Wine Making at Home: Starting a Wine Kit 

Easy to understand and you cover the important steps. I'm doing Pino Grigio for the first time.

Thanks for your very interesting post, here are some more tips for how to make wine…Use the right equipment. Things like plastic buckets and bins come in different grades of plastic. You must use the food-grade plastic products not the cheaper buckets you might use to clean the floor!If plastic buckets and bins start getting scratched and grazed, replace them. The grazes will start harbouring microbes and eventually you’ll have a spoilt batch of wine.If stirring the must (the initial mix of fruit and water etc.) in a bin, scald the spoon with boiling water first to quickly sterilise it.Fill and top up airlocks with cooled, boiled water - never straight from the sink.Avoid metal spoons and sieves with fermenting wine - i.e. after the yeast has been added. Sometimes they can taint the wine. Avoid wooden spoons, which are hard to sterilise - plastic is far better.Reusing wine bottles is fine, ask friends to save them for you and check with local pubs or restaurants who are often willing to give them to you. Wash out immediately as a clean bottle will be a lot easier to sterilise when you come to use them.Rack your wine to clear it before bottling. That is, using a syphon tube, suck up the wine from one demijohn into another leaving the sediment (called lees) behind. The tubes with a base and valve are cheap enough and a make this easier. Allow the wine to settle for a week and repeat if necessary before bottlingNever judge your wine by the taste as you bottle it. Most often you will think it's a disaster. Some wines can take 2 years to mature. As a general rule, try a bottle after six months. If it tastes harsh, leave the rest for at least another 5 or 6 months.Allow time. Time is the great wine maker and you should never be in a rush. We’ve made wine that was 9 months in the demijohn before bottling and drunk it 3 years later. The next year it was even better!(I discovered these and why they work from Pavas grape plan site ) have spent months studying home wine making and discovered a great website at Pavas grape plan (google it if you're interested)

Thank you for a great video,you made it so easy to follow for a beginner.

Subbed and liked. This is probably one of the most detailed diy brewing videos i have seen on youtube. Great work.

Fantastic video. Thanks for giving me the confidence to try this. Cheers,

Good video, thanks for making it! Adding Oak: I like to hold back on adding the oak until the start of the secondary fermentation, this lets the wine spend much more time (months) in contact with the oak which I feel contributes to a much better flavor. For years I followed the directions and added the Oak at the start and then wondered why the oak flavor was so muted, I eventually realized that the oak was getting thrown out with the old yeast at the first racking when I transferred the wine to the secondary fermenter.

He was checking the OG (original gravity) of the must. This indicated the amount of fermentable sugars in solution. After fermentation you will check your FG (final gravity) which will indicate how much sugar the yeast ate and provide you with the alcohol by volume (ABV).

Good video. I've been making wine for about 8 or 9 years now. Your tips will help many people. Sub'd and liked!! AND your video is good 11 years later too.

Great video. Thanks!

Very informative thank you.

Amazing how to make wine tasting so much 😋

I’m loved it!!!

Great information!!

This guy's great.

Thanks for the video

Nice thanks!

Nice video. Keep safe always🙏 more videos to watch🐟😊

Thank you for the great video. One quick question: I live in South Florida and I keep my house at 76 degrees. Is that an acceptable temperature. My porch and garage consistenly reach 100 degrees, so indoors in the A/C is the only place I would be able to do this.

Very good

I was thinking about starting up.

"Just gently stir..." *creates vortex to the bacchanalian dimension*

Him: "The smell of this wine juice. Gorgeous" Me as an alcoholic: "Yes"

Thanks for the video! Very clear instructions, and definitely took the fear factor away for me :)

Five gallons (UK) is a lot of wine. Luckily, once bottled it lasts for years! Here in UK you can get 1 gallon kits which tend to be a bit more manageable (and significantly less hassle to hump about the joint, if you're old and feeble like me!) They all taste great though.

I have big question, I started the wine kit in the 10th day is finished the fermentation because I have it too on my table closed to the head, my gravity shows 1.000. Can I put the kieselsol. Potassium sorbate. And potassium metabisulfite now? Or I need to wait couple weeks??? Thanks for your videos I enjoy them greetings from Canada

I just got a bootleg half kit, lowkey so excited to make wine

Hi, I have a small question.... I bought my father a kit about 10 years ago and he never touched it. I'm thinking now I;ll give it a shot. My question is, will the concentration still be ok? it was stored in my basement where the temp between 40-70 degrees. I'd be much appreciate ,if someone can help out, and I waste time, and should go get new concentrate. Thanks

It's all good

Can you add more sugar to give you more alcohol proof

great .. thank you for this.. do you have instructions for sterilizing equipment being used?

Where can I find this kit?

Im growing Valiant grapes to make wine. What type of yeast should I get

Clean and sanitize the same way for beer, pbw and Star San?

Won’t the wood chips ferment and create methanol? Just wondering. Also the grape juice. It’s just pure grape juice. No sugars added or anything else other than the juice and is that juice same as grape juice same as store bought juice?

You should do a video on how to brew strawberry wine!

Thanks for the info Kyle, I wished I would have watched this last weekend before I did the same kit. Coulda used my new wand :P I learned a bit more, like I need another big bucket damn it!

Is there a specific sanitizing solution we should use that won't ruin the wine?

Didn't know Jerry Gergich made wine! :P Great video.

Plz tell me what was the chemical name of fining agent you used prior to add juice? Thanks

I use an old pump off a refrigerator to degas mine. works great, nice and quiet and can pick them up for free.

how come this video sais add finings straight away but the kit i purchased reads add wine finings after 2 days

BRING BACK BREWING TV!

Fantastic video, where can I buy the plastic stirrer?

What is the name of the wine kit you're using

In the summer the AC is set to 78 here, is that too warm to brew wine? Thanks for the video.

"The cardboard is perfectly cut out for you they've thought of everything!" Casually skips the part where he butchers the cardboard. 😂 all joking aside, great video!

Hmmmm... You've got me close to ordering one of these. It might win me some points with the wife.

correct me if im wrong but you added oak chips to the fermenter. doesnt that cause yeast to produce metanol which can blind a person?

I would like to use them box kits but I don't know what kind to buy! I dont know my wines. I like sweet non dey cheap wine like boone farms wine lol. I used to drink Wild Irish Rose and Mad dog 20/20. That is the farthest my wine palate goes, any suggestions?

Where do I get these products? Thank you.

It’s just a box of wine that you have to wait to drink, no mashing fruit?

How do I order a kit and all the TOOLS stirrer email address

what is the average price for a juice bag kit without the tools?

where do you buy a air lock

What liquid goes into the airlock?

This is good information . I ordered Lodi Ranch 11 cabernet sauvignon California red wine kit from Winexpert for $179, after I got it and from their label information, it added 10 wt% sugar in this juice , but California state prohibits chaptalization (no sugar added). I will not buy any from this company.

what keeps the wine in the package from fermenting if it's not frozen?

Make sure you wear all white! "What'll be hmmm!" 🤣🤣

No yeast nutrient??

5-7 days fermenting ? Are you guys sure?

Oak chips? Looks like dust to me. I’m so on the fence of buying a wine kit. I make apple, strawberry, and pear wines. Always with fresh fruit. I don’t see how a wine kit would save me time or money.

This is really nice but this video was long ago. Lol what would people recommend now in 2023??? I'm trying to get this going want to learn and save $$$

I wouldn’t use a metal spoon to stir in a plastic bucket. Scores the surface...

You can poke a hole in an applesauce and leave it in the fridge. It will wine

Wine juice? Grape juice before it’s fermented

Pover tools? really? :D I used 6 kilograms of berries, 6,5 kilograms of sugar and mixed everything by hand to know the temperature. Worcked out pretty well. There it is... my wine.. brewing up :) I did not have a temperature mesurer arounda t that time and i use pure ingredients, instead of ready made juices. Its going to be yummy summer featured with berry wine.

2:17 he says when we openedded. Funny.

How to make wine at home: pour box wine in bucket. You’re welcome.

Kill the ads you already got the sale.

you didnt disinfect the bucket!? or the tools ........ what_?

Make sure you get your hands all over the juice...

It’s illegal to buy wine if you’re below 21, but buying all the stuff to make it isn’t

Japanese can not make a alcohol for legal

I don't use alcohol or drink other related drinks like caffeinated. I avoid acid too. I'm a 26 year old female but it's not from my culture. I would probably use it as plant fertilizer or something with flowers . But Im not sure why people drink it.

Dripping down finger , spit flying as talking over it, don't know how I got T.B. 😁 ?

nothing about sanitizing.

How do you make chicken whiskey All I know is like seagull wine you put meat in bottle and fill with water put out in sun Let ferment do you add anything

if you're making wine from a kit it's almost impossible to mess up add water before bentonite (you don't need to) add the juice, then yeast allow to ferment! red wine 8-10 days, white 10-12 days fermentation is the most important part. after, add all the component packs at the same time. it won't make any difference. let sit for a week or two (rack a week later or wait two weeks and filter) BOOM. you're done. you do not need to "baby" wine from kits.

Bentinite is Not a fining agent !

Life is too short to drink wine kit. enjoy the real Italian wine

Jesus turn water in to wine...by God I turned wine into liquor..(Popcorn Sutton)

As a wine maker you lost me at water

:56 is dude already drunk? 😂

No offense taken at all.

you lost me when you said "openeded it".. sorry.

Kit wine = shit wine

Are you crazy!?!?! WHAT A SHAME! I'm an Italian wine producer and this shit you are preparing on the video, it's not BAROLO, it's not wine at all! All of you reading what I'm writing PAY ATTENTION of what you're buying!

Good enough for low standard people.

that's not wine, that's shit!

Oh my god... and you call this shit wine? ahahahah ma che cazzo bevete merda liquida?

Behold gentlemen the death of wine. Millennia of tradition boiled down to a cardboard box with concentrated juice, wood chips and cat litter (aka bentonite)

you need to stop putting chemicals in your homemade wine

Mystified does not equal fear