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Want to Learn Secrets Regarding Wine Making For Beginners?
When people start out to make their own wine the goal is to make a good enough wine to drink. However this can be a tricky task without the right information.
This article is to help you avoid the pitfalls that many people fall into the first time around when they start to make wine at home.
Making wine at home is a growing industry, and is it any wonder when we continue to see rising prices throughout the world for a decent bottle of good quality wine.
History of Wine
Wine production came about with the cultivation of grapes. During ancient times, wild grapes abound and were familiar to the people as shown by the ancient cave drawings of grape seeds. Grapes were later used as wine which in turn branched out to many uses in ancient society.
Wine was served and drank for the purposes of seduction, as a stimulant for courage during battles, reconciliation, sealing pacts, celebrating religious festivals and for rituals, etc. Grapes were first known to be grown domestically in Southern Caucasus and the Near East, especially in the Fertile Crescent area.
About Homemade Wine Recipes
Homemade wine recipes are a blessing for both the wine making newbie and the expert vintner. All recipes have the same key elements including the fruit or plant, the sugar and the yeast. I would like you to have a better understanding of the role of these elements and how they come together to produce the perfect bottle of wine.
If you think about it, wine making is chemistry and like any scientific project it sometimes takes a bit of experimentation to obtain successful results. Homemade wine recipes should be looked at as guides. Adjustments may have to be made based on the ingredients used. If anything is off you may have an undrinkable mess on your hands.
Processing of Kaong and Coconut Wine
One of the common products of coconut and kaong is the sap or juice. Sap is processed to vinegar and lambanog but processing it to wine or commonly called toddy is neglected. The juice is sweet with initial sugar content of 20%. Natural juice microflora spontaneously ferment it to wine and vinegar. Toddy processing lies in successful arrest of natural fermentation.
The term coconut wine or kaong wine should not be mistaken with lambanog or vodka. Wine contains 9-18 % alcohol while vodka contains 35-50%. The usual alcohol content for lambanog is 80 proof or 40%. Wine goes through distillation process to produce 80 proof vodka.