Have you ever wondered how wine is made? Thanks to Diane and A.W., some of our club members learned the process at last week's wine making club social!
Club members started with a kit which included the grape juice, squeezed grapes, and other ingredients important to the wine making process. Steps included:
• Heating water and adding the clay base
• Adding the grape juice from the kit
• Squeezing the remaining juice from the grapes and adding the squeezed grapes
• Checking the alcohol content of mixture
• Lastly, adding the wood chips and the yeast.
The mixture will now sit for 6 months to ferment before it can be bottled. Members were also able to sample and help bottle a previous batch, which had already been fermenting for 8 months!
