Wine making?

[dralarms]

I'm not in your area but I can tell you that for juices go to www.homewinery.com , they sell 1/2 gallon concentrates that make 5 gallons of wine. Also you can pm me with questions.

[TMF]

I'm not in your area but I can tell you that for juices go to www.homewinery.com , they sell 1/2 gallon concentrates that make 5 gallons of wine. Also you can pm me with questions.

Thanks for the link. I ordered the Reisling concentrate from a company on Amazon and it included everything I needed like yeast and fining agents. I was looking to make a simple and cheap white that my wife would be into, and this one came at just over $40. Using the kit as an educational experience I then made the 5 other single gallon batches and have on order the fining and stabilizing agents for later. I'm kinda curious how others did with their hobo wine from Welch's concentrate. I have three different hobo recipes going to see which recipe best suits what I want. I'd be curious how other Welch's batches turned out after sitting in the bottle for a few months.

[dralarms]

I make welches all the time, if done right it makes a very good wine. I've had some age a year before finishing the batch off but most of the time 7 or 8 months is all I can keep it for. Too easy to drink. :) ,

I keep something going all the time.

[Guest RebelCowboySnB]

:rofl: The thought of making wine out of Welch's brand juce make me laugh...

Edited November 3, 2013 by RebelCowboySnB

[dralarms]

:rofl: The thought of making wine out of Welch's brand juce make me laugh...

Come to athens and I'll show how good it really is.

Check your history, welches used to sell wine. There is a youtube video of the commercial.

[Guest RebelCowboySnB]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Bramwell_Welch

 

Welch was anti-wine. He was part of the big push to get wine out of church. He invented the pasteurization prosses to stop fermintation. The product was first called  Dr. Welch's Unfermented Wine before it was changed to Welch's Grape Juice. The whole bases of the company was founded in hate of fermented wine.

 

Thats why its funny. It should make wine just the same.

[dralarms]

Well, didnt know that. But the add clearly stated wine so I ASSUMED that it was wine. Makes an excellent wine. The winery here (strykers) before he closed made something called Athenian, when he was going to close he tokd me if I wanted to make a wine just like that just get welches concentrate and make it.

[dralarms]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynOozt3-hY4&feature=youtube_gdata_player

He clearly states kosher wine

[TMF]

I make welches all the time, if done right it makes a very good wine. I've had some age a year before finishing the batch off but most of the time 7 or 8 months is all I can keep it for. Too easy to drink. :) ,
I keep something going all the time.

That's good to hear; I've seen a lot of stuff online regarding it not turning out right. I figured it might be to a flawed process or spoilage. Do you add anything to stabilize it or do you just do juice/sugar/water/yeast/ferment then bottle? I was thinking about bottling some without the sulfites added just to see how long it would stay.

Also, how drinkable would you describe yours at the end of fermentation?

[dralarms]

Well as far as drinking right after fermentation, it depends on the yeast, temp., and starting product. I've had wine that was good right out of the gate and I've had some that took a year to be good.

I do use sorbate and k-meta. Sorbate to stall the fermentation (keeps yeast from reproducing) and k-meta (sulfate to help preserve the final product.

If you don't use sorbate and try and backsweeten you can create bottle bombs, blowing corks all over the place.

You wine will keep a year or so without k-meta but it will keep better with it, it kills bacteria.

You ca. Also use k-meta to sanitize your equipment.

Never use bleach on anything used in your wine making process.

Only buy glass carboys, because if you decide you really like this hobby then you will at some point want a all in one vaccum pump. Not only can you rack it between carboys, you degass (remove CO2), and you can also bottle very easy using the pump.