| Wine is great, made for centuries all over the | | | | tightly and leave for 4 days, meanwhile acquire 10 |
| world; from the days of the ancient Greeks up to | | | | x 30 litre water drums and sterilise them. Then |
| the modern day; versions we now can buy in | | | | get ready 5 x 30 litre containers, sterilised and |
| cardboard boxes to very shapely bottles, | | | | siphon off the brew or if a tap is installed in your |
| produced to sell what is inside.However, making | | | | drum even better.Leave to stand for 2 days, lids |
| your own wine can be even more rewarding and | | | | on tight at 75 to 79 degrees F. Get the other 5 x |
| very pleasurable, if it turns out the way it is | | | | 30 litre drums ready.Use filter pads, rags or |
| supposed to.The biggest secret to anything | | | | cotton to siphon back into the other 5 clean 30 |
| produced at home is sterilisation. There is | | | | litre drums.Do this at least 5 more times, until you |
| absolutely no point in spending time and money | | | | can see that the wine is clear and by tasting, that |
| producing something that could turn out tasting | | | | the wine is ready.Now this could be refined even |
| like vinegar, so everything must be sterile. Use | | | | further as long as the formula remains the same. |
| hot water mixed with a sterilising agent, which can | | | | For instance if your 150 litre drum has a tap then |
| be purchased at any home brew shop.So you will | | | | make sure it is high enough off the floor for |
| need a 150 litre drum with an airtight removable | | | | movement of the smaller drums beneath the |
| lid, those blue ones we see all over the place are | | | | tap.You could take it to the next step by |
| ideal and not expensive. Sterilise and place in a | | | | gathering together a large collection of empty |
| nice cool, quiet section of your garage or house | | | | wine bottle that are not that hard to get, |
| or shed and set it in place because once you start | | | | restaurants, hotels, clubs, just ask and you can |
| it will be to heavy to move.Put 130 litres of grape | | | | usually receive because they are generally broken |
| juice, red or white, into the drum.Add one heaped | | | | and recycled anyway so you are just adding your |
| tablespoon of bakers' yeast, put on the lid (but | | | | little bit to preserving the environment. This |
| not tightly) or cover with muslin cloth or | | | | works, but I can not stress enough the |
| stockinet.After 8 or 9 days measure the specific | | | | importance of sterilisation for you to succeed.If |
| gravity, trying to get .98 or .99 if you can. You | | | | you feel that 130 litres to start off with is a bit |
| can purchase a hydrometer from any home brew | | | | daunting then you could scale it down making sure |
| shop for this purpose.When the correct specific | | | | that whatever percentage you do go down to is |
| gravity has been achieved add one heaped | | | | correct in relation to the formula as a whole.As |
| tablespoon of Ssodium metabysulphide (a white | | | | the world wide prices for wine tends to climb and |
| powder which will make the mix go white and | | | | climb this is a great alternative and a lot of fun to |
| bubbly as it is killing the yeast).Close the airtight lid | | | | do.I wish you well in your endeavour. |