Step by Step guide to make wine at home from grapes. I have just sampled my first bottle after leaving it to mature for 10 months. It is the best wine that I have ever made. (Independently confirmed by my wife!)
Hello and welcome to how to make wine from grapes sponsored by the gift of wine.com Step 1: Remove the grapes from the stalks Step 2: Press the grapes to remove all the juice Step 3: Measure the specific gravity of the juice Pour some juice through a sieve
Pour the juice into a testing jar test to test the specific gravity using a hydrometer Twill tell you how much sugar is in the juice and how much you will need to add to get the required alcohol content There’s more information on my website
Step 4: Put the crushed grapes into a brewing bucket Step 5: Add one crushed Campden tablet per gallon of wine Step 6: Add the Campden tablet to the brewing bucket. The Campden tablet will kill any harmful bacteria that is on the grape skins
Step 7: Cover the brewing bucket and leave for 24 hours for the bacteria to be killed Step 8: Make a yeast starter Pour some boiled water into a glass jar Place the jar into cool water and allow the boiled water to cool
Add a tablespoon of sugar and stir until it is fully dissolved Then take a wine yeast and add to the sugar solution Cover to prevent bacteria getting into the yeast After about an hour or so the yeast will start reacting with the sugar producing alcohol
Step 9: Dissolve sugar in boiling water The exact amount of sugar depends on the specific gravity measured earlier Stir the sugar until it is fully dissolved in the water. Allow to cool, then add to brewing bucket. Step 10: Add the yeast starter to the brewing bucket
Step 11: Cover the brewing bucket and leave at room temperature This is called primary fermentation where the yeast reacts with the sugar to produce alcohol Step 12: Stir the bucket daily
The grapes have risen to the top of the bucket. They need to be pressed below the surface every day and the mixture stirred. Step 13: After six days sterilize a second brewing bucket with a Campden tablet Step 14: Sterilize a piece of muslin cloth The cloth needs to be about 1 meter square
Step 15: Empty the bucket and place the cloth over a sieve as shown Step 16: Pour the fermented wine from the first bucket through the cloth and through the sieve The cloth will capture all the grapes but let the juice pass through
Step 17: Gather the cloth together and squeeze all the juice from the grapes try and get as much juice as you can Step 18: Measure the specific gravity a second time This will tell you how much sugar you need to add to get the required alcohol content
Step 19: Dissolve the sugar in hot water and allow to cool before adding into the grape juice Step 20: Cleanse and sterilise demijohns using a Campden tablet Step 21: Syphon from the fermenting wine into the demijohns
This stage of fermentation is called secondary fermentation it’s less vigorous than the first stage in the bucket Step 22: Fit the airlocks and leave until fermentation has finished Airlocks prevent bacteria getting into the wine Step 23: Sterilize and clean your bottles
The wine must not the transferred from the demijohns until all the fermentation is finished this could take up to several months step 24 siphon from the demijohns into the bottles when siphoning place the tube low down in the bottle below the level of the
Liquid this avoids getting bubbles and air into the wine which could introduce bacteria and spoil it step 25 cork the bottles Finally, drink and enjoy! For more information on wine making visit my website.
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Step 18 and Step 19 need to be done before the primary fermentation starts, don't they? One also needs to do the measure at the end of fermentation, right? On your website, you mention the following:
There are basically 4 times you would measure the sugar content:
At the start of your fermentation you measure the amount of sugar naturally occurring in the juice or must.
To determine how much extra sugar you need to add to the juice to produce a wine of the desired alcohol content
To check the progress of the wine during fermentation.
To make a final check on the strength of the finished wine.
Life is too short to drink bad wine
I followed your video above and have reached secondary fermentation. When I siphoned to the demijohn, I think I left too many solids behind ( i thought it would be good to leave the solids at the bottom of the jar, but I think I left a lot of my yeast behind). My air lock bubbled at about 1 bubble/ minute or less. It has now stopped (2 months). When I do a taste test, if it's not "to" sweet, is it done?
Who else here is muslim and wants to make grape juice and trying not to avcidently make wine. OR WHO HERE IS MUSLIM AND IS WATCHING PEOPLE MAKE WINE FOR NO REASON.
Hiii sir your wine video is supper👌🏻.., i have some doubt, i have 6 kg grapes so how much, water, sugar, yeast,add help me sir please
Is it possible after filtering out the primary fermentation into the secondary bucket to leave it in there for the secondary fermentation (instead of the demijon)??thanks for the video!
Can i use normal yeast
I'M GONNA CRUSH SOME GRAPES AND ADD YEAST WITH AN AIRFLOW 'THING' AND WAIT 2 WEEKS, I'LL EITHER GET SICK AND GO TO THE 'EMERGE' OR GET NICELY BUZZED WITH A COUPLE OF MEDIUM SIZED MARIJUANA CIG'RETS FOR TASTE!!!
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NO SUGAR BABY.
NEXT 'EAR' I'LL FOLLOW INSTRUCTION WHEN I GET ALL THE STUFF REQUIRED, MAKE LOVE AND DRINK WINE INSTEAD OF WAR, WAR, WAR!!! I GOT MY OWN GREEN/CONCORD GRAPES ON VINES.
Brilliant, thank you!
You literally explained nothing. Just step 123456 ect. I think im going to delete youtube know. The sites not what it was.
I'm making wine for the first time. The only part I don't understand is how you know how much sugar to dissolve in the water due to the specific gravity. My specific gravity is 135 grams, so how much sugar should I put in?
For the brewing bucket, does it have to have hole drilled in for the airlock?
Where is the juice removed first?
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I love your pilot voice because it's the most soothing sound in the world when the pilot speaks to passengers 😂
Very interesting video, this year I also published a video in which I show traditional homemade wine as our grandfathers from Bulgaria made it. I will ask you to add subtitles so that people who don't speak your language can understand, I always add.
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you know what, nevermind. this is too complicated a process
That metal on metal sound is torture to my ears.
Fuck
Mate. This ain’t prison hooch.
ur supposed to stomp them ur wonr u slut
So much fer crushing a bunch of grapes with some yeast and leaving it on the counter rofl
Thank you so much for sharing. I was wondering how long you can leave wine in a demijohn. Thanks
I feel like an archeologist right now
Just now saw this video after years of making wine from backyard grapes. Good to know that the technics have not changed much except, we all understand that everything needs to be cleaned and sanitized even more!
Our grandfathers did not use artificial yeast but used the natural yeast that lives on the skin of the grape seeds. Here is a link to my video with subtitles in all popular languages.
https://youtu.be/19ZacdnLmAA
very nice i wish i could get the print out thanks
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I'm just going to let the birds have the grapes
i am new to this , is the sugar and water 1:1 ratio ? and how do you know how much water is required for the amount of grapes ?
After several times making my own wine home I used this method and it worked very well
What exact grape variety did you use for this wine?
pouring wine like that will oxidize it so much. smh.
I think I would have to go to wine school to get it done with a teachers help. If I did it on my own, last time I tried to make wine it was no mericle.
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Question, when you sterilised your bottles or Demi john , do you rinse them with water afterwards or are they ok to use dry? I have a bit of an after taste that am worried about. Thanks