driftphenom
08-06-2009, 09:26 AM
At my house, i have like 3 grape vines, and a huge blueberry bush. So i decided to make some wine. I did alot of research on "homemade" wine, but alot of the recipes call for shit that i dont have at home. I.E.- pectic enzymes, campden tablets? People have been making wine for millenia without that crap, so i decided to do the same.
Essentially, all you need to make alcohol is yeast and some form of sugar. For wine making its called fermenting. You just mash a bunch of grapes (i used blueberrys too) and let it stew @ room temp for a like a month. Mine is starting to settle down a bit and now its time to bottle.
The problem is that i cant think of an efficient way of squeezing all the juice from the pulp i'll be removing. Supposedly, getting all the juice from the pulp is a REALLY important step. I could buy a $300 wine press, but that would defeat the purpose of the free booze- cause thats all it is to me lol. Iwas was thinking of using a c-clamp with some boards in between to squeeze it out, or a vise. But all i have is a table vise w/ only like a 1 inch clearence under it, and its stationary.
I was wondering if anyone on here has ever made this, or something like it before. If so i'd like some pointers or advice, because at this point im kind of wingin' it. The stuff smells pretty gnarly, but i'm not really a wine drinker, so i dont know what im lookin for as far as taste, smell, color.
let me know what you guys think.
the first pic is the "wort" i think its called. Co2 is a byproduct of the production of alcohol. That is why all the smashed fruit is at the top . the Co2 is pushing up on it.
http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c112/driftphenom/100_1432.jpg
Second pic is the wort mixed up. You can see all the bubbles that were under the grapes pushing them up
http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c112/driftphenom/100_1433.jpg
last pic is a small glass i put some of the wine in to show color. Since i havent filtered it at all, its still got a lot of pulp in it, and resembles blood in a lot of ways. You can shine a flashlight into it and the light doesnt make it though to the other side.
http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c112/driftphenom/100_1434.jpg
please feel free to give advice, talk about your own attempts or whatever. i was inspired to do this because
A. it was free
B. a friend and i made some beer tht was bangin as hell
C. i like booze
thank you and have a bitchin day
Essentially, all you need to make alcohol is yeast and some form of sugar. For wine making its called fermenting. You just mash a bunch of grapes (i used blueberrys too) and let it stew @ room temp for a like a month. Mine is starting to settle down a bit and now its time to bottle.
The problem is that i cant think of an efficient way of squeezing all the juice from the pulp i'll be removing. Supposedly, getting all the juice from the pulp is a REALLY important step. I could buy a $300 wine press, but that would defeat the purpose of the free booze- cause thats all it is to me lol. Iwas was thinking of using a c-clamp with some boards in between to squeeze it out, or a vise. But all i have is a table vise w/ only like a 1 inch clearence under it, and its stationary.
I was wondering if anyone on here has ever made this, or something like it before. If so i'd like some pointers or advice, because at this point im kind of wingin' it. The stuff smells pretty gnarly, but i'm not really a wine drinker, so i dont know what im lookin for as far as taste, smell, color.
let me know what you guys think.
the first pic is the "wort" i think its called. Co2 is a byproduct of the production of alcohol. That is why all the smashed fruit is at the top . the Co2 is pushing up on it.
http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c112/driftphenom/100_1432.jpg
Second pic is the wort mixed up. You can see all the bubbles that were under the grapes pushing them up
http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c112/driftphenom/100_1433.jpg
last pic is a small glass i put some of the wine in to show color. Since i havent filtered it at all, its still got a lot of pulp in it, and resembles blood in a lot of ways. You can shine a flashlight into it and the light doesnt make it though to the other side.
http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c112/driftphenom/100_1434.jpg
please feel free to give advice, talk about your own attempts or whatever. i was inspired to do this because
A. it was free
B. a friend and i made some beer tht was bangin as hell
C. i like booze
thank you and have a bitchin day