How to Make Wine From a Wine Kit. - Part 1

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Part one covers how to boost alcohol in with your homemade wine kits,sanitizing equipment, adding additives, using 28" spoon.

Empty contents of wine kit out. Contents include: wine yeast, bentonite, sodium metabisulphite, isinglass and potassium sorbate.

Fill 6.5 gallon carboy with 2 gallons of warm water, and add the bentonite. Stir carefully. When dissolved uncap wine juice from bag and add wine concentrate to 6.5 gallon primary fermenting carboy. Add additional corn sugar to boost the alcohol and top off with the remaining water in order to achieve 6 gallons total volume.

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[bratmassakern]

wont the sanitaser kill the yeast? :/

[benshomebrew]

@bratmassakern

No, the sanitizer will be diluted so much that it won't be effective.

[gregga17]

Ben also wondering you use 2 gallons of water, what approximately is the amount of juice your using? Can you use a grape juice and what it be the same ration? Looks like 2 gallons water to 2 gallons juice? Thanks!

[benshomebrew]

Gregga,

I'm using a concentrate wine kit grape juice that's made for 6 gallon batches.

If you're using welches or anything like that I think it's 2 or 3 cans per gallon. I'm not sure though because I've never made it that way. However, just use your hydrometer to measure the sugar content and get it to where you want it for alcohol content and go from there.

[gregga17]

What is the 1st package you add to the warm water in the beginning? Thanks, Good Video!

[benshomebrew]

Gregga,

It's bentonite. It comes in the wine making kits and I don't think it's necessary for all wine making, just for the wine kits.

[jamesbondaygee]

Reminded me of Bill Murray!

[405OklahomaBrewing]

@Adol666

Yes you do you nonce

[Adol666]

@405OklahomaBrewing Wrong. You dont have to rinse star san. its a no rinse sanitizer. In fact that defeats the purpose of using a no rinse Sanitizer

[405OklahomaBrewing]

Good video, but starsand you have to rinse, one step and easy clean you dont need to rinse

[anthony0803]

Instead of the sugar you could just make a little over 5 gals of wine and that would boost the alcohol and not make the wine watered down. A better way is to put in all juice concentrate and top up with water until the hydrometer reads the correct reading for 12.5% alcohol. If you follow this you will never have watery or weak wine. The only drawback is you will have a little less wine.

[WineMakingToday]

yeah, corn sugar...boast that alcohol!!!

[palehorse5]

@fark337 well.....maybe, of course pretty much all you can get in canned is concord, and it's cheaper....and I only have three gallon carboys so that's what I have stuck with as far as grape juice goes. If you ever in TN give me a holler and you can test the quality.

[fark337]

@palehorse5 the juice in the kits are probly alot higher quality for making wine than canned juices