How to Make Wine From a Wine Kit. – Part 1
www.benshomebrew.com or www.homebrewjunkie.com For tips and tricks go to homebrewjunkie.com, for products check out benshomebrew.com Part one covers how to boost alcohol in with your homemade wine kits,sanitizing equipment, adding additives, using 28″ spoon. Empty contents of wine kit out. Contents include wine yeast, bentonite, sodium metabisulphite, isinglass and potassium sorbate. Fill 6.5 gallon carboy with 2 gallons of warm water, and add the bentonite. Stir carefully. When dissolved uncap wine juice from bag and add wine concentrate to 6.5 gallon primary fermenting carboy. Add additional corn sugar to boost the alcohol and top off with the remaining water in order to achieve 6 gallons total volume.
25 Responses to How to Make Wine From a Wine Kit. – Part 1
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@Adol666
Yes you do you nonce
405OklahomaBrewing
January 3, 2012 at 9:47 am
@405OklahomaBrewing Wrong. You dont have to rinse star san. its a no rinse sanitizer. In fact that defeats the purpose of using a no rinse Sanitizer
Adol666
January 3, 2012 at 9:55 am
Good video, but starsand you have to rinse, one step and easy clean you dont need to rinse
405OklahomaBrewing
January 3, 2012 at 10:26 am
@bratmassakern
No, the sanitizer will be diluted so much that it won’t be effective.
benshomebrew
January 3, 2012 at 10:50 am
wont the sanitaser kill the yeast? :/
bratmassakern
January 3, 2012 at 11:20 am
Instead of the sugar you could just make a little over 5 gals of wine and that would boost the alcohol and not make the wine watered down. A better way is to put in all juice concentrate and top up with water until the hydrometer reads the correct reading for 12.5% alcohol. If you follow this you will never have watery or weak wine. The only drawback is you will have a little less wine.
anthony0803
January 3, 2012 at 12:05 pm
yeah, corn sugar…boast that alcohol!!!
WineMakingToday
January 3, 2012 at 12:34 pm
@fark337 well…..maybe, of course pretty much all you can get in canned is concord, and it’s cheaper….and I only have three gallon carboys so that’s what I have stuck with as far as grape juice goes. If you ever in TN give me a holler and you can test the quality.
palehorse5
January 3, 2012 at 1:18 pm
@palehorse5 the juice in the kits are probly alot higher quality for making wine than canned juices
fark337
January 3, 2012 at 1:32 pm
Gregga,
It’s bentonite. It comes in the wine making kits and I don’t think it’s necessary for all wine making, just for the wine kits.
benshomebrew
January 3, 2012 at 2:10 pm
Gregga,
I’m using a concentrate wine kit grape juice that’s made for 6 gallon batches.
If you’re using welches or anything like that I think it’s 2 or 3 cans per gallon. I’m not sure though because I’ve never made it that way. However, just use your hydrometer to measure the sugar content and get it to where you want it for alcohol content and go from there.
benshomebrew
January 3, 2012 at 2:50 pm
Ben also wondering you use 2 gallons of water, what approximately is the amount of juice your using? Can you use a grape juice and what it be the same ration? Looks like 2 gallons water to 2 gallons juice? Thanks!
gregga17
January 3, 2012 at 3:25 pm
What is the 1st package you add to the warm water in the beginning? Thanks, Good Video!
gregga17
January 3, 2012 at 3:49 pm
get grape juice frozen concentrate from kroger..approx 4 of them to a gallon jug then top off with water and yeast, it’s the exact same thing.
palehorse5
January 3, 2012 at 3:59 pm
Hi porkchopz.. I made wine from pure juice the first 4 years I made wine. It’s plentiful here in the Niagara area. All of my attempts failed except one. I then tried a wine kit. I am now on my 100th kit and not one failure. Family members request it at family functions, they all love it. One good thing is you and I both like making wine and that’s the good thing. Don’t give up on wine kits, give it another try, you’ll be surprised.
chrisnotap
January 3, 2012 at 4:44 pm
You can get wine juice from California. But it’s seasonal. For those who don’t or can’t get the seasonal wine juice, the kits are their next best option.
benshomebrew
January 3, 2012 at 5:25 pm
The sanitized used is a No Rinse sanitizer and it actually breaks down in the must and aids as a yeast nutrient for the yeast.
Also, the kit made in the video is a wine “beverage”, it has juice as a base, but it’s not as high in alcohol.
The wine kits you are probably making aren’t the wine based kits, there are plenty of other wine kits that do come in at 11-12%, but not the Island mist or Orchard Breezin’ kits.
benshomebrew
January 3, 2012 at 5:34 pm
Wine kits are terrible and more complicated than making real wine. Wine is not made properly by adding water and chemicals. The only thing you need is the wine grapes crushed and yeast added, let ferment, then rack off yeast, then rack into bottles. I know not everyone has grape’s available for wine, but you can get high quaility wine juice from places like california ordered in that has no water added or chemicals. That is what wine kits are just the wine juice but water added = garbage
porkchoperz
January 3, 2012 at 6:27 pm
A few things I noticed. When you sterilised the funnel you let the solution drip into the container and didn’t rinse. That could prevent the yeast from working properly. Secondly, all wine kits will make wine that is 11-12% alcohol. If it doesn’t then it’s not wine. You shouldn’t need to add sugar to bring it up to this alcohol level. I have been making wine from kits for 12 years and they are consistently at 11-12%.
chrisnotap
January 3, 2012 at 7:09 pm
You can use almost any kind of fruit. Bakers yeast will work but I don’t know the alcohol tolerance of it. I highly recommend wine yeast if you can get your hands on some.
benshomebrew
January 3, 2012 at 7:35 pm
hey wat type of fruit can u use and i can only buy bakers yeast is that bad thanks for posting 5 stars
bowmasterpigo13
January 3, 2012 at 8:03 pm
I bet many of them do use all of the above. They most certainly use chemicals a.k.a. Sulphite in their wines; that’s FDA required. And I know many of the east coast wineries have to add sugar to their wines because the grapes don’t yield enough sugars for a 12% wine. Crazy, but true.
benshomebrew
January 3, 2012 at 8:53 pm
Wow, do pro winemakers really add clay, corn sugar and chemicals like this, or is that just a necessity of these small kits? I thought wine could be made just by fermenting the crushed grapes, no?
BazBuzinkum
January 3, 2012 at 9:02 pm
thats not sugar.. its coke..
thehyper
January 3, 2012 at 9:53 pm
I’m sorry, I don’t do international shipments.
benshomebrew
January 3, 2012 at 10:39 pm