When choosing grapes, try to pick some ripe grapes, even if they are a loose one, it doesn't matter. These grapes are easy to ferment for one thing, and the price point is relatively low for another. Commonly, grapes, raisins, and marmite are all used to make wine.
● Step 2: Wash the grapes
Since the skin of the grapes is likely to have pesticide residues, the cleaning of the grapes is quite important, and it is best to be able to wash them one by one, and then rinse them repeatedly with tap water, while removing the rotten grapes. Some people like to remove the skin of the grapes after the wine, which is not bad, but less some of the unique nutrition of the skin of the grapes.
Mom's exclusive secret: put some flour in the basin when washing grapes, and then start shaking, the flour added to the water becomes sticky, even the grapes on the most tiny not easy to clean the place are easy to take care of Oh! After shaking for a while, you can see the bottom of the basin is a little dirty, and then look at the little grapes, absolutely all clean!
● Step 3: Dry the grapes
Spread the grapes one by one in a leaky container, and wait for the surface of the grapes to be completely free of water droplets. If you don't mind the trouble, find a clean, soft cloth and wipe them one by one to ensure that the final wine will not have a sour taste. My mom spends an entire afternoon + evening (depending on the amount of grapes) every year sitting on the floor wiping the grapes one by one, and she looks so focused!
● Step 4: Choose a container
Wine jars can be ceramic jars or glass bottles, but never advocate the use of plastic containers, because the plastic is likely to have a chemical reaction with the alcohol and produce some toxic substances, harmful to human health. After the container is washed and cleaned, it must be dried yo, thoroughly dry yo! Otherwise your wine will also be sour.
● Step 5: pinch the grapes and put them into the container
After washing your hands, gently pinch the grapes to open a small mouth, in fact, the grapes peeled off from the tip of the grapes when there is a small crack, all we have to do is to gently pinch the grapes again along this mouth, in order to let the grapes fully fermented. Once the grapes are pinched and broken, a layer of grapes is spread inside the container and a layer of sugar is sprinkled on top, allowing it to fully soak into the grapes. The ratio of grapes and sugar is 10:3, that is, 10 pounds of grapes 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). Mom's secret: icing sugar has a better taste than white sugar, yo!
● Step 6: Seal and store
Seal the wine jar, if it is a ceramic jar, you can go to the store where you bought the yellow wine to order wine clay, 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 cover tight plastic book film. 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. Do not be greedy before sealing the grapes piled full, be sure to leave about 5cm of space, or wait until the fermentation expansion of the day you start to prepare to clean up the house - fermentation spewed out of the stuff will splash all over the house, ho ho!
● Step 7: Unsealing
When it's hot, it takes about 20 days to a month for the grapes to ferment, and now, at this time of year, it takes about 40 days to make wine. Mom says that basically, when you can no longer hear the sound of "flopping", it means that your homebrew is done. After opening the bottle, strain the skins through two layers of gauze and drink the wine. Note that if you like your wine a little stronger, just delay the opening. After opening the bottle, 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 other different ways to share with you:
●Buy good grapes, the more purple the color of the grapes, the better, and the grains should be big. After washing the grapes, you can use gauze or a clean towel to dry the grapes, put a layer of sugar at the bottom of the dried glass bottle, then a layer of sugar and a layer of grapes, fill it up and seal it, and then pour a circle of 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 wine will have a nice color.
●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, with the cap left on, and the wine will be ready to consume after 5 days.
●Cut each grape in half and put it into the wine jar, add sugar and seal it, the wine after 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 following the above "process".