How to make wine?

Answer 1

In Japan they have kits to make plum wine. You pretty much just put in some green plums into a jar and some sugar and white liquor. You then seal it in a jar and let it sit for a couple years. We have some very strong plum wine at home that's been sitting for nearly 8 years. It's very good on the rocks and strong.

The web site has a link showing how to do it. Our kit looks a lot like the one pictured.

Answer 2

The basic steps to making a drinkable alcoholic beverage:

The easy way:

Buy a 5 gallon / 23 liter bucket of grape juice. ($25.- to $50.-)
Do not open.
Leave it in a spot between 70°F / 20°C and 80°F / 30°C for a month or two.
The warmer the faster she goes.

Open it without shaking it.

Siphon off the contents, into gallon jugs with screw-lids or 2 liter coke bottles, leaving most of the sediment on the bottom of the bucket.

Drink the stuff.

Optionally you can siphon the bucket into another almost airtight container and let it sit for another month or three before "bottling". This is especially a good idea if the juice is still murky.

This process is best suited for soonest enjoyment.
If you really gotta get fancy and just have to "bottle" with real corks, make sure you store the bottles in a place cooler than 60°F / 15°C or you may find the corks everywhere except in the bottles when next you thirst for a cool glass.

Applicable hints: Those plastic buckets can be harder to open than Fort Knox unless you have a special tool. If you cut a hole in the lid with a knife, it's hard to see what you're doing when you're siphoning, but it works, without shaking up all the sediment. Of course you ruin the lid but maybe you know a supermarket or a restaurant where you can get an endless supply of those buckets. Duct tape or packing tape may also make the lid of some use again.

Tie the siphoning tube to a long wooden stick, with two or three rubber-bands, an inch or two off the end of the stick. That way you can shove the stick to the bottom, leaving the siphon tube high enough not to suck up a lot of sediment.

Take those books on wine-making and wine-appreciation, that you bought a few years back, and use them to block up one side of the bucket a couple of inches and stick the siphoning hose in the deep part of the bucket.

Answer 3

If you want to make wine at home i suggest that you start with a wine making kit, this is the best way to ensure success. this is wine made from concentrated grape juice. also get the book the encyclopedia of wine making and do some reading this will really help you to under stand the process.

but the basics of making wine is that once the grapes are harvested they are crushed and pressed the juice is then fermented on the skins for red wine and off the skins for white wine. to start the fermentation yeast is added to the juice then after any where for 5 to 14 days the fermentation will stop and the aging process will begin. then any where from 10 to 24 months later you have a wine to bottle and drink.

Answer 4

You can use fruit and/or flowers to make wine. The process involves fermenting the fruit with yeast and sugar in a jar that is called a demi-jon that straining it off and let it ferment further. It can take six months and more.

Answer 5

1) take grapes
2) put in container and crush them - you can use your feet.
3) add yeast - optional, if the grapes haven't been sprayed they should have natural yeast.
4) when wine stops fermenting pour wine, leaving skins behind, drink or put into a bottle and seal it to drink later.

That is the basics.

Answer 6

Why bother. There's so much cheap stuff at Tesco.

Answer 7

Come to France we will teach you.

Answer 8

put water in a jug and pray to jesus?

Answer 9

with grapes

Answer 10

just like homebrew