Wine is done fermenting...what next?

Question

I put Welch's white grape juice, some yeast, and sugar in a container and covered it with a balloon, and I was deinflating when necessary. Now, 3 weeks later, it has stopped bubbling and balloon is no longer inflating with air. What are the best conditions to age the wine in? I have no airlocks, only balloons and the bottle cap. How long will the aging take? thanks so much.

haha thanks marvin, that's what I was thinking. does it even have to age? this isn't really fancy wine, it's made from the grocery store. should i just drink it?

Answer 1

Dude00, guess what, sometimes, the silliest ways of brewing produce the best results! Usually you use something like a balloon when you want some extra carbonation in your grape juice wine or whatever you are brewing! Do you have some plastic bottles (like pint sized beer bottles with plastic caps that you can rack your wine into?). If not, get some. Also, get some dextrose sugar and fill each plastic bottle with 2 teaspoons of dextrose and then rack (fill each bottle with your wine) them. After the 3 weeks you mention above, hopefully the yeast has slowed down enough that the bottles do not foam up when you fill them. If they do, fill a bucket with water that you can dip them into after capping them when you fill them so they are not sticky. I use a 7 gallon carboy and it usually fills 48 to 54 of these pint sized bottles. After you fill and cap them and shake them with the 2 teaspoons of dextrose, leave them fo 2 to 3 weeks if you can and you will have wonderful champagne like wine that clears itself and taste better than liquor store wine!

Answer 2

you can use a food grade bag find one big enough pour in it wine seal the top so no air can get in and put it in a cool dark place for 5 to 6 weeks or pour wine into 2ltr pop bottles screw the cap on tight and let it sit for 6 weeks or until it is clear put it in the fridge for 12 hours then bottoms up. sounds good to drink i have made some great drinkable stuff with nothing more than fruit juice and a pickle jar. and i have used the bag method it works when you have nothing else

Answer 3

Transfer it into another container to get it off the sediment. DO NOT POUR IT!! Let it sit another month and transfer it again and let age for a few months.

Answer 4

screw aging it, it's time to bottle and filter. Take bottles w/ screw caps and a plastic funnel w/ 2 to 3 coffee filters at one time to filter out left over yeast and floaties.

Answer 5

Ok...I am calling the warden.

Clean up in cell block 3!

Answer 6

dude, you're my hero.

are you actually gonna drink that?


sounds like the applejack my older brother and I made when we were kids, and it made us both so sick there was no way of hiding the fact that we were completely loaded from our mom and dad.

let me know how it goes...

Answer 7

Drink it.