Category Archives: Wine Making Tips

Tips for Making Wine from Concentrate

If you are just starting out, wine concentrates or wine kits offer an easy way for you to get started with your first batch of wine. Kits come with simple, easy-to-follow instruction that eliminate all of the guesswork.  Making wine is as simple as following a recipe and wine kits provide you with all of the ingredients you need, pre-measured and ready to use out right of the box. You’ve been to the local brew store or shopped online for wine kits and you have noticed that […]

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Troubleshooting Fermentation Problems

As we all know, fermentation is one of the critical stages of wine making. Without fermentation, it is impossible to create wine as the base process involves live organisms called yeast turning sugars into alcohol.  There may be times you may find that you have problems with the fermentation process. Usually, these problems will take the form of either fermentation that just does not occur at all (stuck) or else is too slow. One of the reasons that this may occur is that the temperature was either […]

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Tips for Making Wines With Grapes

As you contemplate the prospect of making your next batch of wine you will need to decide whether you want to use fruit, such as grapes, or packaged fruit juices. Packaged juices are known as concentrates and can be easily purchased online as well as in home brewing stores. There are many advantages to using concentrates, including the fact that they come with easy to follow directions and usually all of the extra ingredients you may need. Many novice winemakers feel that concentrates are a great introduction […]

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