Fermentation And Homemade Wine Making

Juice you prepare is turned into wine during fermentation, and you have nothing to do with this process. The only part of the process you are responsible for is mixing some liquids that result in a superb flavor. The yeast does all the work turning the mixture into homemade wine.

It was most often common for brew masters to make their wines using baker's yeast and white sugar. No, on the other hand, people choose specialty wine yeast and use invert sugar. The resultant product had has a beautiful bouquet and less of the taste of a loaf of bread.

One benefit of using wine yeast over a common baker's yeast is a resulting higher percentage of alcohol in the finished product. Baker's yeasts tend to make wines with around twelve to fourteen percent alcohol by volume whereas wine yeast are able to produce wines with up to eighteen percent alcohol by volume.

Yeast is obtainable in the form of a compressed cake, dried tablet, and pellet or in powder form as a liquid culture, and all are inactive at the time of purchase. So when making wines, fermentation is seen as a slight frothing during the early stages and this soon settles down to a gentle ferment that may last as long as six months. But if warmth is given, fermentation should be over and done within half that time. All the time fermentation is going on; that is, all the time the yeast continues to reproduce itself, thus the amount of alcohol in the wine increases.

It can't go on forever because when maximum alcohol tolerance is reached, the alcohol formed kills yeast. From the tiny amount of yeast you add at the starter, masses of new yeast are made and all this helps to make alcohol until the last surviving generation of the yeast is finally destroyed by the alcohol.. At this stage, fermentation stops and no more alcohol is made.

The key stage is warmth. If your wine is too cool to soon and you bottle it, the bottle can become warm and start fermentation once again. Before you know it you'll have corks popping and wine spraying everywhere- that's a waste of good wine. So, make sure you keep it warm.