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You can find simple instructions and tutorials anywhere on the internet to help you get into wine making. The process itself is not that difficult, just make sure when you find a recipe to follow it step-by-step.
As far as the fruit goes, you can actually use any fruit you want to flavor the wine. There are a variety of fruit recipes from pomegranate to peach to strawberry floating around that can help you get started. Here's a link to some recipes to help you out: http://www.homebrewit.com/recipes.
Basically the process of making wine comes down to this:
1. You will crush the raspberries (or whatever other fruit you choose to use) and put them in the primary fermenter. You will then add water, sugar nutrients, acid blend, pectic enzyme and campden tablets. Stir these well to dissolve the sugar and let the mixture sit overnight.
2. Next step is to add the yeast. The yeast is what will get the process started and turning into wine. The yeast feeds off the sugar and the byproduct is the alcohol. Let this mixture sit, while you continue to stir for a few days (about a week).
3. You will rack the wine at about three weeks. Racking the wine clears it of the sediment. You're recipe may call for additional sugar to be added and a continued fermenting and racking process if it is a sweeter wine. After this process is done you will bottle the wine.
4. Once bottled, the wine will need to age. This part can take anywhere from a couple month to a year. Check the recipe and go by that at first; after you get comfortable with the process you can start to experiment with aging to figure out the best taste for a specific recipe after a certain ageing period. Patience is going to be your best friend during this time, as there is nothing you can do but wait till the wine is ready.
That's about all there is too it. You will find the measurements and exact numbers for everything in your recipe, but generically speaking this is how you're wine making process will go. It will in total take anywhere from about two-three months to a year depending on the wine you are choosing to start with and what the recipe calls for.
Hope this helps you out! Best of luck!
As far as the fruit goes, you can actually use any fruit you want to flavor the wine. There are a variety of fruit recipes from pomegranate to peach to strawberry floating around that can help you get started. Here's a link to some recipes to help you out: http://www.homebrewit.com/recipes.
Basically the process of making wine comes down to this:
1. You will crush the raspberries (or whatever other fruit you choose to use) and put them in the primary fermenter. You will then add water, sugar nutrients, acid blend, pectic enzyme and campden tablets. Stir these well to dissolve the sugar and let the mixture sit overnight.
2. Next step is to add the yeast. The yeast is what will get the process started and turning into wine. The yeast feeds off the sugar and the byproduct is the alcohol. Let this mixture sit, while you continue to stir for a few days (about a week).
3. You will rack the wine at about three weeks. Racking the wine clears it of the sediment. You're recipe may call for additional sugar to be added and a continued fermenting and racking process if it is a sweeter wine. After this process is done you will bottle the wine.
4. Once bottled, the wine will need to age. This part can take anywhere from a couple month to a year. Check the recipe and go by that at first; after you get comfortable with the process you can start to experiment with aging to figure out the best taste for a specific recipe after a certain ageing period. Patience is going to be your best friend during this time, as there is nothing you can do but wait till the wine is ready.
That's about all there is too it. You will find the measurements and exact numbers for everything in your recipe, but generically speaking this is how you're wine making process will go. It will in total take anywhere from about two-three months to a year depending on the wine you are choosing to start with and what the recipe calls for.
Hope this helps you out! Best of luck!
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