I need a good recipe for making wine out of home picked grapes!?

4 Comments

1. Chef Väsazio says:

   September 24, 2009 at 9:33 pm

   grapes
   sugar
   water
   yeast
   1 slice dried bread

   Choose ripe Wild Grapes, Pick them in clusters on the stems, bring them home and wash them in cold water leaving them on the stems.
   Place grapes with stems on, in water just to cover, in an enamel or non metallic kettle.
   Bring just to a boil, simmer till skins on the grapes pop, Mash the grapes in the water, Strain juice into a non- metallic container, through several layers of cheese cloth or a clean dish towel to remove grape pulp, seeds and stems.
   Reserve the juice, Throw away stems and pulp.
   Measure the juice.
   Add equal amounts of sugar and water, (ae: 1 gal juice, 1 gal sugar, 1 gal water) put wine mixture in clean crock.
   spread or sprinkle 1 cake or one pkg dry yeast on dry bread crust and allow it to float on top of the wine mixture, cover crock with a clean dish towel, let ferment for 3 days, strain wine, into non metallic container such as an enamel canner kettle, wash the crock and be sure to rinse it very well, put wine back into the crock, allow to ferment for 4 days, stirring every day and skimming the foam from top, strain the wine again as before, wash the crock again, put wine back in the crock.
   allow to ferment 4 days, stirring and skimming every day.
   Strain the wine once more, this time it is ready to bottle.
   The older it gets the better.

   ~ Chef V ~
2. Paul Ding says:

   September 24, 2009 at 9:33 pm

   Squeeze the grapes. Put the grape juice, and a little yeast, in a jug, and close it with a trap so that carbon dioxide can escape but air can’t get in. Wait. Decant into bottles and cap them. Wait. Chill and drink.
3. Cheryl says:

   September 24, 2009 at 9:33 pm

   Follow the chef’s recipe. I remember I use to put a balloon over the lip of a glass bottle. The yeast would make the balloon inflate. When it balloon went down, the wine was ready:~)
4. thedreamweaverwolf says:

   September 24, 2009 at 9:33 pm

   his recipe makes just under one gallon.

   1 qt. grapes (heaping full quart)
   2 lb. sugar
   1 pkg. powdered Fleischmann’s Yeast

   Use a big mouth earthen or glass jar - 1 gallon size. Mash grapes in jar and pour in sugar. (Use potato masher or anything to crush grapes.) Dissolve yeast in warm water. Stir well.
   Fill jar to within about 3/4 inch of top with warm water. Cover jar with cheese cloth or other porous cloth so air can get in jar and fumes get out.

   Put in a place and keep at least 21 days. Strain and put in bottles, dark ones best.