How To Make Muscadine Wine

To make 5gal of muscadine wine how many pounds of muscadines sugar and water is needed in a 6 gal container.

How to make muscadine wine. The recipe calls for 1 quart of mashed grapes. I fill the carboy up to about within 2 inches of the airlock rubber bung with water. Mine was 19 brix.

When it reaches 5 brix strain the juice from the must and transfer to a 5 gallon glass carboy. Leave the grapes on the vine until some start to prune for maximum sugars. Muscadine is almost always sweet although some almost-dry varieties can be found.

A slide show tutorial on making homeade Muscasdine wine. Our recipe for muscadine wine makes a sweet old-fashioned wine. Collect any pulp in a fermentation bag and submerge the bag into the wine making mixture.

This approach can be used when making muscadine wine at home only I would leave the pulp in for 2 or 3 days and then remove the skins and pulp and then press. It is an acquired taste for sure and sensitive wine tasters may become overwhelmed by the aromatics. The skins contain lots of bitter tannin one of the reasons sugar is added during fermentation.

Let the juice continue fermenting until it stops bubbling in the airlock. Racking the Wine again. Then once they are crushed we can place them in a juicer that has a bladder in the middle that fills up with water and squeezes them against the sides to release all the juices out.

The thick-skinned grape is resistant to pests and disease but also a pain to ferment. Add 1 quart of the squashed fruit into the water and spread widely the dry yeast over the mixed fruit. Add water to 8 gallons use Cote Des Blanc yeast.