How is wine made?

Brewing wine can be simple or complicated. If it's simple, just buy some grapes, juice them, add sugar and ferment them. After one month, the wine will be cooked, filtered and bottled, and you can drink it. If it is complicated, it will become a professional course in the wine brewing industry. Some people have been studying all their lives, but they can never make a good bottle of wine.

It is no exaggeration to say that good wine is a gift from the sky. Good wine is determined by good raw materials. In France, the origin of grapes is very detailed. Although barren land can also grow grapes suitable for wine making, the land in the valley area is the natural guarantee for brewing good wine. From this perspective, the possibility of making your own wine is not very high.

Wine brewing, from peeling, separation to juicing, including picking grapes from trees by hand, is just the beginning of wine brewing. The process of adding yeast to ferment is amazing, which is also the most important step to produce different flavors. At the same time, there are physical effects such as filtration before, of course. If it is homemade, it is not so particular. Maybe you just want to enjoy your own brewing process, but you must pay attention to disinfection! In the general industrial brewing process, sulfur dioxide will be added for disinfection. Yes, it's the kind of gas that smells like rotten eggs described in middle school chemistry textbooks. Pay attention to control, but add enough at a time. This scale is a bit difficult to grasp.

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Step 1: Selection of fruit materials

There are too many varieties of grapes that can be used to make red wine. Cabernet Sauvignon, Cabernet Franc, Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Jiali Brewing, Black Pi Nuo) ....................................................................................................................................... Fruit stalks contain more tannins, which will make your wine astringent if fermented.

Step 2: Prepare the container.

DIY wine fermentation tank, you can choose glass and ceramic utensils. Large glass bottles are the first choice for DIY families of red wine, which are easy to seal.

Step 3: Mash the grapes and add sugar.

Wrap the cleaned grapes with clean double gauze, mash the grapes, and put the juice into the fermentation tank. Pay attention to leave a space of 1/4 to 1/3 for the container. Add sugar according to the ratio of grape to sugar is 10:2 or 10:3.

Step 4: sealed fermentation.

Seal your fermented wine jar or bottle. Put the fermentation tank in an environment of about 30 degrees Celsius for fermentation. In professional brewing, the control of fermentation temperature and fermentation time directly affects the style of wine. As a DIY family, you can make a red wine post-it note to record the fermentation time for reference and adjustment in the next DIY.

Step 5: filter the wine dregs and continue brewing.

Usually, after a week of sealed fermentation, you can open the container and smell it. At this time, the wine will overflow and the grape skin will float on the wine. After filtering out the wine dregs, you can add some white wine and sugar as appropriate according to your own requirements for alcohol and sweetness, and then enter the second fermentation after stirring. At this time, the container should be stored in a cool and ventilated place.

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15 days-20 days later, your DIY red wine will be finished.

The winemaker suggested:

With good equipment, good grapes, good technology and enough patience, you will fully understand the meaning of "failure is the mother of success"!

Tequila must be coarse and fine.

Since tequila was originally a local wine brewed by the Aztecs in Mexico, we thought maybe tequila was the entry wine for you to become a winemaker. At that time, the Aztecs brewed Pulque (a kind of tequila) from a local plant called Mezcal. When the Spaniards came to Mexico, they brought distillation technology to America, and then tequila was produced.

The main problem we are facing now is the problem of raw materials. The Mexican government has made it clear that the wine brewed by blue gave, a tequila town in Jalisco, can only be called tequila. Therefore, all tequila is tequila, but not all tequila can be called tequila. The laws in this area are similar to the protection of champagne in France.

The main raw material for brewing tequila is the rhizome of this plant (it looks like a pineapple). The sugar in the roots is extracted, fermented, distilled, and then aged in wooden barrels, which is the finished product of tequila. It sounds simple, but before fermentation, there is a cooking process of agave, which requires the technical skills of winemakers. It needs to continuously cook agave roots at 60 degrees Celsius within 50-72 hours, otherwise it will be burnt or unable to extract sugar, and the raw materials will be wasted-only 7 kilograms of agave can be extracted 1 kg of tequila!

The winemaker suggested:

If you are in Mexico, anything is possible!

Champagne zhi wo ai handmade

Champagne is luxurious mainly because it is all handmade. Just like aston martin, people say, "Every part of me is polished by hand!" ; Some champagne brands can also say, "I even let artists blow their own bottles." Anything with the word "manual" will be precious, especially in today's flood of assembly line products.

The brewing method of champagne is universally applicable. If you don't have grapes from this land of champagne, you must have some high-quality grapes from France. The most important thing, the so-called secondary fermentation of champagne brewing, must be done by hand, and the most important step is to shake the bottle: stand in front of the wooden frame, loosen your elbow like a pianist preparing to play a concerto, and then step forward and shake one bottle after another with your hands. Shake each bottle three times, and the bottle turns 1/8 weeks ... It sounds quite artistic, so it really started, and the money for getting a fitness card can be saved this year.

Another difficulty in brewing champagne is the blending of champagne essence. You can mix wine according to any taste you like. As for whether you can get others' approval, it depends on your psychological endurance. Anyway, studying abroad for about a year, getting a professional certificate, and then practicing for 89 years will be competent.

The winemaker suggested:

Don't waste time, it's cheaper to buy a fitness card to exercise.

Five elements of whisky

In the eyes of Celts, whisky is their "water of life", but in the eyes of masters who really enjoy drinking, buy wine as a collection and brew as an emotional appeal, whisky is actually barley distilled liquor.

Distillation is the most important step to produce taste difference in whisky brewing. If the production process of whisky is divided according to the five elements of gold, water, fire, earth and wood, then the distillation process is "gold" Each whisky factory has its own distillation furnace with different shapes. Sometimes these distillation furnaces make people feel a bit like the legendary magic workshop of Celtic elves and monsters. Although whisky does come from the people, these various appearances make us think that perhaps whisky, like vodka, was invented by a group of fortune tellers. Whisky ovens are as varied as test tubes in the laboratory: some are sharp, some are thick, and the closer to the top, the purer the wine. If you are trying to brew whisky, and you want your whisky to express "only extract the purest and least amount of alcohol" like Granger single malt whisky, then you have to build the highest distillation furnace in Scotland.

In addition, wine-making is of course inseparable from good water. Scotch whisky is soft water-only water with low hardness can make good wine. This standard is subject to the public. From the perspective of China's Five Elements, Jin Mu has mutual tides and flows, so we start with gold and end with wood when brewing whisky. The so-called wood refers to the maturity of whisky. This step is the most exquisite and mysterious step in the process of whisky brewing, and it is also the most innovative and breakthrough step for many winemakers. Here, we have to pay tribute to the famous winemaker Bill Lumsden, who brought the concept of wine ripening into the process of whisky ripening, and used sherry barrels and Potter barrels to ripen wine for the first time, enriching the taste and color of wine. Incidentally, whisky is transparent before it matures, so it is no different from alcohol.

The winemaker suggested:

Personal brewing is seriously unreliable, so it is better to be a drinking buddy.

Beer workshop industry

Want to brew your own beer? Then you must first be a good citizen who abides by the beer law. German beer law stipulates that the raw materials for brewing beer can only be barley malt, water, yeast and hops. This rigid rule is a stumbling block to some innovations, but it is also an attitude guarantee for brewing excellent beer.

When it comes to beer brewing technology, it is not so complicated. Barley must be made into wort, and then yeast will play its magical role. The magical effect is directly related to the temperature. The slight deviation of temperature during fermentation may have a great influence on the taste of beer. Another point is that in the final disinfection process of mechanized batch production of beer, the macromolecular components in beer will be filtered by membrane filtration. Although this process removes bacteria, it also removes some protein, which may make the taste of beer more personalized. If you brew your own beer, you can drink "full flavor" beer without "sterilization" to ensure the original flavor. This is the whole meaning of home-brewed beer!

The winemaker suggested:

Individuals can definitely buy a set of equipment and work together.