I have a lot of white grapes this year and would like to try making some wine. HOw can I extract the juice without a press?
Any help wouth be appreciated.
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Wine making....help please!
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In the past we have used large sand bags, or potato sacks, fill them up mush them in a large bucket and pour out the juice into a demi.
If you have kids, fill a paddling pool and get them to mush them up up with their feet, they will love the fresh grape juice too
Grapes are so easy to work with compared to apples or pears.
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+! for the potatoe masher, good idea for the potatoe sack although what about sack particals? Putting some blackberry wine on the go tonight. Drunken winter nights. Hmmm
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Thanks guys, graet idea.
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woodsa - Member
+! for the potatoe masher, good idea for the potatoe sack although what about sack particals?
We just bung them in the washing machine before hand and the pulp goes in the compost(don't tell the Mrs).
I have never had much luck making wine with white grapes here in the UK, saying that my Red wine varies madly from year to year
Just finished sacking my last batch of grapes this weekend, grapes were very sweet this year, got 15 demi's on the bubble, so fingers crossed, might be a good year?
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Have you checked to see if your local Homebrew Shop has a press that they rent out?
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Cougar, that is how I remember it being done as a kid
Used to live in a village called North Piddle and my Dad called our home grown stuff 'Chateau Piddle', which at the time caused a real stir with 'Thats Life' and a number of American tourist buses, which picked up on the brew from an inflight magazine of all places.
I remeber the buses turning up & my Dad flinging old bottles at them for free, which they treated like a rare Bordeaux
The wine was undrinkable, total piss water! Made my old man giggle with the thought of all these Americans gonig home and drinking this ditch water
But the parties were amazing
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