The Basic Steps On How To Make Wine
You have now reached the most exciting part of this journey — discovering the real secrets on how to make wine, one that is homemade. Before starting, it is important to remember that cleanliness is always the name of the game on how to make wine: clean and sanitize everything before you begin. Below is a summarized version of the process of how to make wine that is perfect and right at the comforts of your own home. Detailed wine directions are available in our free Ebook which we are giving to our subscribers and readers.
1. The first process on how to make wine will of course involve the function of fermentation or the process of turning yeast into alcohol by feeding off on sugar. Therefore, in order to do this, you would need your yeast and any sugary product to be mixed together. If you have a good wine making recipe, just follow it. Otherwise, you can get three basic wine recipes in the Ebook that we will give to you for free.
2. Next on the list on how to make wine is Racking. It is the process of siphoning the wine from the first container to the second container. This happens after about 10 days of primary fermentation. This is because you wouldn’t want any dead yeast to affect the flavor of your wine now, would you? Therefore the goal here is to get all the wine and leave the dead yeast in the first bottle. Of course, you may lose a little wine in the process and you won’t have the same amount of wine as you did on the first bottle. So what you do is add a bit of regular tap water and then…wait.
3. The next on the list on how to make wine is all about the airlock. Airlock must be on for about 2-4 weeks. At the end of this period, you should have your very first homemade wine. The longer it sits there inside the secondary bottle, the better your wine will taste. This secondary stage of fermentation can take up to three months. Just be patient.
4. When the winemaker tries to stop fermentation, we call this stabilizing the wine. The commonly used stabilizer is Potassium Sorbate. It doesn’t necessarily kill the yeast but it does stop the yeast from fermenting.
5. Bottles and corks must be prepared way before start experimenting on how to make wine. You can ask for used bottles in your local wine shops or supermarkets. Just be sure you sterilize them first and clean them well. When you fill up each bottle with wine, fill each one up to the neck and cork them one after the other or at the same time. A little air won’t hurt the whole batch. Just be careful not to splash the wine and to just quietly siphon it from the first bottle to the second.
6. Now that you’re done, you can do other things to improve the quality of your homemade wine and make it more presentable especially if you plan to give it as a gift to someone special. You can add flavors, use different additives, add fortifiers, etc.
Now that you know how to make wine, what are you waiting for?
