What? No horrid loud music? No rambling off on topics unrelated to the topic? Followed your directions and got a great batch of wine from our backyard grapes. Thkx!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thank you very much for your appreciation and taking time to comment. It is always good to hear that my videos have been helpful. Best wishes from Nick.
That was a informative article, here are a few more tips for how to make wine… Use the right equipment. Things like plastic buckets and bins come in different grades of plastic. You must use the food-grade plastic products not the cheaper buckets you might use to clean the floor! If plastic buckets and bins start getting scratched and grazed, replace them. The grazes will start harbouring microbes and eventually you’ll have a spoilt batch of wine. If stirring the must (the initial mix of fruit and water etc.) in a bin, scald the spoon with boiling water first to quickly sterilise it. Fill and top up airlocks with cooled, boiled water - never straight from the sink. Avoid metal spoons and sieves with fermenting wine - i.e. after the yeast has been added. Sometimes they can taint the wine. Avoid wooden spoons, which are hard to sterilise - plastic is far better. Reusing wine bottles is fine, ask friends to save them for you and check with local clubs or restaurants who are often happy to give them to you. Wash out immediately as a clean bottle will be a lot easier to sterilise when you come to use them. Rack your wine to clear it before bottling. That is, using a syphon tube, suck up the wine from one demijohn into another leaving the sediment (called lees) behind. The tubes with a base and valve are cheap enough and a make this quicker. Allow the wine to settle for a week and repeat if necessary before bottling Never judge your wine by the taste as you bottle it. Most often you will think it's a disaster. Some wines can take 2 years to mature. As a general rule, try a bottle after 5 or 6 months. If it tastes harsh, leave the rest for at least another six months. Allow time. Time is the great wine maker and you should never be in a rush. We’ve made wine that was nnine months in the demijohn before bottling and drunk it three years later. The next year it was even better! (Reference: Pavas grape plan website )
I can't believe half of these comments... "too much work" "chemistry lab" "you need alot of equipment". Haha. This sounds like the kinds of people who won't last very long after the apocalypse. This detailed video on how to make wine looks like a cakewalk compared to all grain beer brewing. Seriously, just do a bit of further research. You can buy all the tools to make wine for about £100 and that's being generous. Producing alcohol is extremely easy. But making quality products requires a research, experiments and experience. Its fun. Give it a go!
I think worrying about the amount of equipment is fine, you wont be able to get those in the apocalypse either and knowing the old ways to do it without cutting corners keeps helpful knowledge alive. I mean, what happens if one of your fancy glass doohickeys breaks and Amazon isnt a thing anymore?
What did you expect? The channel is called LearnHow2. If you're looking to flip on your faucet and turn water into wine, go check out Jesus Christ's channel.
One problem he put sealed lid on the mash with yeast added ? Cant put a sealed lid on you need a air lock or the lid will burst off it has to release the gas
Wow, I'm an idiot. Never did I think you'd have to sterilize things before use. Good to know when I start making wines of my own. Thanks for the video!
@bertydastard Thanks for your comments. The seeds wont do any harm, filter them out by transfering to a second demijohn and passing the juice through a muslin cloth.
Thanks for a very interesting post, here are a few more tips for how to make wine… Use the right equipment. Things like plastic buckets and bins come in different grades of plastic. You must use the food-grade plastic products not the cheaper buckets you might use to clean the floor! If plastic buckets and bins start getting scratched and grazed, replace them. The grazes will start harbouring microbes and eventually you’ll have a spoilt batch of wine. If stirring the must (the initial mix of fruit and water etc.) in a bin, scald the spoon with boiling water first to quickly sterilise it. Fill and top up airlocks with cooled, boiled water - never straight from the sink.
@macandmit I would not recommend trying to insert corks without a tool. You can buy a hand corker for about £4 ($2-50). The tool in the video is more expensive. Also there is a thing called a Zork - it seems to be like a sealed cap but I dont know much about them or where you buy them from.
Tyvm...I made some strawberry wine..I am going to open a btl today..but, I did everything u did, except for the campden pills in the strawberrys...omg, I hope I didn't mess up. Oh well, a lesson learned...I am fixing to do more strawberry, after thanksgiving ..and I will follow your way. Ty again for this complete video..
Very interesting video, this year I also published a video in which I show traditional homemade wine as our grandfathers from Bulgaria made it. I will ask you to add subtitles so that people who don't speak your language can understand, I always add.
There are natural sugars in the grapes but they alone will not produce an alcohol content similar to that of wine. By adding sugar, you give the yeast more "food" and therefore they will continue to produce alcohol. You can add just yeast if you want but it's never going to get up to 11-16% alcohol. Hope this helps.
@THEKIND253 The best test is to taste them - if they taste sweet and have a good flavour then they're ready. If they taste 'acidic' or 'tarty' then they are not quite ready - this flavour will give your wine an acidic taste. Colour is next - green grapes turn white or yellow, red take on a deep hue. Also if the birds are eating them that is a good sign.
Question, when you sterilised your bottles or Demi john , do you rinse them with water afterwards or are they ok to use dry? I have a bit of an after taste that am worried about. Thanks
Good video. The Campden tablets are essential - I tried last year without them and the wine oxidised - this year am doing it by the book and is much better.
You don't need yeast provided you don't mind bugs. I have seen it done in Naples Italy and did it my self. You smash the grapes leave them outside and wait about a week or two drain it and there you go wine.
+Bern Clark I\'m not sure but ,if anyone else wants to learn about how to make wine at home from fruit try Wiltapar Wonderful Wine Secrets (do a search on google ) ? Ive heard some awesome things about it and my mate got excellent results with it.
+Bern Clark I\'m not sure but ,if anyone else needs to find out about how to make wine at home step by step try Wiltapar Wonderful Wine Secrets (should be on google have a look ) ? Ive heard some awesome things about it and my mate got great success with it.
+Bern Clark hi everyone ,if anyone else needs to find out about how to make wine from fruits try Wiltapar Wonderful Wine Secrets ( search on google ) ? Ive heard some decent things about it and my colleague got great results with it.
hi everyone ,if anyone else trying to find out how to make wine at home step by step try Wiltapar Wonderful Wine Secrets ( search on google ) ? Ive heard some decent things about it and my mate got great success with it.
***** find that pretty hard to believe.. I've had some horrible wines from the store and some amazing wines home brewed. just depends if you follow the steps, work hard, and pay close attention to details. simple really.
This is the best video and most straighten forward instruction that i so far found in TH-cam. Thank you for this video and your VERY CLEAR and METHODICAL instruction. Finally someone succeeded to make a proper TH-cam video. Thanks a Bunch to nickmitch6
I have watched the video and read details on your website. I've guesstimated and hope I'm close, but how many grapes did you start with? If I missed where you stand what you started with I apologize for asking.
Especially your advice concerning how to make wine at home video at home step by step. Another resource I also found useful for how to make wine from raw fruit was Corbandy Tasty Wine Crusher - it will be on google if you need it
It takes about 90 pounds of grapes to make 5 or 6 gallons of wine. I forget which. That sounds like a lot but one mature vine can produce like 20 pounds of grapes.
Could we add a step 25 B for back sweetening by adding maybe a cup of grape juice from the same grapes to 1 gallon of wine if the wife doesn't like dry wine? Thanks again! Maybe you can answer all 3 of my questions here, and then I can thank you dearly.
Good clear instructions! I didn’t realise it could be months before the second fermentation stopped... we have grapes on a vine here and I wondered if I could freeze them for later use, as we might be moving house before the second fermentation has finished. If I can freeze them, is it better to leave them in bunches, or remove the grapes, clean and then freeze them..? Many thanks. M x
Yes you can freeze them. I take each grape from the stem and put them on a tray covered with greaseproof paper (so the grapes form a single layer and dont stick to each other or the tray), then freeze them. When frozen take from tray and put in a sealed bag in the freezer until you need them.
what recipe is this? i looked on the web site and cant find anything, I'm just starting off and need to a write up on how much sugar i need to add, how many grapes i need for "X" about of gallons .
I'm making wine for the first time. The only part I don't understand is how you know how much sugar to dissolve in the water due to the specific gravity. My specific gravity is 135 grams, so how much sugar should I put in?
We drink more wine than beer but have had better luck making beer at home than wine, meaning the quality is better and closer to the better commercial stuff.
On step 22 - 23, how do you know when the fermentation process has finished? You say it takes several months, but is there a definite sign that this process has finished?
i am trying to learn also. i think when the yeast starts to slow down and making bubbles. as with making bread the yeast will only rise so far. i am told to get a yeast that is for the type of wine i am making. i went to the bev. people locally and that is what they sold me.this will be my first attempt to make wine from our 85 year old vine. white with seeds. hope it is worth it.
I tried everything .... and it came out great .. bur i have one question... what happens if the the air enters inside the fermentation jar ... no other harmful materials just air ... will my wine become a vinegar??? It has started to smell like Kambuja tea
If it is a small amount of air then no problem - any bacteria will die off. If it is a large amount then it may spoil your wine. For best results - keep air out and keep jars sealed.
LearnHow2 okay, they dont sale airlock or those fancy jars in my country ... so im trying it hard ... how about i put a lid on it and just open a little for the air to escape? Will it spoil my wine ?
Hi, I have made a Youngs homemade white wine kit only today and it needed topping up to 4.8 ltrs but the demi john was too small, so i couldn't fit it in. I immediately transferred it to another demi john i have which is absolutely massive, the demi john is only about 1/5th full of wine as its that big. My question is this, does it matter that there is a large area of just air? It does have a bubbler airlock fitted on it with a rubber bung, so no air can get in. Day 1 is today, will it be okay
hi all i been makin homemade wine for years dont use sodium metabisulfates just the natural way my tip try usin a juicer and then staight into demi jon works great
There are a few factors in how to grow grapes plant. One plan I found which successfully combines these is the Grape grower folio (check it out on google) it's the no.1 plan that I've seen. look at all the interesting information.
Is it possible after filtering out the primary fermentation into the secondary bucket to leave it in there for the secondary fermentation (instead of the demijon)??thanks for the video!
@asdsadsadsa212132131 I dont think so. In the early stages the alcohol content is low. Also there is a large amount of carbon dioxide gas being given off causing a gas flow out of the juice and I assume any air will be expelled with it. I've had no problem with my fermentation using this method.
the removing the grapes from the stalk is a pain in the ass, we had a very good harvest this year probally around 25 pound or so from 1 grape plant, i plan on getting another couple so we can make larger batches of good organic wine we use no pesticides on any of our fruit trees or grapes
A few questions..How much time elapses between Step 17 & 21? After squeezing the grapes into the second bucket and adding to demijohn(carboy) how long does it sit? Also how do you know fermentation is complete? No bubbling from airlock?Thanks
I was told to watch the airlock. Also, based on the type of yeast you used, It may take longer. I am being told, to be safe, to let it sit for another month in a consistent 70 degree area. First time for me, but my grapes looked and tasted amazing from the start, so who knows how this will go.
Todd Edmondson Just be very careful when judging whether or not fermentation is done by observing the airlock. My dad once lost at least 25 litres of wine because it appeared that no more bubbling was occurring in the airlock and he decided the fermentation was finished. The pressure built up in the demijohn after he plugged it with the solid rubber stopper and shattered the vessel. Wine all over our basement floor.
Thanks for the video, can I use normal bread yeast when making rice wine? Second question is can I extract the yeast from a bottle of wine and use it as a starter, for example. Can I use a commercially avalable wine and use the liquid in there as a starter for my (grape juice). My guess is that any bottled wine should contain yeast?
No you can't. There is no yeast in the bottled wine anymore. And if, it is on the bottom of the bottle and it is dead. Why dont you buy bakers yeast in a grocery? It does the job perfect.
hello everyone!!! I have a question, can you raise the alcohol content higher by restarting the process all over again once the first run is done? I mean after the yeast has died and the wine is completed.
Yeast die at a certian alcohol level. You could say they die from alcohol poisoning. If you add fresh yeast it is possible they would find some sugars to ferment but would soon be overcome by alcohol volume. Champagne yeast will give you a little higher ABV.
dbkstylez No, you can only find higher alcohol tolerant yeast.. at a certain percentage, the yeast dies. The only way to make it stronger is distilling the alcohol but that would make liquor.. it's no longer wine.
What? No horrid loud music? No rambling off on topics unrelated to the topic?
Followed your directions and got a great batch of wine from our backyard grapes.
Thkx!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
same!
How long did your second fermentation take please..? M x
Thank you very much for your appreciation and taking time to comment. It is always good to hear that my videos have been helpful. Best wishes from Nick.
That was a informative article, here are a few more tips for how to make wine…
Use the right equipment. Things like plastic buckets and bins come in different grades of plastic. You must use the food-grade plastic products not the cheaper buckets you might use to clean the floor!
If plastic buckets and bins start getting scratched and grazed, replace them. The grazes will start harbouring microbes and eventually you’ll have a spoilt batch of wine.
If stirring the must (the initial mix of fruit and water etc.) in a bin, scald the spoon with boiling water first to quickly sterilise it.
Fill and top up airlocks with cooled, boiled water - never straight from the sink.
Avoid metal spoons and sieves with fermenting wine - i.e. after the yeast has been added. Sometimes they can taint the wine. Avoid wooden spoons, which are hard to sterilise - plastic is far better.
Reusing wine bottles is fine, ask friends to save them for you and check with local clubs or restaurants who are often happy to give them to you. Wash out immediately as a clean bottle will be a lot easier to sterilise when you come to use them.
Rack your wine to clear it before bottling. That is, using a syphon tube, suck up the wine from one demijohn into another leaving the sediment (called lees) behind. The tubes with a base and valve are cheap enough and a make this quicker. Allow the wine to settle for a week and repeat if necessary before bottling
Never judge your wine by the taste as you bottle it. Most often you will think it's a disaster. Some wines can take 2 years to mature. As a general rule, try a bottle after 5 or 6 months. If it tastes harsh, leave the rest for at least another six months.
Allow time. Time is the great wine maker and you should never be in a rush. We’ve made wine that was nnine months in the demijohn before bottling and drunk it three years later. The next year it was even better!
(Reference: Pavas grape plan website )
I wonder who was that first guy to drink rotten fruit juice
I'll do you better one: I wonder who was that guy to drink wild animal milk.
@@joons3374
Or what about the guy who left that milk out in the hot sun for a day, then tried eating it anyway.
Dominique justin actually, animals have been documented to eat rotten fruit and get drunk on it. You can find videos of this in TH-cam
Dominique justin his name was Demi John
@@nawec8484
What?
Very interesting video! I can appreciate wine so much more after seeing the long process of it. Thanks for sharing!
I can't believe half of these comments... "too much work"
"chemistry lab"
"you need alot of equipment".
Haha.
This sounds like the kinds of people who won't last very long after the apocalypse.
This detailed video on how to make wine looks like a cakewalk compared to all grain beer brewing.
Seriously, just do a bit of further research. You can buy all the tools to make wine for about £100 and that's being generous.
Producing alcohol is extremely easy. But making quality products requires a research, experiments and experience.
Its fun. Give it a go!
Is it required to get the measuring thing??
@@KaitlynBurtonISaGOD no you don't but it would be easier if you do
@@Mrmesteriouss so really you only need to squash grapes and add that stuff??
@@KaitlynBurtonISaGOD eh ya just do everything else in the video
I think worrying about the amount of equipment is fine, you wont be able to get those in the apocalypse either and knowing the old ways to do it without cutting corners keeps helpful knowledge alive. I mean, what happens if one of your fancy glass doohickeys breaks and Amazon isnt a thing anymore?
I feel like an archeologist right now
AT HOME? That looks like a chemistry experiment!
You right..😅😅
What did you expect? The channel is called LearnHow2. If you're looking to flip on your faucet and turn water into wine, go check out Jesus Christ's channel.
@@RaviPatel-lk4ho 0
@@crystalsimmons9920 what
Says the boring person who failed science class
Very good and short recap of how to make wine at home. Thanks for the video
One problem he put sealed lid on the mash with yeast added ? Cant put a sealed lid on you need a air lock or the lid will burst off it has to release the gas
Wow, I'm an idiot. Never did I think you'd have to sterilize things before use. Good to know when I start making wines of my own. Thanks for the video!
@bertydastard Thanks for your comments. The seeds wont do any harm, filter them out by transfering to a second demijohn and passing the juice through a muslin cloth.
Thanks for a very interesting post, here are a few more tips for how to make wine…
Use the right equipment. Things like plastic buckets and bins come in different grades of plastic. You must use the food-grade plastic products not the cheaper buckets you might use to clean the floor!
If plastic buckets and bins start getting scratched and grazed, replace them. The grazes will start harbouring microbes and eventually you’ll have a spoilt batch of wine.
If stirring the must (the initial mix of fruit and water etc.) in a bin, scald the spoon with boiling water first to quickly sterilise it.
Fill and top up airlocks with cooled, boiled water - never straight from the sink.
Thanks for your comment. It is very important to your health to use the correct grade of plastic.
Very good detailed video for anyone serious about making wine to last and make the flavor pop
@cbeaudot thanks for the comment. Good luck with your wine making. Let us know how it goes.
What a great video! You were so straight forward, perfect instructions.
@macandmit I would not recommend trying to insert corks without a tool. You can buy a hand corker for about £4 ($2-50). The tool in the video is more expensive. Also there is a thing called a Zork - it seems to be like a sealed cap but I dont know much about them or where you buy them from.
Looks like a very good video for homemade wine with grapes. Thanks for putting this together.
Tyvm...I made some strawberry wine..I am going to open a btl today..but, I did everything u did, except for the campden pills in the strawberrys...omg, I hope I didn't mess up. Oh well, a lesson learned...I am fixing to do more strawberry, after thanksgiving ..and I will follow your way. Ty again for this complete video..
@G18ALA I didnt add any water. All the liquid in the brewing bucket is pure grape juice.
@THEKIND253 Thanks for your kind comment - it is much appreciated
How much water for 1 gallon
What's the difference between the process for making red and white wines? Or is it the same process, but just using different grapes?
Very interesting video, this year I also published a video in which I show traditional homemade wine as our grandfathers from Bulgaria made it. I will ask you to add subtitles so that people who don't speak your language can understand, I always add.
Thanks Mincho. Unfortunately I cannot add subtitles for every language - it is too time consuming.
There are natural sugars in the grapes but they alone will not produce an alcohol content similar to that of wine. By adding sugar, you give the yeast more "food" and therefore they will continue to produce alcohol. You can add just yeast if you want but it's never going to get up to 11-16% alcohol. Hope this helps.
@THEKIND253 The best test is to taste them - if they taste sweet and have a good flavour then they're ready. If they taste 'acidic' or 'tarty' then they are not quite ready - this flavour will give your wine an acidic taste. Colour is next - green grapes turn white or yellow, red take on a deep hue. Also if the birds are eating them that is a good sign.
Fantastic instructions... as a newby really pleased to have found you.. Thank youi
1:19 makes me want to stick pencils in my ears
Question, when you sterilised your bottles or Demi john , do you rinse them with water afterwards or are they ok to use dry? I have a bit of an after taste that am worried about. Thanks
Good video. The Campden tablets are essential - I tried last year without them and the wine oxidised - this year am doing it by the book and is much better.
Thank you for posting this..I always wondered how they did this.
thanks for your comment, glad to be of help.
You don't need yeast provided you don't mind bugs. I have seen it done in Naples Italy and did it my self. You smash the grapes leave them outside and wait about a week or two drain it and there you go wine.
Nice. I know how to wine now. It would be fun to try it someday.
to much work
If you're just trying to get drunk.. Yeah. But some people enjoy making it.
Good video well done.
+Bern Clark I\'m not sure but ,if anyone else wants to learn about how to make wine at home from fruit try Wiltapar Wonderful Wine Secrets (do a search on google ) ? Ive heard some awesome things about it and my mate got excellent results with it.
+Bern Clark I\'m not sure but ,if anyone else needs to find out about how to make wine at home step by step try Wiltapar Wonderful Wine Secrets (should be on google have a look ) ? Ive heard some awesome things about it and my mate got great success with it.
+Bern Clark hi everyone ,if anyone else needs to find out about how to make wine from fruits try Wiltapar Wonderful Wine Secrets ( search on google ) ? Ive heard some decent things about it and my colleague got great results with it.
hi everyone ,if anyone else trying to find out how to make wine at home step by step try Wiltapar Wonderful Wine Secrets ( search on google ) ? Ive heard some decent things about it and my mate got great success with it.
Very well explained. Thank You !!
to much for me i go to Walmart and buy me a bottle for 10 bucks........ty
enjoy your piss
***** find that pretty hard to believe.. I've had some horrible wines from the store and some amazing wines home brewed. just depends if you follow the steps, work hard, and pay close attention to details. simple really.
Thanks for sharing! I'm just getting into wine making myself.
I thought it was just gonna be grape juice sugar and yeast. Theres so much more that goes into wine making than I thought.
Depends also on what yeast you used?? youngs turbo yeast will ferment VERY quick even in 4 days
This is the best video and most straighten forward instruction that i so far found in TH-cam.
Thank you for this video and your VERY CLEAR and METHODICAL instruction. Finally someone succeeded to make a proper TH-cam video.
Thanks a Bunch to nickmitch6
I have watched the video and read details on your website. I've guesstimated and hope I'm close, but how many grapes did you start with? If I missed where you stand what you started with I apologize for asking.
Especially your advice concerning how to make wine at home video at home step by step. Another resource I also found useful for how to make wine from raw fruit was Corbandy Tasty Wine Crusher - it will be on google if you need it
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What is the flavor of the wine? Is the sugar absolutely necessary? I really don't like sweet wine.. It gives me a headache.
Bad way.
You should not use chemicals. Use wild yeast instead of commercial yeast.
Dont use sugar in the primary fermentation.
It takes about 90 pounds of grapes to make 5 or 6 gallons of wine. I forget which. That sounds like a lot but one mature vine can produce like 20 pounds of grapes.
very nice i wish i could get the print out thanks
Are you trying to match the same specific gravity at the end of primary fermentation that you had when you first started?
Nice, Thanks! I have made wine before but more like "hobo"wine, now I want to make some the correct way!
Animalier this is far from the correct way
Could we add a step 25 B for back sweetening by adding maybe a cup of grape juice from the same grapes to 1 gallon of wine if the wife doesn't like dry wine? Thanks again! Maybe you can answer all 3 of my questions here, and then I can thank you dearly.
Good clear instructions! I didn’t realise it could be months before the second fermentation stopped...
we have grapes on a vine here and I wondered if I could freeze them for later use, as we might be moving house before the second fermentation has finished. If I can freeze them, is it better to leave them in bunches, or remove the grapes, clean and then freeze them..? Many thanks. M x
Yes you can freeze them. I take each grape from the stem and put them on a tray covered with greaseproof paper (so the grapes form a single layer and dont stick to each other or the tray), then freeze them. When frozen take from tray and put in a sealed bag in the freezer until you need them.
LearnHow2 Thank you so much for that clear advice. Cheers! M x
what recipe is this? i looked on the web site and cant find anything, I'm just starting off and need to a write up on how much sugar i need to add, how many grapes i need for "X" about of gallons .
I'm making wine for the first time. The only part I don't understand is how you know how much sugar to dissolve in the water due to the specific gravity. My specific gravity is 135 grams, so how much sugar should I put in?
It depends on the alcohol level you want to end up with. Its all explained on my website www.the-gift-of-wine.com
for primary fermentation in the demijohns should there it be filled to the top to prevent the air from oxidizing the wine? or is air ok?
We drink more wine than beer but have had better luck making beer at home than wine, meaning the quality is better and closer to the better commercial stuff.
On step 22 - 23, how do you know when the fermentation process has finished? You say it takes several months, but is there a definite sign that this process has finished?
When the bubbles stop its done.
Hi, i would like to know for a 5 gallon bucket, how is the relation in fruit and water? How many pounts of fruit and litters of water? Thanks!.
i am trying to learn also. i think when the yeast starts to slow down and making bubbles. as with making bread the yeast will only rise so far. i am told to get a yeast that is for the type of wine i am making. i went to the bev. people locally and that is what they sold me.this will be my first attempt to make wine from our 85 year old vine. white with seeds. hope it is worth it.
This is useful and simple, thankyou
I tried everything .... and it came out great .. bur i have one question... what happens if the the air enters inside the fermentation jar ... no other harmful materials just air ... will my wine become a vinegar??? It has started to smell like Kambuja tea
If it is a small amount of air then no problem - any bacteria will die off. If it is a large amount then it may spoil your wine. For best results - keep air out and keep jars sealed.
LearnHow2 okay, they dont sale airlock or those fancy jars in my country ... so im trying it hard ... how about i put a lid on it and just open a little for the air to escape? Will it spoil my wine ?
do i add water ? if so how much .. or is it just grapes
what are the calculations one has to do to determine the amount of sugar to add?
Hi, I have made a Youngs homemade white wine kit only today and it needed topping up to 4.8 ltrs but the demi john was too small, so i couldn't fit it in.
I immediately transferred it to another demi john i have which is absolutely massive, the demi john is only about 1/5th full of wine as its that big.
My question is this, does it matter that there is a large area of just air? It does have a bubbler airlock fitted on it with a rubber bung, so no air can get in.
Day 1 is today, will it be okay
AT step 11 after you add the yeast, do you seal the top of the primary brewing bucket completely air tight or does the yeast need to breath? Thanks!
Thanks
Is there another way to meashure the gravity of the wine?
I think I’ll stick to hard cider. it’s a lot easier to make, then buy wine when I want to take things up a notch.
Geez when he drags that potato smasher its like claws on chalkboard
hi all i been makin homemade wine for years dont use sodium metabisulfates just the natural way my tip try usin a juicer and then staight into demi jon works great
There are a few factors in how to grow grapes plant. One plan I found which successfully combines these is the Grape grower folio (check it out on google) it's the no.1 plan that I've seen. look at all the interesting information.
Is it possible after filtering out the primary fermentation into the secondary bucket to leave it in there for the secondary fermentation (instead of the demijon)??thanks for the video!
No. The contact with the air bacteria in the secondary bucket will eventually turn the alcohol into vinegar. Keep safe.
@asdsadsadsa212132131 I dont think so. In the early stages the alcohol content is low. Also there is a large amount of carbon dioxide gas being given off causing a gas flow out of the juice and I assume any air will be expelled with it. I've had no problem with my fermentation using this method.
long you leave it longer, it's better taste?
Who is here during quarantine
where/when in this process, could I use an Oak barrel that I have available?
nice...the website also helps so much...
hi do i add water 2 the demijohn and how much tar
the removing the grapes from the stalk is a pain in the ass, we had a very good harvest this year probally around 25 pound or so from 1 grape plant, i plan on getting another couple so we can make larger batches of good organic wine we use no pesticides on any of our fruit trees or grapes
did this last year and it was too sweet with the second batch of sugar. do I need this?
Can i use normal yeast
No. It must be wine yeast. Keep safe.
A few questions..How much time elapses between Step 17 & 21? After squeezing the grapes into the second bucket and adding to demijohn(carboy) how long does it sit? Also how do you know fermentation is complete? No bubbling from airlock?Thanks
I was told to watch the airlock. Also, based on the type of yeast you used, It may take longer. I am being told, to be safe, to let it sit for another month in a consistent 70 degree area. First time for me, but my grapes looked and tasted amazing from the start, so who knows how this will go.
Todd Edmondson
Todd Edmondson
Just be very careful when judging whether or not fermentation is done by observing the airlock. My dad once lost at least 25 litres of wine because it appeared that no more bubbling was occurring in the airlock and he decided the fermentation was finished. The pressure built up in the demijohn after he plugged it with the solid rubber stopper and shattered the vessel. Wine all over our basement floor.
Aaron Silver m
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How do u read the hydrometer
Step 1 - go to the liquor store and select a bottle of your favorite wine
Step 2 - drink and enjoy !
Thanks for the video, can I use normal bread yeast when making rice wine? Second question is can I extract the yeast from a bottle of wine and use it as a starter, for example. Can I use a commercially avalable wine and use the liquid in there as a starter for my (grape juice). My guess is that any bottled wine should contain yeast?
No you can't. There is no yeast in the bottled wine anymore. And if, it is on the bottom of the bottle and it is dead. Why dont you buy bakers yeast in a grocery? It does the job perfect.
Otherwise it sits at the bottom like a layer of sand and the yeast cant get at it.
What did you do that sugary water ?
Bravo
Nice Video!
Pls provide us link for specific gravity measurement
can u also use vinegar instead of yeast?
Where can i obtain all the apparatus to make wine?
would the same method work with blackberries?
what was used to crush the grapes?
Good video...How many lbs of grapes will produce 5 gallon of wine?
20 kilo would be good I used 40 kilo for 10 gallon you need to make 14 / 15 gallon at start to get 10 gallon after you take all mash out .
What are those discs developed by?
Excellent....
Grape wine is probably my favorite. This looks like the best way to do it, except I don't have all the shit to do it lol
can you tell me how they make a sweeter wine?
hello everyone!!! I have a question, can you raise the alcohol content higher by restarting the process all over again once the first run is done? I mean after the yeast has died and the wine is completed.
Yeast die at a certian alcohol level. You could say they die from alcohol poisoning. If you add fresh yeast it is possible they would find some sugars to ferment but would soon be overcome by alcohol volume. Champagne yeast will give you a little higher ABV.
dbkstylez No, you can only find higher alcohol tolerant yeast.. at a certain percentage, the yeast dies. The only way to make it stronger is distilling the alcohol but that would make liquor.. it's no longer wine.
thk you
What kind of grapes were you using for this wine?