how to make wine at home?

Answer 1

My mom once made the most delicious wine this way. If yours turns out to be as good as hers you will be asked to host wine parties.
good Luck!

5 pounds [2.3 kg] beet
1 gallon [4.5 L] water
8 cups [2 L] sugar
1 cup [250 ml] rice
2 cups [500 ml raisin
1 pack [1 tablespoon / 15 ml] active dry yeast

Wash beets; remove stems and cut unpeeled beets into thin pieces. Cover with water; cook until tender. Drain and measure cooking liquid; add enough water to get 1 gallon [4.5 L] liquid Pour into a stoneware jar. Finely chop raisins; add raisins, sugar, rice and yeast into jar. Leave to ferment for 30 days; stir every day. Filter twice; leave to rest for 3 days.

Siphon into sterilized bottles. Seal. Age before drinking.

Answer 2

If you want red wine use grapes that give a nice dark colour when crushed well.
The regular red grapes will give you a rose colour wine.
For white wine use green grapes.
Wash the grapes and crush them lightly.
Boil water, allow it to cool a bit, 5 minutes maybe.Pour it into the crushed grapes, just enough to cover the grapes.Keep it like that for 24 hours.
Strain out the liquid.Squeeze the fruit to get all the juice that you can.
Add enough sugar to give you a slightly over-sweet taste.Less of the sweetness if you are using green grapes and you intend to make a white wine.But if you like a very sweet wine add a bit more sugar.
Warm very lightly a cup of the juice.
Depending on the quantity of juice add yeast.
1 teaspoon for every litre is fine.
(Since brewers yeast is not available in India, at shops, you will have to make do with easily available baker's yeast.)
Stir the yeast well and leave the juice in a warm place till the yeast activates(a bit of bubbles and frothing).
Pour the yeast mixture into the rest of the juice and stir well.
As an option you can add a few granules of urea as yeast food.(available from any fertiliser shop)
You will need a good container now.A 5 litre bottle or an old acid jar(20 litre)
Or buy a white HDPE jar.
Pour your wine mixture into the jar.
Make an airtight cover for the jar, with a length of tubing (a foot or so)coming out of it.]
The tubing should not be anywhere near the level of the fermenting liquid.
It is only for releasing the CO2 formed during fermentation.
It is very important that wild yeast in the atmosphere dont enter the jar.You need a fermentation trap for this purpose.
The simpleat one is to keep the open end of the tube immersed in water which has been sterlised by boiling.
The CO2 will escape as bubbles but no outside air will go in.
Keep the whole contraption in a dfark place where it will not be disturbed.
Check on it once in a while.Initially you will notice a conti nious release of CO2 which will decrease over time, till it will finally die down in a month or so.
Once this happens hold a lit torch behind the jar and check whether the sediments have started to settle.
It should happen in a month's time.
Carefully siphon out the wine into dry sterilised bottles(washed and heated in an oven)
Leave the bottles upright in a dark cool place.After a week or so more sediments will settle leaving a crystal clear wine.
You could decant the wine into a fresh set of bottles to avoid the settle sediments.
Now leave the wine to mature a bit to make it palatable.
Taste it once in a way to check the maturity.
Good luck &....................
Salut!!!!!!!!!

Answer 3

Here's how my father-in-law does it, the traditional method from his village in Italy:
1) Rinse off the grapes. If you have a lot, you can do it outside with a hose.
2) Crush the grapes. No, you don't have to do it with your feet. My father-in-law uses a machine he bought from a specialty shop.
3) Put the crushed grapes and the juice in a vat. A large plastic one, with a plywood cover and a valve on the bottom works nicely.
4) Let the grapes and the juice sit in the vat for about a week. They will ferment while they are sitting there. When you can see them start to bubble, they are ready.
5) Drain the juice from the first vat into a second vat.
6) Take the grapes out of the vat, and put them in a "squeezer". My father-in-law inherited his, but you can buy it in a specialty shop. Add the juice that comes out of the squeezer to the second vat.
7) Let the juice sit in the second vat, covered with plywood, for another week or so.
8) Put the juice from the second vat in a container suitable for aging. My father-in-law uses glass water cooler bottles, sealed with corks.
9) After 3 months or so, decant the wine from aging container into regular wine bottles, and drink away!

Answer 4

You can buy kits that will help get you stated. Once you get the hang of it, (might take a few batches to get the taste you want). Then you won't need the kit anymore. You will need a fair bit of space so you can store and pour the wine. Try these websites for kits www.winecellarsupply.com and www.homebrewers.com...

Answer 5

Get some sort of juice, usually grape. Sterilize some bottle. Put the juice in the bottle and add some yeast. Cap the bottle and keep it there for several days. Put the bottle somewhere safe in case the cork would pop.

Answer 6

-1 (96 oz.) orange juice
-1 (8 oz.) grape juice
-2 c. sugar
-1 pkg. yeast (approximately 1 tbsp.)
-1 lg. glass bottle
-1 balloon
-Tape strainer

Method-

1) Mix well in large container, put in large glass bottle.
2) Attach balloon on top and secure with tape so it won't leak.
3) Let set until balloon goes down. Let it sit to settle, then strain and bottle. Chill.
4) Tastes like Dago Red or Burgundy.
5) Takes 10 to 20 days.

ENJOY!!

Answer 7

Check this web-site you can find out recipes for a variety of wines ---- http://scorpius.spaceports.com/~goodwine/

Answer 8

wine s a specialised liquer to make at home.It needs to go through fermentation process.It may be made by putting grapes + some kind of liquid in pearl pet bottle n keep it untouched for about 22 days.See wat happens.WARNING-I myself havent tried.

Answer 9

Check these sites:

http://www.homewinemaking.co.uk
http://www.wineintro.com/making

Answer 10

buy a bottle frm shop and put it in the bottle which hav ur logo