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Make
Wine
Not long ago, if you wanted to create your own bottle of succulent red or crisp white wine you would need
to buy a vineyard in Tuscany or the Napa Valley. With the wide availability
of grapes, equipment and winemaking information available today, all you need is a few hundreds dollars, some space,
and a little spare time.
The basics of winemaking are pretty simple: crush some grape into juice, ferment the juice, strain it, store it, and bottle it.
Grapes are available year-round, and winemaking supply stores even sell
bottled grape juice made specially for making wine at home. The other ingredients are sugar and yeast.
The basic equipment
for winemaking consist of a glass wine carboy, a cork, and a glass tube.
The fiirst step in the process is desteming the grapes in order to have
a clean fruit. Then you are ready to crush the grapes. You can march
around barefoot in a vat filled with the grapes, if you like, or use a
juice extractor. The objective is to separate the skins, seeds, the
pulp of the grapes.
Mix the extracted grape juice with sugar and yeast. Pour the
ingredients into a carboy and wait for about 6 weeks for the
fermintation process do the job.
Zymurgy
Zymurgy (or zymology) is the study of fermentation. The word was
originally used to describe the science involved in these processes but
it has since become more broadly used to describe the brewing of
alcoholic beverages. A zymurgist (or zymologist) is one who studies
zymurgy.
Red Winemaking
The first step in making a red wine is to have the grapes perfectly
ready to be picked. They need to be picked not only at the proper time
in their life cycle, but also at the right time of day to ensure the
acids and sugars are all at the right balance for the wine. Click here.
Brewing Cheap Wine
As the title says, this is cheap wine. This hobo-wine is certainly not for connoisseurs. This is more
For those who do not expect quality, but want to try an enjoyable,
cheap, and easy educational project, this instructional page on wikiHow
explains how to make an inexpensive wine at home. All you need is some
unconcentrated varietal grape juice, basic winekeeping equipment and an
undiscriminating palate. Click here.
Winemaking Resources
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5 Gallon Glass Carboy
Zymurgy
Chardonnay and Friends
Varietal Wines of British Columbia
Educating Peter
Grapes
Wine Making Equipment Kit
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