Hand Made Wine
Don't have a wine press and all that fancy stuff? How about a little hand-squeasing! Here are some steps I took to make a micro-brew. After making the big wine, there were still some grapes on the arbor. Here is what I did:
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| Just mashed up the grapes using my hands into a two gallon glass jar (Oct 17tjh). | I then placed it in the basement with a very loose lid to ferment for a day (Oct 18th). | Twice a day I would mix it. Then I let it separate and siphoned off some of the wine to fill one bottle. |
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| Beautiful! I then
allowed the rest to ferment another day and separate. Siphoned that
into two more bottles.
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Here is everything down in the
basement. I was using a plastic container as a 'lid.' Oct 19th.
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Here is a close up.
Fermentation is still going strong in the bottle. VERY loose cap.
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| All fermenting still a few
days later.
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Still not quite clear, but I flipped the tops over (Oct 28th). | Clarified (Nov 11). |