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    A to Z How to Make Wine at Home for Total Beginners
    A to Z How to Make Wine at Home for Total Beginners
    A to Z How to Make Wine at Home for Total Beginners
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    A to Z How to Make Wine at Home for Total Beginners

    By Lisa Bond

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    Whether you're a wine connoisseur or just someone who enjoys the occasional glass of wine, nothing tastes better than the wine you create yourself. Making wine at home really isn't as complicated as it seems, and in fact it doesn't cost a fortune either.

    How fantastic would it be to have your friends over for dinner and impress them with your homemade wine? Or even to come home at the end of a long work day and relax on the porch with a glass of wine made all by yourself?

    This book was written to provide you with step-by-step instructions to walk you through the entire process of making your own wine, from start to finish. From preparing the fruit, to perfecting the fermentation process, and to bottling, this book's got it covered. Also included also are delicious, tried and true recipes for several variations of both red and white wine that you can use to develop and hone your winemaking skills.

    So if you share a passion for wine and are ready to try your hand at making your own to impress and share with your friends and family, then download this book and let's get started!

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSB Books
    Release dateJul 27, 2017
    ISBN9781540147400
    A to Z How to Make Wine at Home for Total Beginners
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    Lisa Bond

    Lisa Bond lives with her husband and 4 children in Belmont, California. After 20 years in accounting, she decided to write about the little things in life that made her and her family very happy. She stopped analyzing spread sheets and profit and loss and began writing about her many hobbies such as making bath bombs, gardening, raising backyard chickens, bee keeping and many more topics in her vast collection of skill sets. Fortunately, she learned the skill of research at Smith College and she is always studying new things that help her and her family live a better life. Lisa loves sharing ideas with the world.

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      A to Z How to Make Wine at Home for Total Beginners - Lisa Bond

      A to Z How to Make Wine at Home for Total Beginners

      A practical step by step blueprint for homemade wine.

      Introduction

      Whether you're a wine connoisseur or just someone who enjoys the occasional glass of wine, nothing tastes better than the wine you create yourself. Making wine at home really isn't as complicated as it seems, and in fact it doesn't cost a fortune either.

      How fantastic would it be to have your friends over for dinner and impress them with your homemade wine? Or even to come home at the end of a long work day and relax on the porch with a glass of wine made all by yourself?

      This book was written to provide you with step-by-step instructions to walk you through the entire process of making your own wine, from start to finish. From preparing the fruit, to perfecting the fermentation process, and to bottling, this book's got it covered. Also included also are delicious, tried and true recipes for several variations of both red and white wine that you can use to develop and hone your winemaking skills.

      So if you share a passion for wine and are ready to try your hand at making your own to impress and share with your friends and family, then download this book and let's get started!

      Chapter 1.The Science Behind Winemaking

      Those who make their own wine will tell you how enjoyable it is to produce something using your own refined skills, but they will also be as quick to tell you that it also requires a lot of focus and work. If you are the sedentary type, who does not like to put a lot of effort into things, then you would be better off jumping in the car and making your way down to a store whenever you want to enjoy a bottle of wine. While winemaking isn't backbreaking, tedious work, it still requires a good deal of effort on your part.

      When making wine, there are three very important factors of which you will need to constantly be aware:

      1. Oxygen

      2. Cleanliness

      3. Temperature

      These three areas are not only important, they are vital and the key to your success. Ignore them and you will fail. In fact, there is no such thing as focusing on them too much. They are each that important, with each being as important as the other. Forget about the importance of just one of these factors and your wine and your time will be wasted. Enough said.

      Oxygen

      Oxygen has its good and bad points. On the good side, it's a necessary part of the winemaking process. On the bad side, it can quickly destroy all of your efforts, if it shows up when it shouldn't. Ironically, in the winemaking process, you need it in the beginning and you fear it in the end. Oxygen will be covered in more detail later in the Getting Started section.

      Cleanliness

      The presence of certain, helpful microbes are partially responsible for the winemaking process just as the presence of other types of microbes can spoil it. Keeping everything as clean as possible is crucial for making fresh, clean, great-tasting wine. Slack off in your cleaning efforts and the batch becomes tainted with filth. The thing to remember about microorganisms—just because you can't see them doesn't mean that they aren't there.

      If you do things correctly, you should be spending almost half of your total invested time cleaning. But it isn't just about cleaning, it's about sanitizing and sterilizing, too. And yes, there is a big difference between cleaning, sanitizing and sterilizing.

      Cleaning: Removing surface dirt and contaminants.

      Sanitizing: A deeper level of cleaning, generally using a cleaning compound, which removes a significant portion of microscopic bacteria.

      Sterilizing: The deepest level of cleaning using heat, which completely removes the rest of the bacteria and growth left behind after sanitizing.

      Most people sanitize by soaking items in a cleaning solution. Be wary of bleach. If bleach comes in contact with the wrong parts, it creates an environment for harmful molds to form.

      When people sterilize, they typically use intense heat, roughly around 250-300 degrees Fahrenheit. It has to literally cook the bacteria and contamination to death. If everything isn't sufficiently destroyed, the item cannot be considered sterilized.

      To sum it up:

      Cleaning removes dirt, sanitizing removes some bacteria, sterilizing removes everything.

      From beginning to end, cleaning and sanitizing needs to be an integral part of the entire winemaking process. If grapes, ingredients or the finished product touches anything, it should be a clean and sanitized area. Sterilization is also good, but does not need to be done as often as cleaning and sanitizing.

      A common mistake made by novice winemakers is they try to judge the cleanliness of a component or a surface simply by looking at it. This is never going to be effective enough to determine how clean something is. A surface can sparkle and be literally crawling with bacteria. Never guess how clean something is: be sure

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