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daussaulit
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The Home Wine Making Thread *Bottled!!!*

#4902862 - 11/06/05 11:52 PM (20 years, 6 months ago)

So let’s face it guys, wine is popular, and there are many dishes that call for cooking with wine. Of course your suppose to use a wine that you would drink, and you could plop down $5-$10 for a bottle of wine that your not really going to fully enjoy by itself anyways, so make it yourself.

So today, if you want to make wine for the home, it comes in a box with everything you need minus the equipment.

This box costs about $90 at a homebrew store, but this one was $55 at wholesale price. This is a 2005 Australian Chardonnay.

Wine making is nothing compared to homebrewing. A tard could make decent wine without any sort of prior skill or knowledge. Must and a small zip lock bag with ingredients and instructions.

Everything you need is included, benotite, yeast, oak chips(if applicable),sulphite, isinglass, and potassium sorbate.

Here's my fermentation vessel. Sanitized and filled with 4 litres of RO water and the pack of benotite as per instructions. After that you just dump in the bag of must. What I think is the hardest part to wine making is getting the cap off the bag and getting it into a carboy without spilling any.

Here's the oak chip infusion bag, steep with 1 cup hot water for 10 minutes and dump it in. Simple, simple, simple.

This yeast pack(above) that came in the kit is probably some sort of generic champagne yeast. While that yeast might produce a fair quality wine, I went with yeast for fermenting white wines. You could easily go with a White Labs or Wyeast pitchable yeast. I'm pitching extra yeast for a quick and clean fermentation.

Now you want to take a gravity reading so you can measure the alcohol content. Looks like a 1.102 at 70F. So SG: 1.103.

Here's something I never understood. The instructions have a prejudice against using plastic buckets and would rather you use a glass carboy. How are you suppose to get the oak chips into the fermenter? The glass carboy has a smaller opening than this one. So thats it, let it ferment out, and I'll post more pics when the next steps are at hand.

The best thing about wine is that even if its crappy, you'll always have a perfect excuse, the one that the pros use. Just say these few words and harsh criticisms stop coming: "it was a bad year". So now you won't feel any guilt if your wine comes out crappy.

11/20 Update:

The gravity has dropped below 1.010. So it is now the time for the second step.

I'm going to transfer into this bucket. I'm out of carboys at the moment, but this will do fine. After the first 24 hours of fermentation, it is a bad idea to get the beverage exposed to oxygen, so I've purged the bucket using CO2.

Transferring to secondary....

This is what is left behind, the "lees". Its best to transfer it off of the lees because autolysis will start to happen in a few weeks.

So now there's nothing to do except let it sit for at least another week.

12/13 update.
I'm lazy. I probably won't bottle up my chardonnay until mid january, so instead of waiting, my pinot noir is ready to be bottled.

After secondary fermentation, add the sulphites, potassium sorbate, and the isinglass. From there you wait at least another week until its clear.

Now that its clear, its time to bottle.

Bottling cane into the bottle. Bottles were cleaned, sanitized, and purged with CO2 to make sure that none of the wines go stale or get an acetobacter infection.

Buy some corks....

and a corker....

And thats it. 27 750ml bottles of wine. I already gave one to my buddy that helped me bottle. The corks are about $0.25 each. Which brings the price of the wine to $2.25/bottle. The bottles were free from friends and a local winery.

Right now it can sit for a few months or years or just drink it right away. Its up to you.

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Edited by daussaulit (12/13/05 07:03 PM)

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