Day 4 18/1/13 DIY Fermentation

Wine making
We used two recipes to make wine.

The first recipe is from the hackeria website - Project 16: DIY Fermentation or the Art of making Wine.

The process :

&bull; Mash 1kg of white grapes, sugar and 6l water

&bull; Heat the mash

&bull; Mash the mass again and let cool down below 40 degrees Celsius

&bull; add 10g yeast mixed in lukewarm water

&bull; Pour the mass and yeast in the fermentor, that's been disinfected before

&bull; Insert in the fermentor and seal the top

&bull; place the end of the tube in a disinfectant to prevent oxygen, bacteria from entering it

&bull; Fermentation process 14-19 days

&bull; Filter wine

The second is recipe for a homemade wine:

&bull; blend 1kg of red grapes, filter the grape juice

&bull; add 1cm ginger, 2 cinnamon barks to the grape juice and boil it

&bull; add honey to taste

&bull; strain out the cinnamon, ginger and let the mixture cool down

&bull; when it's lukewarm, add yeast

&bull; pour the mixture in a bottle and keep it in a dark, cool place

&bull; after a week, check the wine, remove foam from top without mixing it (repeat weekly for a month)