How to Make Wine from Grapes at Home

Hello and welcome to how to make wine from grapes sponsored by the gift of wine.com Step 1: Remove the grapes from the stalks Step 2: Press the grapes to remove all the juice Step 3: Measure the specific gravity of the juice Pour some juice through a sieve Pour the juice into a testing jar test to test the specific gravity using a hydrometer Twill tell you how much sugar is in the juice and how much you will need to add to get the required alcohol content There's more information on my website Step 4: Put the crushed grapes into a brewing bucket Step 5: Add one crushed Campden tablet per gallon of wine Step 6: Add the Campden tablet to the brewing bucket. The Campden tablet will kill any harmful bacteria that is on the grape skins Step 7: Cover the brewing bucket and leave for 24 hours for the bacteria to be killed Step 8: Make a yeast starter Pour some boiled water into a glass jar Place the jar into cool water and allow the boiled water to cool Add a tablespoon of sugar and stir until it is fully dissolved Then take a wine yeast and add to the sugar solution Cover to prevent bacteria getting into the yeast After about an hour or so the yeast will start reacting with the sugar producing alcohol Step 9: Dissolve sugar in boiling water The exact amount of sugar depends on the specific gravity measured earlier Stir the sugar until it is fully dissolved in the water. Allow to cool, then add to brewing bucket. Step 10: Add the yeast starter to the brewing bucket Step 11: Cover the brewing bucket and leave at room temperature This is called primary fermentation where the yeast reacts with the sugar to produce alcohol Step 12: Stir the bucket daily The grapes have risen to the top of the bucket. They need to be pressed below the surface every day and the mixture stirred. Step 13: After six days sterilize a second brewing bucket with a Campden tablet Step 14: Sterilize a piece of muslin cloth The cloth needs to be about 1 meter square Step 15: Empty the bucket and place the cloth over a sieve as shown Step 16: Pour the fermented wine from the first bucket through the cloth and through the sieve The cloth will capture all the grapes but let the juice pass through Step 17: Gather the cloth together and squeeze all the juice from the grapes try and get as much juice as you can Step 18: Measure the specific gravity a second time This will tell you how much sugar you need to add to get the required alcohol content Step 19: Dissolve the sugar in hot water and allow to cool before adding into the grape juice Step 20: Cleanse and sterilise demijohns using a Campden tablet Step 21: Syphon from the fermenting wine into the demijohns This stage of fermentation is called secondary fermentation it's less vigorous than the first stage in the bucket Step 22: Fit the airlocks and leave until fermentation has finished Airlocks prevent bacteria getting into the wine Step 23: Sterilize and clean your bottles the wine must not the transferred from the demijohns until all the fermentation is finished this could take up to several months step 24 siphon from the demijohns into the bottles when siphoning place the tube low down in the bottle below the level of the liquid this avoids getting bubbles and air into the wine which could introduce bacteria and spoil it step 25 cork the bottles Finally, drink and enjoy! For more information on wine making visit my website.

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Length: 9min 5sec (545 seconds)

Published: Mon Aug 01 2011