Making wine from grapes

What you need:

• 1 wine press
• 1 glass balloon 15 liters
• 2 carboys 5 liters
• 1 angled bottle brush
• 1 normal bottle brush
• 1 filling aid
• 1 funnel
• 2 miter attachments
• 1 wine lifter
• 1 vial with pure yeast
• 15g anti-gelling agent
• 2g potassium pyrosulfite
• 4g yeast nutrient salt
• 500g sugar
• 15kg of grapes

This is how you can make wine from grapes

To be correct Wine only fresh and ripe grapes with a core are best suited to produce. Seedless grapes have less sugar and less acidity.

1. First, in order to make wine, you have to clean the inside of the three glass balloons with the bottle brushes with dishwashing detergent. After multiple rinsing with clear water you have to put the balloons upside down in a bucket so that they drain well.
2. Then the grapes that you use to make wine are rinsed well and plucked from the stalks. The grapes are then crushed with the wine press, using enough force to make the berries burst.
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3. Then use the filling aid to fill in the juice together with the pulp in the large balloon. When you've used all of the grapes you're making wine from, the balloon should be 2/3 to 3/4 full.
4. To make wine, please add the 500g sugar and the 15ml anti-gelling agent and wave the balloon back and forth. Then add potassium pyrosulphite and yeast nutrient salt. The mash for the wine should be at room temperature.


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5. If you are making white wine, please cover the balloon and wait a day. When the mash is more liquid, you can use the funnel to fill some of it into the two smaller balloons.
6. The remaining part of the peel is placed in a clean tea towel and a wine press is used again to squeeze out the juice.
7. The must obtained is now distributed on the small balloons. Once everything has been processed from the large balloon, please rinse the balloon and pour all of the must back into it.
8. To ensure that the wine is made correctly, please fill a bottle with pure yeast.
9. After putting on the fermentation lock, you have to put the fermentation attachment through the lock.
10. The fermentation process of the wine then begins in about three days. The dead yeast settles in the lower area of ​​the balloon as white sludge.
11. Now you can use a wine lifter to fill the young wine into the small balloons so that the balloons are filled to the top, because the oxygen in the air is now the enemy of the wine. To be on the safe side, you can add 0.5g of potassium pyrosufite per balloon.
12. Please close the balloons with the fermentation lock and provide this with a fermentation attachment.
13. Now you have almost finished making the wine. The glass balloons should now stand in a cool place for about five months, as the wine will still develop during this time.
14. You can now fill the bottles with the wine using the wine lifter hose and then, after corking the bottles, put them in a cool place. Now the wine is made from grapes!