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TTC After a Loss
First homemade wine....
Is BOTTLED!!!! YAY!!! It is very, very good. We did an "exotic fruits white zin" and I had a glass last night while we were bottling and it is excellent. And its color is just like the beringer white zin.
It seriously was sooooooo easy to do. And it was like $50 to make 29 bottles.
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Re: First homemade wine....
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April 2011 CP @ 5 weeks
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Yeah, we bought a wine kit from Midwest Supplies. Their kits (fermenters, carboys, etc) are cheaper on ebay (they're buy it now from midwest directly). I think we paid like $60-70 for the kit. It came with everything you need plus a video to walk you through the process
Then we went ahead and bought a fruit juice kit so we had a "sure thing" to start with. When you make it with your own grapes, there's a lot more to the process, with checking PH and stuff....but they give you instructions on how to do that if you want. Then we just saved back bottles to use (you can buy them if you need).
From now on, all we'll have to do is buy the corks and the fruit kits if we choose.
If you're thinking about it, I highly recommend it. It was sooooo much fun to watch it and it really was easy. I would guess that we had less than 4 hours from start to finish in the process. And if you do a sweet wine (like we did), you can drink it immediatly, so the wait is just like 4-6 weeks.
MTHFR 2 copies of C677t mutation homozygous 2/2010
Baby A born via c-section 1/10/12 @38w3d
BFP #1 11/4/09 m/c 4w3d baby crab
BFP #2 12/4/09 m/c 9w3d baby lion
BFP #3 7/1/10 m/c 4w1d baby fish
BFP #4 5/8/11
BFP #5 8/17/12 10dpo beta 7
It really isn't bad at all. Here's the short version of what you do (like I said, if you buy the kit from midwest, it comes with a video).
Assuming you buy a fruit kit, on first day, you just boil a little bit of water to put a package of stuff in (i don't remember what it was but the stuff comes clearly labled). Stirred it up and then put the fruit juice in it and then filled the ferminter up with water (it was around 5 gallons of water). Then you put the yeast on the top and seal it up
At first, it was bubbling like 2-3 times a second. We noticed it starting to slow down. After a week (I think), you check the specific gravity (midwest gives you the thing to check it with in the kit). If it reads within a specific range, then primary fermintation is done. If it doesn't, then you wait longer.
After primary fementation, you siphon (provided in the kit) the wine from the fermenter (5 gallon bucket) to a carboy....which is see-through. This is secondary fermintation. It stays in there for another week. You could tell that fermintation was pretty much done because it wasn't bubbling. Anyways, you just measure the specific gravity two days in a row to confirm that its not changing (done fermenting).
Then you put in all the stabilizers and clarifiers. THere were probably 5 different things provided in the kit that you put in here. The only key to this step is getting it stirred really well so that you don't have oxygen in the wine. DH made a little stirrer for our drill, so it went really easy.
Then you just let it sit for 2 weeks. All this is doing is clarifying it, so once the color looks right, you're all done. Bottling was easy. It comes with a bottle filler, so I held the siphon hose so we didn't get sediment in the bottles and DH was filling bottles. The corker that we bought (we had the upgrade) was really easy to use. I just held the bottles and DH corked them. They sit upright for 3 days, then you can store them on their side.
All of this is supposed to be done in an area that stays somewhere around 65-75 degrees.
LOVE!
MTHFR 2 copies of C677t mutation homozygous 2/2010
Baby A born via c-section 1/10/12 @38w3d
BFP #1 11/4/09 m/c 4w3d baby crab
BFP #2 12/4/09 m/c 9w3d baby lion
BFP #3 7/1/10 m/c 4w1d baby fish
BFP #4 5/8/11
BFP #5 8/17/12 10dpo beta 7