Making 30 gallons of homemade garage wine

Making 30 gallons of wine from water, fresh strawberries, strawberry extract (both liquid and powder), canned strawberries, lemon juice, and 52lbs of sugar.

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Entertainment

Tags:

• wine
• homemade wine
• winemaking
• garage
• alcohol
• booze
• hooch
• project
• garbage can
• strawberry
• campden
• sodium metabisulfite
• potassium metabisulfite
• yeast
• acid blend
• sugar
• lemon juice
• acidity
• ph
• hydrometer

[GoHoBoJoGo]

That can isn't food grade! That wine is going to have plastic leech into it!

[BackyardAmusement]

@GoHoBoJoGo - Actually, it is food grade, as I received it from a Pepsi bottling plant.

[will3482]

@BackyardAmusement That don't mean it's food grade, unless it says it on the label. I would highly recommend looking for a used fermenter on craigslist for about 30 bucks.

[BackyardAmusement]

@will3482 - I understand that nothing is definitive until it is. I'll have to immediately notify my investors and financial backers. We'll have to issue a recall on all 30 gallons of the wine. My lawyers will certainly not be pleased to hear that we may be receiving many a law suit. Thank you, Sir. Thank you.

[liquidgrain]

Why did you add camping tablets to your wine? I can't see a purpose to adding sterilization tablets to wine, unless I'm thinking of a different kind of camping tablet. I do have a question about your results, did the strawberries come out almost completely untouched? I did the same precedure using a 4 gallon pail with a lid and when I recanted off the wine the strawberries were almost entirely whole (I did mash them though).

[BackyardAmusement]

@liquidgrain - No, they don't completely dissolve; that's why I put them in nylons first.

[ngjimmy]

I would be careful of canned food. I have tried using them, and it turns out that the preservatives used in canned food actually kill yeast.

That makes sense, if you think about the purpose of preservatives.

[will3482]

@BackyardAmusement I struck a nerve!

[roman14032]

isn't that way to much sulfite?

[liquidgrain]

And what is this 'acid blend' I heard you talking about? I always use citric acid (available pure at the pharmacy) to adjust the PH of my starting mixture.