Wine Making

You cannot make wine without some kind of fruit and the popularity of fruit wine making available gives everyone a chance to find their favorite. Fruit wine making has been going on for centuries and every secret recipe and awesome family concoction has some very basic elements to it. It is the changing of these elements that brings out the real variety in fruit wine making and can make one wine taste better than another. Every fruit wine making recipe needs fruit first and foremost. After that you need sugar to add alcohol during fermentation. Without sugar there is no wine so make sure you understand how to add the right amounts of sugar to get the desired result you are looking for. Many winemaking suppliers offer a chart that can tell you how much sugar to add for certain alcohol contents. Make sure you also invest in equipment that can keep track of the alcohol level during fermentation for you as well. Too much alcohol is a bad thing.

In fruit wine making you not only need the juice of the fruit but you also need the skin and pulp as well. The skin and pulp is referred to as must and every wine needs the correct amount of fruit to ferment properly. Just like sugar there is no wine without fruit skin and pulp. After you have created your mixture of juice and sugar another key ingredient is water. How warm or cold you make the water depends on what you want the yeast to do during fermentation. The whole idea behind water temperature is usually a well-kept secret among wine makers. During fermentation a wine maker has to keep an eye on the yeast being used and many wine makers prefer to remove the natural yeast that many fruits have and put their own yeast combination in to get their own desired results. Fruit wine making is like an art and a science together and people that are very good at it have years of experience.