Easy Homemade Wine 🍇

In this video i show you how to take a bottle of Welch's Grape juice and turn it into Wine. It's that simple, I hope you enjoy it!

Alcohol content 13-15% ABV

Juice to Wine Readings:
1.76 OG, 10%, 19brix
1.5 oz x 5 = 7.5 oz of sugar dry 1.096
FG 13% ABV

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[rayberlin]

Making basic good wine can be a simple process. This is a great way to start!

[thegooddoctor]

I grew up in a big family in the 1960's. As a family tradition, we would make wine starting on Thanksgiving and drink it for Christmas. We would use a similar process using Wyler's Grape Juice, but we would stretch a large balloon over the spout to allow gas to escape. The balloon would fill up with CO2 as it fermented. Oh we were between 8 and 14 years old at the time. Christmas was always magical...

[lawnjenkins]

Another trick is to put a balloon on it instead of a top. The balloon will fill with air and when the air leaves, you'll know it's ready. Great channel!

[barbaramatthews]

What I like most about your video was that you didn't over-complicate things. A lot of YouTubers get fussy with wine making saying you need a bunch of equipment and other stuff. I can see myself actually trying your method.

[trotter]

You can drink the goop at the bottom, it would be full of vitamins and minerals and contains some good amounts of vitamin b12. It would taste a bit gritty and would give you wicked bad farts but it is not bad for you. Also you could wash the lees and use them to cultivate a strain of yeast that you could use again for the same brew (welches grape juice) and you would get a stronger wine with more complex notes because the yeast will have adap[ted to that environment and will help create a superior wine

[fredbecker]

Making balloon wine in the dorm room closet helped me drink my way out of college.

[omearica-rcfp]

This gives new meaning to the term "cheap wine", but I shop at thrift stores and am all for that.

[deonnadaniels]

My mind is totally blown 🤯! Gardener, canner, and soon to be wine maker! my garden family is the Best! Thank you sooo much!💗

[sarahwebster]

Your video contains the most concise and straightforward instructions. I've watched 11 diy winemaking and at the conclusion of your post, I made my first batch. Thank you!

[graphnox]

Thank u.. my girl passed in Nov.. she used to do this with lemonade.. but I never learned her process.. this means alot to me

[xoler_]

Fleischmann's yeast and straining your wine through cheese cloth will remove all traces of the yeast because you risk your wine turning into vinegar instead of a good aged wine.

[Krow]

On day 10 my self, can’t wait! Thanks for showing the progress it really helps getting an idea of what it should look like after the initial ferment settled down

[mwmcbroom]

I've enjoyed watching you making your DIY Welch's wine. The first time I ever tried doing it myself, I pretty much exactly followed your process, except I siphoned off the wine into clean bottles. More recently, I bought some wine yeast for cheap online, and the last couple of times I've used this same process as yours, I've used the wine yeast. I don't really think there's much of a difference. I've read some folks say that bread yeast won't work because the alcohol kills off the yeast and you wind up with a wine that barely has any alcohol content. I don't believe this to be true, simply because I got a little loopy after drinking a couple of glasses of my bread yeast wine.

One option I tried that you might also want to try is to use the natural wild yeast that collects on grapes. What I did was, I started out with the Welch's grape juice and added sugar, but instead of wine or bread yeast, I crushed up about 20 to 25 grapes until they were like a slush. I did NOT wash the grapes first because washing them would have removed the wild yeast. So then I strained the slush so that only grape juice, hopefully full of wild yeasties, entered the bottle. Then capped it and waited, same as before. You see, I wasn't sure that this would even work. So after a few days, when I loosened the cap, I was rewarded with a woosh! and a slight yeastie fragrance. Yes! My experiment was working. So, I watched the wine's fermentation go to completion, which was a little longer -- maybe 3 or 4 weeks. Decanted it and wow! It tasted very sophisticated, like a good burgundy, and packed a pretty good punch.

My most recent fermentation, which I started only a couple days ago, actually has a mix of wine yeast and wild yeast that was introduced via crushed grape juice. I've also tried some different sugar. It's Mexican -- turbinado, it's called, and it is a pale blonde color with a decided caramel aroma. So I think this might be an interesting combination. Maybe I'll check back in and let you know how it comes out after it's run its course.

[michaelcarson]

Great stuff straight to the point. I'm ready to start my journey to wine making thanks.

[peterhook]

Way cool you showed the nuts and bolts and took out the fancy. The fancy is nice, sure however taking the tech out of it shows everyone how to be more independent and enjoy crafting something. Great video bro.

[omearica-rcfp]

You know, I started watching your video because I thought this might be fun to do. I actually got busy with other things, came back and watched again, not because I wanted more information (you did a pretty good job of explaining) but because I haven't heard such beautiful music in such a long time. I didn't realize how much I love good music until now. Thank you for that. Such a nice change from all the other videos on Youtube, yours wins the most appropriate, relaxing, and wonder music of all.

[raizab.]

I had a smaller bottle of grape juice and used 1/2 pack of Kroger yeast. It started pretty quick and mine became a mess like your SAF and if I hadn't watched your video I might have thought it was a fail so thanks for this video. I have an apple juice going right now that didn't bubble over so I guess it depends. Fun experimenting and learning.

[jmjlori]

I have used this method for the past year, since I live in a dry county, and getting wine is a bit difficult. Thanks so much!!

[kennethbunn]

I just saw this I see it was done two years ago. I was going to also talk about the balloon and I use that red star I haven't done this in about five eight years. What I found was a recipe for doing it with frozen grape concentrate it may be cheaper than that juice. It comes in different flavors I told some people about it in the store at every time I came back from the grape juice they were sold out after that. That what I want to try to do is to do it in 5 gal jugs another thing I saw was different was the fact that you didn't melt the yeast I was taught on that one recipe with the frozen concentrate is to melt the yeast with warm water. And then pour it in it looks like sour mash.

[johnlockwood]

I just tried your technique with grape white grape and apple juices. Didn’t have the oz size you did just the 64oz. The leftovers from each bottle I combined to try as well with half the sugar and yeast. After an hour I see it working so I’m excited to see a week go by.