I'd like to start making my own home-made wine?

Question

Have any of you a recipe for a simple beginners wine that comes out well? I have no equipment either so you'll need to tell me what I need and where to get it.

Ta

Answer 1

Don't waste your time. It impossble to re-create something that takes great skill and many months to produce in reality. First you have to accept that homemade wine will always taste like homemade wine. If you drink shop bought wine you will never adjust to homemade. I remember homemade wine that my auntie made when I was a kid. It was great because I was comparing it with nothing else and was my first taste of alcohol. I tried to make it and found it a tediously boring process and a complete false economy. The result is always disappointing, so please take my advice and enjoy the variety we now have at under a fiver. For the cost of setting up you could buy a case of quality wine, think about it.............???

Answer 2

Hi,

You'll never look back, great idea !!

Go to your local wine making equipment shop. They are normally very helpful ( if a tad tipsy) and set ypu up with the right equipment as well as recommend kits.

something like: demijons ( 2 min - about £5.50 each)) syphon (£4), funnel(£2), sterilising tablets ( camden) £2, corks £4, corking machine £12, heat tray ( not essential but it gives more consistant results - about £25)

You'd be best starting with kits, some are excellent and you'll learn about the process, hygiene, equipment without having to worry about the ph, sugar, alchohol etc, the kit is carefully prepared to take this into account for you.

Some of the recipies given to you here are a mixed bunch, some grape, some fruit. I would visit the brew shop before deciding what to do, but a kit will give good results to start with and encourage you. The brew shop will also have a range of books full of recipies. You'll never look at a tin of pineapple in sainsabury's in the same light - you'll think "what a waste to eat that, it could be 6 bottles of wine"

brewgenie are on the internet http://www.brewgenie.co.uk and based in Shrewsbury, most towns have a brew shop, look under "home brewing"

ahi.... must have had some bad expereinces, you will always find some people who are rubbish at a hobby, don't let it put you off.

My Merlot compares well to a top bottle in blind tastes, and it costs me 40p to make, go think about that next time you part with £20 for a decent bottle. My Barley, Wheat, pineapple, plum, tangerine, apple, Zinfandel etc all come out well in blind tastes often coming top.

Answer 3

Making your own homemade wine is a simple process and the following is just a basic recipe. The hardest part of it, is waiting for nature to take its course. When making wine at home, there are a few items you will need before you begin:

1. 1 Quart of fruit
2. 2 Cups of sugar
3. 1 Package of yeast
4. 1 Gallon of water
5. a Colander
6. a cheesecloth
7. a gallon jug or container

Directions:- First, you need to get 1 quart of fresh fruit. Any type of fruit will work, whatever you prefer. Crush and blend the fruit together.

Second, dissolve your cups of sugar in 1 cup of hot water, mixing it thoroughly.
Third, in two cups of warm water, dissolve the yeast. The yeast will foam a little bit; this will help to let you know your mixing it right.

Fourth, add you mixture of cooled sugar-water to the fruit.

Fifth, add the yeast. You need to make sure that your mixture is fairly cool, or the yeast won’t work.

Sixth, finish filling jug with remaining water. Seventh, cover and place in a dark spot where no sunshine will reach your container.

After two or three weeks, you will need to strain the mixture through colander. Some people prefer to do it through filters to make sure the wine isn’t lumpy.

Pour your bouquet into containers and let it sit for a few weeks to age. It’s not necessary to age your wine, but it will have a slightly strange taste to it if you don’t.

That’s all you need to do, to make your own wine. You can make any type you want; all you have to do is use your imagination.

Answer 4

I had a friend that just used 5 gallon water bottles the kind that go on a water cooler and you can buy the fixtures for the top at wine making places that allow you to see how your wine is doing and then all you need is grapes and sugar, they used wild grapes it was really good but potent stuff. its pretty easy kinda like at the link below but you can use the plastic ones and just order the secondary fermenter and the other things you will need

Answer 5

I've seen simple diy brew kits in Sainsburys that might be good to start with. There's also Home brew shops in Sheffield so look in yellow pages for wherever you are. Tell me when it's ready, I'm very good at sampling though there might not be much left.

Answer 6

Homemade Wine

INGREDIENTS
1 (.25 ounce) package active dry yeast
4 cups sugar
1 (12 fluid ounce) can frozen juice concentrate - any flavor except citrus, thawed
3 1/2 quarts cold water, or as needed
DIRECTIONS
Combine the yeast, sugar and juice concentrate in a gallon jug. Fill the jug the rest of the way with cold water. Rinse out a large balloon, and fit it over the opening of the jug. Secure the balloon with a rubber band.
Place jug in a cool dark place. Within a day you will notice the balloon starting to expand. As the sugar turns to alcohol the gasses released will fill up the balloon. When the balloon is deflated back to size the wine is ready to drink. It takes about 6 weeks total.

Wild Grape Wine

wild grapes
sugar
water
yeast
1 slice dried bread

Choose ripe Wild Grapes, Pick them in clusters on the stems, bring them home and wash them in cold water leaving them on the stems.
Place grapes with stems on, in water just to cover, in an enamel or non metalic kettle.
Bring just to a boil, simmer till skins on the grapes pop, Mash the grapes in the water, Strain juice into a non- metalic container, through several layers of cheeze cloth or a clean dish towel to remove grape pulp, seeds and stems.
Reserve the juice, Throw away stems and pulp.
Measure the juice.
Add equal amounts of sugar and water, (ae: 1 gal juice, 1 gal sugar, 1 gal water) put wine mixture in clean crock.
spread or sprinkle 1 cake or one pkg dry yeast on dry bread crust and allow it to float on top of the wine mixture, cover crock with a clean dish towel, let ferment for 3 days, strain wine, into non metalic container such as an enamel canner kettle, wash the crock and be sure to rinse it very well, put wine back into the crock, allow to ferment for 4 days, stirring every day and skimming the foam from top, strain the wine again as before, wash the crock again, put wine back in the crock.
allow to ferment 4 days, stirring and skimming every day.
Strain the wine once more, this time it is ready to bottle.
The older it gets the better.

Balloon Wine

6 cups sugar
1 package yeast
1 quart unsweetened grape juice or other unsweetened juice
12 raisins

Mix juice, sugar, yeast and raisins in a 1-gallon small mouth glass jar.
Fill to neck of jar with water and mix well.
Place a large balloon over opening of jar and secure with a rubber band.
Put the jar with mixture in a place where it won't have to be moved.
Let stand about 6 weeks.
After 6 weeks is over, wine may be strained and bottled.
Enjoy!

Easy homemade wine

13 (32 ounce) bottles white grape juice
1 1/2 gallons filtered water
7 1/2 cups sugar
1 package yeast

Pour grape juice into 5-gallon container.
Bring water and sugar to a boil until sugar is melted.
Let cool.
Pour into container.
Add 1 pkg yeast (activating beforehand is optional).
Close with airlock stopper.
Allow to ferment for 3 weeks in a sanitized 5-gallon container.
After 1 additional week, bottle.

Balloon Wine

1 (2 1/2 ounce) package active dry yeast
4 cups sugar
1 (12 ounce) can frozen juice concentrate, without sweeteners
3 1/2 quarts cold water

You will also need: 1 gallon glass jug (I guess you can use plastic, but I never did); 1 extra large latex balloon and a sturdy rubber band; 1-2 empty wine bottles or bottles of choice.
Combine the yeast, sugar and juice in a gallon jug.
Fill the jug the rest of the way with cold water.
Rinse out the balloon, and fit it over the opening of the jug.
Secure the balloon with a rubber band.
Place jug in a cool dark place.
Within a day you will notice the balloon starting to expand.
As the sugar turns to alcohol, the released gas will fill up the balloon.
When the balloon is deflated, the wine is ready to drink.
It takes about 6-weeks total.
Carefully pour wine into empty bottles without disturbing the sediment.
Discard the sediment.
Cork and tape the bottles closed.
The wine can be drunk now or aged, bottles on their side, for a year if you like.
But the younger it is, the yeastier it'll taste.

Answer 7

Check out this web site...
http://winemaking.jackkeller.net

Answer 8

Try www.iwine.com I did learn a lot there, and I'm making my own

Answer 9

Dont have a recipe but let us know when you do.

Answer 10

Please, please, PLEASE don't bother! The world is full of great, inexpensive wine made by people who knwo what they are doing. All you'll end up with for all your time, effort and money is some mediocre-at-best plonk, and friends politely telling you that it doesn't really suck all that much....