Introduction: Do you know how to make homemade wine at home? Wine made at home is certainly cheaper than the high-priced wine on the market, but if it is not made properly it is undrinkable.
How to make homemade wine?
How do you buy grapes for wine?
Do you know how to make homemade wine? Wine made at home is certainly cheaper than the high-priced wine on the market, but if it is not made properly it is undrinkable. So, how do you make it? I'll tell you how to make homemade wine at home.
First, the home brewing method of homemade wine
1. Buy grapes
When you buy grapes, you can pick some ripe grapes, even if it is a scattered grapes does not matter. These grapes are easy to ferment for one thing, and the price point is relatively low for another. Common grapes, raisins, and horse milk
are all used to make wine.
2. Wash the grapes
As the skin of the grapes is likely to be residual pesticides, the cleaning of the grapes is quite important, it is best to be able to wash them one by one, and then rinse them again and again with tap water, and at the same time remove the rotten grapes. Some clean people, like to remove the skin of the grapes after brewing, which is not bad, but less some of the unique nutrition of the skin of the grapes.
3. Dry the grapes
The grapes in the water leakage container, and so on the surface of the grapes no beads of water can be added to the sugar.
4. Choose the container
Wine jar can be ceramic jar, can also be glass bottles, but do not advocate the use of plastic containers, because the plastic is likely to be with the alcohol chemical reaction, and produce some toxic substances, harmful to human health.
5. pinch the grapes into the container
After washing your hands, pour the sugar into the grapes, pinch the grapes with your hands, the operation is to grab a handful of grapes to make a strong grip, pinch the grapes to break the grapes, so that the sugar is fully immersed in the grapes. Then put into the wine altar (the kind of wine bottle used to make medicinal wine is also OK). The ratio of grapes and sugar is 10:3, that is, 10 pounds of grapes to put 3 pounds of sugar (do not like to eat sweet friends, you can put 2 pounds of sugar, but not without sugar, because sugar is an important factor in the fermentation of grapes).
6. sealing preservation
The wine jar sealed, if it is a ceramic jar, you can buy yellow wine store to point wine mud, add water and paste the seal. If it is a wine bottle of medicinal wine, pay attention to the cap tightly, and then in the cap of the bottle at the tight plastic book cover. After sealing, the wine altar (bottle) need to be placed in a cool place to save, usually do not feel free to turn or open the lid.
7. Unsealing
When it is hot, the fermentation time of the grapes takes about 20 days to a month, and now in this season to make wine, the fermentation time takes about 40 days. After unsealing, use two layers of gauze to filter the grape skins floating on top, and then you can drink the wine directly.
Note that if you like your wine a little stronger, just delay the opening. After unsealing, don't forget to put the lid on the wine jar every time you ladle out the wine so that the flavor doesn't evaporate. There are also some different notes to share with you: buy good grapes, the more purple the color of the grapes, the better, and the grains should be large. After washing the grapes, use gauze or a clean towel to dry the grapes, put a layer of white sugar at the bottom of the dried glass bottle, then a layer of white sugar and a layer of grapes, fill it up and seal it, and then pour a circle of white sugar over the seal, and then put the bottle under the sun, and then you will be able to enjoy the delicious wines in a month. The wine jar should be placed in a dark and humid place for more than 3 months, so that the wine flavor is more mellow. Also, use red grapes for the wine so that the color of the wine will be beautiful. As soon as you see the grapes floating in the bottle, the wine is ready. After the grapes have fermented for 3 days, take the grapes out and mash them, then put them back into the bottle to ferment, the cap doesn't need to be tightened, and the wine will be ready to be consumed after 5 days. Cut each grape into two halves and put them into the wine jar, add sugar and seal it. Wine that has gone through half a month of fermentation tastes very good In the process of making wine, you can replace white sugar with brown sugar or rock sugar. You can also replace the grapes with apples or oranges to make "apple wine" or "orange wine" by referring to the above "process".
Second, how to buy grapes
1. Select varieties: a wide range of types of grapes, the choice is dazzling, how to choose different varieties? The key is to see when you buy grapes, in now, that is, in July and August, a large number of grapes off the shelf more, giant peak, red, rose incense are picking time, you can choose these kinds of; green mention although now is also a large number of listed, but taste on the poorer, sweetness is low, as little as possible to buy; no son of the dew to eat the taste of sweetness, but also now listed more varieties, some people like to eat sweet can be purchased. Giant rose listed less, the taste is not the best time, try to buy. The following pictures are in order: red, no son dew, rose, giant rose.
2. Pick the tightness of the grapes: generally the more the grapes grow tightly the more nutritious, if not enough nutrients they will grow loose. However, red grapes are much looser than other varieties of grapes, so when you compare the tightness of the grapes, be careful to compare the same kind of don't, don't take red and rose to compare.
3. Pick full grains: of course, it is not that the larger the grains the better, because I personally think that small grains of rosé is much better than large grains of ping-pong grapes. However, the bigger the grapes on the same bunch, the better they taste, so pick grapes with more big grains on the same bunch.
4. Pick fresh grapes: Various varieties of grapes have a **** the same characteristic is that the fresher they are, the better they taste. How to pick fresh grapes? Fresh grapes have some characteristics: ① fresh grapes have a layer of white surface. Fresh grapes have a white layer of frost on the surface, with a hand touch will fall, so there is no white frost of the grapes may be picked and picked the rest of the white frost are off. There is also the green skin of the grapes can not see the white frost, this method does not apply. ② fresh grapes fruit stalks hard, fruit stalks and grains of fruit between the more solid, stock long time common lifting fruit stalks grains on the shaky;
5. weigh spike weight: this is also a common method of selecting grapes, two bunches of grapes the more heavy bunches of grapes on the more delicious. But it is not possible to compare between different varieties.
6. Choose the grapes that suit your taste: the taste of grapes is mainly related to its varieties and whether ripe, for the general ripe better grapes, Jumbo belongs to the sweet and sour mouth, some people accidentally buy not yet ripe Jumbo will be sour off the teeth; Red Tee is also sweet and sour mouth, more than the Jumbo, Red Tee and some more sweet, like to eat sweet people may be more to buy Red Tee; rose fragrant Thick skin, son more, eat up to the old spit skin, taste sweet and sour, acidity and sweetness moderate, is my favorite to eat; Green Tee acidity and sweetness are relatively low, I do not like; no son dew no acid, are sweet mouth, characterized by no son, eat more pain, personally just do not like him without a little sour taste.
7. Identification of rotten grapes: many times the supermarket sells grapes are installed in the packaging, such as plastic wrap wrapped, it is more difficult to identify grapes are not bad. However, through the plastic wrap we can also tug the grains, look at the fruit stalks and grains between the fruit is not solid, a tug on the drop may be part of the fruit stalks began to rot; in addition, you can smell, the beginning of the rot of the grapes will produce the flavor of alcohol.