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| Home Great Swamp Brewery Vino Vetrone Distilleria Poconos Fun Pics Go To Page Two Some Favorite Wine Making Pictures Making Red and White Zinfandel September 2004: |
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| Bailey wants some grapes | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| My buddy Gerald with the Zinfandel grapes after picking up 20 cases at 36 lbs each at Corrado's Market in Clifton. | Gerald chrushing the grapes after all the equipment was sanitized. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| The stems are removed and empty into the second container during crushing. | A close up of the Zinfandel grapes | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| The crushed grape skins in the sweet juice at almost 26 Brix. The acid level needed to be adjusted and minimal sulfites were added. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Some juice was removed off the skins right after crushing to prevent too much color extraction for a small batch of White Zinfandel. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| After two different strains of yeast were added to the two batches, an afternoons work is complete and the wait for fermentation begins. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| The foaming cap after the start of fermentation less than a day later. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| The following weekend loading the press to press the juice off the shins. | Free run juice flowing through the press while loading. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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