How do you make homemade wine?

Answer 1

Lots of good information on making wine at home is here:
http://winemaking.jackkeller.net/
http://www.homewinemaking.co.uk/

Answer 2

Quick and dirty way: Go to the store and buy a 4 Liter glass bottle and 1.5 Liter glass bottle of wine. Go home and drink all of the wine. After you sober up, wash empty bottles. Fill the 4 L bottle half full of any store bought fruit juice (100% juice, no preservatives, not sweetened). Add 4 cups sugar (through a funnel), 1 teaspoon of yeast nutrient, 1 teaspoon of acid blend,1/4 teaspoon of tannin (for light wines like apple or white grape, don't add for red grape). Fill the remained with hot water (like from the tap, doesn't have to be boiling, just warm to help dissolve the sugar). Now put the lit on and and shake to get the sugar off the bottom of the bottle. Do this every ten minutes until the sugar is completely dissolved. Wait until the mixture (called "the must") is about room temperature. Fill the 1.5 L bottle with the must you have just prepared. To the 1.5 L bottle add 1/4 of a crushed camden tablet, put the lid on and put in the fridge. Put a full crushed camden tablet in the larger bottle and swirl. Fit the large bottle with a pre-drilled rubber stopper and airlock (There needs to be water and a few drops of bleach in the airlock). Wait 24 hours, then add all purpose wine yeast to the larger bottle. The must should start fermenting in the next couple of days as indicated by foaming and CO2 coming out through the airlock. 2 days after the foaming stops, take the smaller bottle out of the fridge, warm to room temperature, and add to the larger bottle. When fermentation has stopped and the yeast has settled to the bottom and the wine is clear (months later), carefully siphon wine off the yeast into another 4 Liter bottle and drink or put in the fridge. This method is rather crude, but you can get more sophisticated and buy more equipment as you get more into the hobby. If you want to age or store the wine for any amount of time, the siphoning and bottling needs to be done under sterile conditions.

Answer 3

Fortunately, with the increased interest in everything related to wine, home winemaking has become a very popular hobby. New stores and online retailers specializing in home winemaking and home brewing supplies are increasingly common, and there are many books, periodicals, and websites now available for aspiring winemakers.

The actual process of winemaking is fairly straightforward. Traditional grape wines can be easily created, as well as those from fruits and even vegetables and grains. It is important to note that winemaking is not a hobby for those who are impatient. Homemade wines require months and sometimes years to reach their full drinking potential.

Before you begin to make your first batch of homemade wine, you will need to purchase the right equipment.

You will need:
Primary fermentation container
(4-gallon food grade quality heavy plastic container with lid)
Secondary fermentation containers (2 or 3 1-gallon glass jugs)
Bung
(rubber cork for the airlock to fit in, should fit into secondary fermentation container)
Airlock
Large nylon mesh straining bag
6 feet of clear plastic ½” tubing
5 wine bottles for one gallon of wine
Corks (size #9 fits standard wine bottles)
Hand corker
Hydrometer (measures sugar content)
Other items that are useful but not essential are:
Thermometer
Acid titration kit (measures acid level)
Grape press (essential if you are making wine from fresh grapes)
Thermometer
All of these items can be found at a winemaking supply store. While shopping for equipment, make sure to pick up the following specific ingredients that you will need to add to your wine:
Campden tablets
Wine yeast
Yeast nutrient
Pectic enzyme
Grape tannin
Acid blend

Answer 4

Well first you need a 5 gallon jug (water jug w/ the rubber stopper) and add fruit juice, sugar and wine yeast you can find this at www.morebeer.com under the wine section. mix together and shake well. Let it sit 2 to 4 weeks in your fridge (remember there's a little raised plastic stub you're suppost to cut out to help the flow, do that to let out co2. when wine is right (by sampling) pour into empty bottles (you can use old wine bottles w/ the screw lids or used 5th bottles and half gallon bottles) using a funnel and 2 to 3 coffee filters at the same time (to filter out yeast and floaties) and bottoms up, you made wine. Not that complicated man.

Answer 5

Put your end result through electrolysis to get a more "aged" flavor

Answer 6

try this

Answer 7

ummmmm.........start with grapes!