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Originally Posted by CDSmith
I've made both wine and beer in the past. Never used a kit for wine, I always just bought or collected batches of fruit and used an old method to make it.
Boiled the fruit in a clean white pillow case for an hour, mashing it and then letting it cool.
Remove pillow case (and thus all the pulp), pour the warm liquid into the wort, add sugar (if needed)
Sprinkle champagne yeast on top, cover and let it ferment for a month to 6 weeks.
Clean (with finings), bottle it.
Always had great results. My brothers and other friends all used kits, my wine always kicked theirs asses.
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Just starting out I will try some kits at first, but I would definitely like to move into more "raw" techniques.
I own an acre of property south of the popular vineyard areas around Niagara in southern Ontario. I'd like to see how far I can take this and maybe grow my own grapevines as well. I am surrounded by farms and the soil seems to grow anything you put in it. This is all new to me, but sounds like a good hobby for sure.