How do I make wine out of 4 gallons of squeezed grapes?

2 Comments on “How do I make wine out of 4 gallons of squeezed grapes?”

1. #1 Trid
   on Jan 6th, 2009 at 10:44 pm

   You needn’t have cooked anything…it’s not necessary for making wine.
   However, now that you have the grape squeezin’s, all you really need to do is add yeast and cover it up (not sealed, mind you).

   Baking yeast will work, but not really well. Then again, if you’ve cooked any part of the grapes, it’s not going to turn out like a typical wine anyway, so that’s less of a concern. If you can get wine yeast, great, if not, that’s ok too. For 4 gallons, add about 2 oz. of yeast. Let it sit and bubble for about a week or so (covered to keep any bugs or contaminants out, but not sealed because you have to let the fermentation gases out -CO2). Then siphon the wine into another container, taking great care not to get the chunks and sedimet off the bottom. Let it sit for a couple more weeks, and you have wine.

   That’s the quick and dirty of it. There’s actually a ton of details to add on to it, but if this round turns out ok, you might then be interested in getting more into it and more of the nitpicky details later.

   Happy brewing.

2. #2 John
   on Jan 8th, 2009 at 9:44 pm

   To make wine you need two things sugar and yeast. Mix your juice with yeast, let it ferment, you have wine.

   you’ll need a bucket large enough to handle the fermentation process.

   more info on making wine at the link below.

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