I would like to start making homemade wine. Does anyone have any good
recipes?

Thanks in advance....

On Jun 25, 10:05 am, "Bizy" wrote:
I would like to start making homemade wine. Does anyone have any good
recipes?

Thanks in advance....

Yup, take some grape juice, stick it in a jug with some wine yeast and
forget about it for a few months.

Actually it can be a little more complicated than that, but as long as
your equipment and sanitation is in order, recipes are very flexible.
I've taken apple juice and brown sugar and made a nice wine, welches
concentrates, even juice straight from the jugs on the supermarket
shelf. If you want a very straightforward approach with directions
though, you should buy a wine kit from the homebrew store or order it
online. One of my favorites is my pomegranate/blueberry wine:

Pom/Blue Wine

Yield: 1 gal
OG: 1.09
FG: .999
~ABV: 12%

1 gal (2 bottles) Natures Promise (stop and shop brand) Pom/Blueberry
juice
2 lbs Brown Sugar
1 tsp yeast nutrient
1 packet Lalvin k-1v or Red Star Champagne yeast

Dissolve the sugar in the juice, shake to aerate and pitch yeast
(rehydrated). Shake to mix. Affix airlock and store in relatively cool
place (consistant room temp is fine). When fermentation is done (no
more bubbles in jar, not nessasarily in airlock) rack to secondary.
Bulk age as long as possible for extra sediment to fall out of
suspension. Cold stabilize (stick it in the fridge) for a few days
before bottling, careful not to disturb the sediment when racking. Age
for six months to a year and enjoy.

If you drink this young, it will taste extreamly bitter and have a bad
alcohol burn. Wait. Wait. Wait. Learn to brew beer in the meantime,
trust me, it'll help. I drank this at six months and it could have
gone longer, but in that time it turned into a completely different
animal, a wine instead of alcoholic juice.

mike

I would also suggest - http://www.geocities.com/lumeisenman/

Lest we forget; thankyou for keeping that site up Lum. It is still an
excellent resource.

In article
PaulArthur wrote:


Try http://winemaking.jackkeller.net/



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I'll echo what Mike said. Especially the part about your equipment
being sanatized.

If yoiu start with a kit, (Price ranges from $60 to $300) it is a way
for you to become familiar with the process, in a contolled and
instructional way. Then venture into your own recipes. There are
thousands of sources for wines.

Now, I think I might try Mike's recipe for my next batch!!

Happy wine making!!

NashParrot