Decanting Delicious Homemade Wine in 4 Easy Steps
Homemade wine making is a fun and fulfilling process, and you can control the quality of ingredients and final product!
As we covered yesterday, you really don't know what goes into the wine you can buy at a liquor store with your paycheck, plus it's not as satisfying as creating your own! We shared some info on making your own instead.
While proper "wine" is technically only made from grapes, we call all of our fruit alcohols wine. We have a simple and accessible method that almost anyone can reproduce at home to get an alcoholic product. Check it out in our wine making post: https://steemit.com/food/@gardenofeden/how-to-make-homemade-wine-the-cheap-free-easy-sustainable-way
After a few weeks, your beverage will be alcoholic! The longer it sits, the more alcoholic it will become (up to a point, that is; the yeast will eventually reach its conversion threshold and the process will stop).
The next step is decanting! Here's how to decant your homemade wine in 4 easy steps:
- First of course you need to sterilize everything: your hands, the decanting rod and hose, all the bottle and caps/corks that will be used. We use reverse osmosis water that is chemical free and add 35% food grade hydrogen peroxide to the mix for a very sterile environment. This prep/sterilization step is often the most time consuming for decanting.
- Next, get your bottles ready to be filled, then insert the decanter rod into the wine but just at the very top so the spring is right under the surface. The goal is not to stir up the fibers & matter that have settled to the bottom.
As you can see in this picture, there is quite a bit of fiber in the bottom of the jug. We only decant a little at a time, then we will let it sit again for a few days and complete the process over. A jug of wine of this size will need about six decantations before you can't get anymore from them.
- Siphon the wine out from the bottom of the tube, keeping it as level as possible so it flows freely to fill the bottles.
- Cap/cork the bottles, and you are done! Delicious homemade wine at your fingertips, and at a fraction of the cost of liquor store wine of dubious quality.
Wine making is an excellent food preservation method! Fruits that are potentially past their prime for eating are ideal to use for wine (or vinegar, but that's another post). We make wine when we have an abundance of fruit to use up, and we recently made some seriously delicious varieties--homemade strawberry pear wine, anyone?!
Stay tuned for upcoming homemade wine tasting posts!
We hope this will inspire you to be productive and work towards the best possible life for yourself!
For additional resources on this topic, please check out some of these links and the ones above:
http://winefolly.com/review/wine-additives/
http://www.thedailybeast.com/the-great-wine-cover-up
www.intothegardenofeden.com
That's a very useful post! I would like to give it a try and I shall study over the post that you refer to which discusses making the wine!
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I can't imagine to many skills MORE useful than making ones own booze!! hahahaha
Thanks for the comment and I hope to hear of u drinking some home made wines!
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This is a great post !! I love homemade wine and I used to make watermelon wine many years ago ! It was fun and as you said I knew what I was putting in it and it tasted delicious !! I will definitely be getting back into this once I get my little country home built on my small piece of property up in the mountains !! I cant wait ! with some much needed steemit love my dreams might come true next summer !! Yippee!!! Thanks for sharing my friend !! Upped and resteemed !!👍👍👍
Thanks for reading & commenting, @karenmckersie! Watermelon wine is pretty epic. Wine making is such an enjoyable craft! You get the satisfaction of creating something yourself, and at the end of the process you can get drunk on your own product!
Yes for sure its awesome !! I feel the same way also when I make my own homemade jams and jellies !! With my own hand picked fruits !! Very satisfying and delicious !!😋😋😋😋👍
Very satisfying though not quite as fun ;-)>
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hahaha yea hopefully when having fun we don't act like that hahahaha
At least don't drink wine in a vibrating chair ! Hahaha !!😋😋😋🍷🍷🍷
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Hahahaha Yea its wine drinking time!
Yippee ! I wish I was there !! Enjoy my friend !🍷🍷🍷
In spirit!
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Accept what life offers you and try to drink from every cup. All wines should be tasted; some should only be sipped, but with others, drink the whole bottle.
A wine metaphor about life, how nice!
Bottoms up!
Looks good. Thanks for sharing the how to's. I remember a friend of the family talking about making their own wines. I may have to try this now.
Sweet, give it a shot @beccadeals! It's a really fun hobby and a valuable investment of time. Plus it's enjoyable to experiment with different fruits & flavor combos and sample them :)
Its so worth a try!
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Salud, @samic!
The only thing better than home made wine is home made wine and a feast!
Amazing!!!!!! ^^
Yea baby!
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Nice work, I am harvesting muscadines this week for some of that grape goodness! Steemit needs more winemakers!!!
Yes!
Lets brew it up and get some Steem!