Persuasive Essay On Homemade Wine

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Homemade Wine
Wine is delicious, fun to drink, and a great social lubricant. Hailing from all over the world is a wide assortment of types, flavor profiles, and stories that go along with them. What if, though, you decided you wanted to make homemade wine. Not just to see if you could do it and have a decent final product, which may be harder than you think, but do also have the personalized story that you could share along with it.

Imagine, a group of friends come over for a dinner party. One brings a nice bottle of red, maybe another a nice white, then, you break it out: a wine that you actually made. I don’t know about you, but I think that it would be a great story and a great sharing experience to go with it. Not only could you taste it together, but also explain both how and why you made your own homemade wine.

Supplies
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This is to remove any dirt, or extra chemicals (if non-organic) that may be on the outside of the flesh.

The Process
Gather all of your wine making supplies onto the kitchen counter and prepare for finally making the wine.

First, create a mash of your fruit in the crock, using either a potato masher or by simply using your hands. If you want to get funky with it, use your feet, but that tends to make a mess. Continue crushing until the fruit is within 1.5 inches of the top. Add filtered water if needed to reach that level after running out of fruit.

Next, drop in a Campden tablet to kill off yeast and bacteria, which would ruin the final product. Then, add your honey. If you like sweet wine, add more, if you don’t, use sparingly. Finally, it’s time to add the yeast and store the container to ferment. You must use a spot that is not too cool and dry (fermentation will not occur), however also not too hot (the yeast will die). Remember to return often to stir the mixture to facilitate the

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