Make Homemade Wine

Here is how you can make wine at home.

Ingredients

 * lb. of grapes
 * 2 bags (3½ lb.) sugar
 * 1 oz. yeast
 * gallon water

Steps

 * 1) If you want to learn how to make homemade wine, there is no reason for not doing it. You don't need a license, a cellar, and the necessary utensils are probably in your home to begin with. It doesn't take a lot of work either to learn How to Make Homemade Wine.
 * 2) The first thing you need to learn is the do's and don'ts of winemaking.
 * 3) * Do
 * 4) ** Rack at least once, and twice if possible.
 * 5) ** Use new corks and boil the old ones.
 * 6) ** Keep your first ferment covered.
 * 7) ** Keep the secondary fermentation air-free.
 * 8) ** Keep your equipment clean.
 * 9) ** Keep all bottles full.
 * 10) ** Add sugar progressively and keep records with high level of detail.
 * 11) ** Keep red wines in dark bottles so they don't lose their appearance.
 * 12) ** Use reliable yeast nutrient frequently.
 * 13) ** Make wines too dry instead of too sweet: add sugar later.
 * 14) ** Use fermentation traps.
 * 15) ** Taste the wine at intervals to make sure the process is going well.
 * 16) Don't
 * 17) ** Sell your wine. It is illegal. Don't try to distill your own wine either.
 * 18) ** Let vinegar flies come in contact with your wine.
 * 19) ** Use metal vessels.
 * 20) ** Use tools or containers made out of resinous wood.
 * 21) ** Forget to stir a must twice a day.
 * 22) ** Use a lot of sugar.
 * 23) ** Try to speed up fermentation by turning up the temperature.
 * 24) ** Be hasty.
 * 25) ** Let dead yeast or sediment anywhere near your wine.
 * 26) ** Filter without a reason or too soon.
 * 27) ** Store your wine in unsterilized jars or bottles.
 * 28) ** Bottle your wine before it's done fermenting.
 * 29) ** Employ screw-stopper bottles.
 * 30) Now that you have a good sense of what you should do and what you shouldn't, I will show you one of my favorite wine recipes and in no time you can learn How to Make Homemade Wine.
 * 31) * Either black, green or amber grapes may be used for this recipe and the resulting wine will suit almost every taste.
 * 32) Strip the grapes from the stalks and then squash them by hand.
 * 33) Pour the boiling water on them and leave to soak for forty-eight hours.
 * 34) Strain and put the juice through a jelly-bag.
 * 35) Allow to drain and then mix into the fermenting vessel and add the sugar.
 * 36) Mix until the sugar is dissolved -this will take a lot of time with cold grape-juice.
 * 37) Once all the sugar is dissolved, sprinkle the yeast on top and stir in.
 * 38) Seal, and ferment for fourteen days; after which proceed with bottling.

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