El Dorado Home Wine Making Website - Home Wine Making Information and Wine Recipes
Home Wine Making
- 21. Barley Wine
- (Fruit Wine)
- Back to Fruit Wine Recipes BARLEY WINE Ingredients: 1 lb. barley 1 lb. raisins 1 lb. potatoes 3 1⁄2 lb. preserving sugar Yeast, yeast nutrient 1 gallon hot water The juice of two lemons 1 Campden ...
- Created on 15 August 2016
- 22. Blueberry Wine
- (Fruit Wine)
- ... it is at 70 degrees. If so, add yeast. Cover primary fermenter. Stir daily, check SG and record in notebook, press pulp lightly. When "must" reaches SG of 1.030 (about 5-8 days) remove fruit pressing ...
- Created on 15 August 2016
- 23. Banana Wine
- (Fruit Wine)
- ... and sypon wine off sediment into 6.5 gallon glass carboy secondary. Attach airlock. 6. When ferment is complete (S.G. has reached 1.000 - about 3 weeks) siphon of sediment into clean 5.0 gallon glass ...
- Created on 15 August 2016
- 24. Blackberry Wine Recipe ( 1 gallon)
- (Fruit Wine)
- ... out. Check the hydrometer reading daily until your S.G. reaches 1.030. This will take about 5 days or so. Take your bag of blackberry pulp out of your fermenter and squeeze it until all of the juice ...
- Created on 11 August 2016
- 25. Apricot Wine
- (Fruit Wine)
- ... (3-5 days) strain juice lightly from bag. Siphon wine off sediment into glass secondary (6.5 gallon Carboy). Attach airlock. 7. When ferment is complete (S.G. has reached 1.000 - about 3 weeks) siphon ...
- Created on 11 August 2016
- 26. Potassium Sorbate
- (Wine Making Information)
- ... it can impart. However, if used properly, sorbate can be very effective without the aroma and taste it can impart. Average threshold levels for detecting sorbate are about 0.182 g/l, so with the proper ...
- Created on 10 August 2016
- 27. Sulphur Dioxide (SO2) in Winemaking
- (Wine Making Information)
- ... of grapes will give you about what you need—somewhere around 30 to 40 parts per million SO2. Don’t do this with white grapes or when using red grapes to make a rosé. When you press, the SO2 will wash ...
- Created on 10 August 2016
- 28. Wine Tasting Course
- (Wine Making Information)
- ... a lesson in history, geography, agriculture, botany; sometimes anthropology, religion, psychology and more. There's no reason to be snobbish about wine, and none to fear it. But it's well worth talking about ...
- Created on 22 August 2015
- 29. Sulphur Dioxide in WineMaking
- (Home Wine Making)
- ... of grapes will give you about what you need—somewhere around 30 to 40 parts per million SO2. Don’t do this with white grapes or when using red grapes to make a rosé. When you press, the SO2 will wash ...
- Created on 22 August 2015
- 30. Wine Glossary
- (Uncategorised)
- ... grape juice which measures 15.5 degrees on the Balling or Brix scale contains about 15.5% sugar. Banyuls: The most famous dessert wines of France if Sauternes and Barsac are not included as dessert ...
- Created on 29 January 2015
- 31. Port Wine Instructions
- (Home Wine Making)
- ... gravity. There is approximately 4 point of specific gravity for a point of Brix. A word about the "high proof alcohol" needed to make PORT or any other fortified wine. I use EVERCLEAR, which is a brand ...
- Created on 29 January 2015
- 32. FAQ Tech Tips
- (Home Wine Making)
- ... If you are monitoring MLF by paper chromatography this will always show up if the concentration is greater than about 0.2g/L. I wouldn't add malic to a red wine at any stage but that's just me. Sometimes ...
- Created on 12 September 2014
- 33. Acidity in Wine
- (Home Wine Making)
- ... (provided) to precisely measure the desired amount into the test tube, and be sure to rinse the syringe afterwards. Next, put about 3 drops of phenolphthalein indicating solution into the test tube. ...
- Created on 12 September 2014
- 34. Acid/pH Adjustments
- (Home Wine Making)
- ... 3.3 may require about 4 g/l of tartaric acid instead of the rule-of-thumb 3g/l as the ratio is on a curve rather than being linear; 3. Adding acid can result in some precipitation of potassium hydrogen ...
- Created on 12 September 2014
- 35. Acid Control in Winemaking
- (Uncategorised)
- ... solution. Unless you are confident about your ability to correctly interpret these colour changes, you should use one of the alternative methods of testing reds discussed later. Shelf-life of Sodium ...
- Created on 12 September 2014
- 36. Growing Grapes in El Dorado County #2
- (Uncategorised)
- ... recorder in the Shenandoah Valley of Amador county at an elevation of 1560'. Amador averages about 170 degree days/yr higher that Camino, but the average daily maximum temperatures in Amador are significantly ...
- Created on 24 June 2014
- 37. Growing Grapes in El Dorado County
- (Award Winning Grapes)
- ... would like to know about the climate, but both are useful. Degree-day summations are easiest to understand as they are based on physical measurements (temperature), but as they utilize only average daily ...
- Created on 24 June 2014
- 38. Home Page
- (Award Winning Grapes)
- ... and carbon dioxide (CO2) along with numerous minor by-products. This web site will help you solve some common problems in home wine making, what materials you'll need to get started, and how to go about ...
- Created on 01 August 2013