Important Reminders on Wine Making
Cleanliness
This particular reminder can never be stressed and repeated enough. It is one of the most crucial in all wine directions. Always maintain cleanliness in your workstation whether it be your kitchen, your backyard or wherever it is that you choose to make your own homemade wine. When we say cleanliness, it does not only mean that your kitchen counter or work station must be physically clean like spotless and all that but chemically speaking, it must be clean too! This means, everything must be sanitized including all equipment and surrounding areas. Working in a sterilized area will ensure that no bacteria will come enter or mix with your concoction and airborne yeasts and vinegar flies won’t be around to ruin your mixture and turn it to vinegar. You will know more about this as you go through with the wine making process.
Fermentation
The process of fermentation is the part in wine directions that may be a bit hard to understand at first but really, it’s not that complicated. Putting it in simple terms, it is just yeast feeding on sugar which produces carbon dioxide and alcohol. It is the process of fermentation that will eventually turn your grape juice into wine or alcoholic beverage. There are two types of fermentation that can happen at this stage — the process of primary fermentation that can take up to 14 days and the process of secondary fermentation that can take up ten more days. Read more