How To Make Wine – Part 5

Items Needed: 1. 30 sanitized bottles. 2. Syphon tube. 3. Sanitizing solution. 4. 30 corks 5. Bottle corker (Often, the store where you purchased your kit will lend or rent a corker to you. You may want to consider purchasing a hand corker if you are going to make wine at home on a regular…

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Fining Agents – Bentonite

A question that seems to come up regularly on home winemaking bulletin boards, newsgroups and faq’s have to do with fining agents. A fining agent is something that is added to the wine at some point before bottling to help it clear. There are quite a number of differing fining agents – even egg whites…

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Fining Agents – Eggshell

A few years ago, I had some problems with a Mead I was making that wouldn’t clear. I had tried a few different fining agents but to no avail. In retrospect, I probably could have given it more time as I let the mead bulk age for another couple of years before bottling it but…

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How To Make Wine For Free? Part 1 – Equipment

I’ve seen a number of advertisements online suggesting that you can make wine for free. There are “experts” who apparently claim they can tell you how to make wine at no cost to yourself. Can you really do this? Well… yes and here’s how: First, let’s assume you have a vessel of some sort like…

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Degassing Wine

Most wine kit instructions do stress the importance of degassing wine. But they are usually pretty short on instructions. This article will fill in the details for you.

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