How to Make Homemade Fruit Wine : Prep Second Digestion Stage of Wine Making

The second digestion phase of wine making is letting the wine ferment with a breather. Learn how to digest and ferment organic wine at home in this free wine making video.

Expert: Jeff Belli
Bio: Jeff Belli heads his own business, Chi of Me, located in middle Tennessee. Coming from a family with a long tradition in gardening, Jeff is passionate about having a positive impact on Mother Earth.
Filmmaker: Doug Craig

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• fruit
• organic
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• yeast
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• corking
• corks

[kilamanjaro18]

dont ever put your bottles in the oven to sterilise them!!! doing that may lead to shorter life for your glass at best and catastrophic failure and/or explosion plus or minus injury at worst. these vessels are not tempered to the same standards as Pyrex, so you should not rely on their integrity after sticking them in the fire. use dilute bleach, star san, iodophor or some other sanitizing solution.

[woodbinedrinker]

You should ferment that shirt.

[Scurvymcdiggle]

@9114steve the main issue is there are better ways to do these things now. that will add to your chances to make a good wine or beer thats what this is all about.

clean everything well

sanitize everything that touches you juice fruit or wine. it isnt cooked so you have to be careful.

use airlocks towels dont keep bacteria or mold spores out.

[zzbunch]

this isnt for those people making thousands of gallons of wine to sell this is for people who just want a homemade batch of decent wine and can tweak the process to fit what they like. this is just an overview of the process to show you how it basically works.

[9114steve]

oh wow - are your sure you haven't made 2 Billion? your name is Moet? isn't it?

Oh well simple typo I guess. By the way, where are your videos? - I hope they aren't commercially sensitive. but thanks for the criticism - I'll look out for your name on all the homemade websites out there... I mean come on this guy doesn't even use fish to filter the wine - fish are organic aren't they?

[jmee266]

the 70's are over man, plus so you know, they still use certain "chemicals" even on "organic" fruit, dont want to burst your bubble but you breath more crap that you eat from a "non-organic" fruit!! unless you live in a bubble

[jmee266]

this are the worst wine making videos ever made, what the heck are you doing?!?! i guess there is more than one way to skin a cat...dang, and what the hell is organic wine?!?!? thought all wine was organic, ohh you must think all those scientific names for things are actually chemicals and not natural additives huh!

[psumner77]

Over the past 16 years, I've made over 2,000 of bottles of wine. So, I pop onto youtube to look for any new tips, tricks or technologies, and I stumble across this guy.

Buddy, I share your affection for what we do, but don't teach people to make wine ever again. This isn't even a good overview of the process. Towel covers, t-shirt filters, pouring between containers, incorrect terminology...Come on, man. These people are trying to learn something here and you're setting them up for failure.

[lilgfunk92]

how long do you let the digestive bucket sit before straining it.