make me a wino!

[vwboomer]

I've got a trellis full of grapes that some lady was gonna come pick like 2 weeks ago. I imagine it's gettin to be danger-go time before they rot. So make the beast with two backs it. I will make wine.
Anyone got an easy recipe? I think they're concorde. They're purple anyway. I've got a 15 gallon and 10 gallon stainless pot as well as 4or 5 carboys varying between 5 and 6.5 gallons.
Guy at work said he uses 2 quarts of grapes, 4 lbs of sugar and some boiling water. seems like that might water it down but what do I know.
Picking tomorrow if it's not raining.

[vwboomer]

Yep they are slip skin and apparently not ideal. However, they're free, I'm cheap, and I don't even like wine so I may as well see what happens

I ended up with about 6 gallons of pulp. Could have gotten more but I got sick of picking them, and I damn sure got sick of pulling em off the bunches.
I'll dump yeast nutrient into some water and let er rip with whatever yeast I've got layin around.

[Pedro-bot]

Pics or it didn't happen. 

[vwboomer]

Very well!


10 gallon pot. I heated up 3ish gallons of water near boiling, dumped in all the corn sugar I had laying around and added it to the grape mash. Since I couldn't find my  potassium metabisulfate I figured pasteurizing it would be a good idea. I should have sanitized my immersion chiller to speed the process, but I'll just wait til I get home from work to add the yeast.

I'll also see if my refractometer reads high enough to take a measurement otherwise I'll just use my hydrometer.

[vwboomer]

aw man I was only at 16 brix
I put another 8 oz of corn sugar in after work and am currently emptying my honey supply. I've had a gallon of honey for about 4 years now. delish!
Still, if it turns out like piss it didn't cost me a dime out of pocket 

[vwboomer]

Transferred into a carboy today. It was too much for that, but not enough to bother with another carboy so I used some bottles.


I'll let it settle out for a week and rack it into another carboy.
btw the honey I used was from an orchard.

[Rob Hilding]

[Buckethead]

Adding Busch Light to your grape mash will make it taste like undiluted ass.

Just sayin.

[Fresh Pants]

ha ha ha, "with nice wood". 

I'm so mature.