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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.
Wine
Making by Marilyn Hageman
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The first
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
fermentation 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. 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.
Wine
Age Acceleration
Makers of wine aging acceleration devices claim they can
convert
cheap table wines to well-aged, smooth tasting premium
vintages
using powerful Neodymium magnets -- replicating the
Earth´s
magnetic field -- that naturally accelerate the aging process in
beverages. The longer the wine is exposed to the magnets, the
better it gets. Try a taste test with wines of the same vintage and
compare with a slow-aged bottle. Aging
Accelerator.
Winemaking
Defined
Winemaking, or vinification, is the production of wine, starting with
selection of the grapes or other produce and ending with bottling the
finished wine. Although most wine is made from grapes, it may also be
made from other fruit or non-toxic plant material. Mead is a wine that
is made with honey being the primary ingredient after water. The
science of wine and winemaking is known as oenology (in American
English, enology). Wikipedia
Winemaking
Resources
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5 Gallon Glass
Carboy
Claret Bottles
Chardonnay and Friends
Varietal
Wines of British Columbia
Educating Peter
Grapes
Wine Making
Equipment Kit
Aging Accelarator
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How to make wine - crush your own!
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