Wine Making

Wine Making - Juice It Up!

Obviously, the most popular fruit for making juice for wine is the grape—white, red, or black grapes.  When making a juice you always start with the fruit.  If the fruit is grapes, you can crush them and cook them into juice.  The same goes with any fruit.  It pays, of course, and saves a great deal of time to buy bottled fruit juice from the store.  Wine can be made with blueberries, apples, grapes, or even watermelon.  At home, you can use whatever happens to suit your preference.  You can go to a wine kit or wine ingredient factory to purchase wine making juice.  Usually you will find that the juices are sold in five-gallon size containers.  This wine is ready for sterilization and has been sulphanated.  The yeast has also been added.  It is essential to smell and taste your juice when you get it home.  These juices that come in the prepared form are juices made from grapes.  Note that whenever you smell this wine, it is supposed to smell slightly like wine.  The flavor should be like champagne.  If it passes the sniff and taste test, then you know that is has began fermenting.

Now how do you transform this juice into wine?  You need to put the juice into carboys (5 gallon).  Don’t fill them all the way up.  Leave about three or four inches.  Next, you fix the air trap into place.  Then the wine has to sit for about one month.  Leave no space for the liquid to expand or it will overflow.  Each and every day, you need to open your carboy and use a ladle or plastic spoon to stir the juice.  Make certain to let the gases escape by putting the bid back on loose whenever you’ve opened it.  You need to do the stirring process for a week.

The fermentation process will begin to slow down and you can transfer your wine making juice into other carboys.  In approximately one month, you will notice some sediment from the juice that has settled in the bottom.  You keep racking (transferring) the wine from carboy to carboy until fermentation is done—then it’s ready to drink or bottle up.

You can go through the same process using other kinds of juices using blackberries and blueberries for wine making juice is popular.  Blueberries have vitamins A and C.  It is quite a nutritious wine.  People prefer the blackberry juice because they think it tastes better.  Creating wine making juice using various fruits has been popular for many hundreds of years.  What you add to these juices makes the difference in taste no matter what fruit you prefer to use.  Making your wine at home does leave the door wide open for a whole array of fruit options for your juice.  Suppose you use a watermelon, or citrus fruit—the possibilities are endless.