to size; the wine is ready to drink. It takes about 6 weeks.
Be sure to siphon off the top and/or strain through a coffee filter. You DO NOT want to drink the residue in the bottom of the gallon jug.

Re: Wine Making

HonnyBrown — Wed, 04 Mar 2015 02:29:52 GMT

Balloon wine? In a jug??

I LOVE it!!!!!! I wouldn't drink it now, but I'm sure it was better than the Manichevitz in a Jug we drank!