Wine: Night…and Day! How To Make Your Own Wine
Making homemade wine is a fun hobby. I have a few friends whom have been into it for years, but I am just getting around to producing my own. You can make homemade wine for a fraction of what it would cost you to purchase store bought wine and in these tough economic times, it sure helps when you still want to entertain friends at home. There is a lot of personal gratification with the recognition by family and friends of my homemade wine.
Another great bonus for me is when wine making spreads in the community and to other friends whom can then help me with the process. The reward in this is, with life’s busy schedule, it gives my girlfriend and I some wonderful time together, which is very precious to me.
Not only is making red homemade wine a fun hobby, but drinking red wine can benefit your health. Studies have shown that consuming red wine in moderation (one to two glasses a day) has several health benefits. One of the most widely documented benefits of red wine is heart health. Researchers found red wine inhibited the build-up of fatty material along the artery walls, which helped to explain why people in France have a relatively low incidence of heart disease despite a diet rich in saturated fats. Other studies also indicate that red wine can raise HDL cholesterol (the good cholesterol) and prevent LDL cholesterol (the bad cholesterol) from forming. Red wine is a particularly rich source of antioxidants which studies suggest may help protect against certain cancers.
From the beginning I was successful, thanks to the support of friends and the countless online resources. One friend still buys the grapes and crushes them to make his red homemade wine to this day. However, I make my homemade wine from the juice, as it produces a wine of almost equal quality to the grape method and eliminates the crushing, pressing and disposing of the skins. One of the most important things I have learned is in order to make great homemade wine, always use high quality juice or grapes because the quality of your homemade wine is totally dependent on this.
Red homemade wine is easier for the beginner. This is the simplified explanation of how to make homemade wine from grapes:
1) Crush the grapes to extract the juice.
2) The skins and pulp are kept with the juice during fermentation to add more color and give the wine body.
3) After the fermentation, the homemade wine is then transferred to glass containers.
4) Skins and pulp are pressed to extract any remaining liquid.
5) The homemade wine is given time to age and filtered several times to leave behind sediments.
6) Bottle, cork and age. There you have it.
This is the simplified explanation of how to make homemade wine from juice:
1) Ferment the juice for about 4-10 days.
2) After the fermentation, the homemade wine is then transferred to glass containers.
3) The homemade wine is given time to age and filtered several times to leave behind sediments.
4) Bottle, cork and age.
Have you ever made your own wine or alcohol? Have another method that works well? Please share here!
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