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How to Make Homemade Wine | Learn How to Make Your Own Extraordinary Wine

If you would like to discover how to make homemade wine, there is no reason for not doing it. You don't need a license, a cellar, and the utensils you need are probably in your home to begin with. It is quite simple to learn How to Make Homemade Wine.

The first issue you must learn is the do's and don'ts of winemaking.

Do
- Rack at least once, and twice if possible.
- Use new corks and boil the old ones.
- Keep your first ferment covered.
- Keep the secondary fermentation sealed.
- Keep your equipment clean.
- Keep all bottles filled.
- Add sugar progressively and keep records with many details.
- Keep red wines in dark bottles so they don't lose their color.
- Use reliable yeast nutrient frequently.
- Make wines too dry instead of too sweet: add sugar later.
- Use fermentation traps.
- Taste the wine at intervals to make sure the process is going well.

Don't
- Sell your wine. It is illegal. Don't attempt to distil your own wine as well.
- Let vinegar flies come in contact with your wine.
- Use metal vessels.
- Use tools or containers made out of resinous wood.
- Forget to stir a must twice a day.
- Use too much sugar.
- Try to speed up fermentation by turning up the temperature.
- Be hasty.
- Let dead yeast or sediment anywhere near your wine.
- Filter for no reasonor too soon.
- Store your wine in unsanitary jars or bottles.
- Bottle your wine before it's done fermenting.
- Employ screw-stopper bottles.

Now that you have a good sense of what you should do and what you shouldn't, I will show you one of my favorite wine recipes and in no time you can learn How to Make Homemade Wine.

Either black, green or amber grapes can be used for this recipe and the resulting wine will suit almost every taste.

4 lb. of grapes - 3 lb. of white sugar - 1 oz. yeast
1 gallon water.

Strip the grapes from the stalks and then squash them by hand. Pour the boiling water over them and leave soaking for two days. Strain and put the juice through a jelly-bag. Let drain and then pour into the fermenting container and add the sugar.

Stir until the sugar is dissolved -this will take a lot of time with cold grape-juice. When all the sugar is dissolved sprinkle the yeast on top and stir in. Cover, and ferment for fourteen days; after which proceed with bottling. It's so much bliss to learn How to Make Homemade Wine.

If you want to discover over 139 step-by-step recipes and learn all the secrets to making your own wine, visit my website: www.SecretsOfWinemaking.com - How to Make Homemade Wine

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