Hi I'm John today you'll be making raspberry dragon fruit wine or at least
we're starting it because it takes a little time to ferment so we can't do it
all today but basically we're starting out with fruit juice so this is a
raspberry dragon fruit fruit juice we're gonna start by adding bentonite it's
basically a porous clay substance it's kind of formed by weathering volcanic
ash reason it's used in winemaking because it helps clarify the wine so
keeps it clear we're gonna filter this at the end but we still start with this
anyways so basically what happens is we mix this in first we're gonna put this
in this it mixes easiest with hot water so we're gonna put the east in and the
East is gonna bubble and it's gonna need all the sugar and that's how the wine
ferments and as the yeast spring stuff up the bentonite grabs it because it's
real porous clingy and it takes the substance down so the thick stuff
basically it tries to take to the bottom and we're gonna let this go for two
weeks and then we're gonna rack it into a bottle like this and by racking what
that means is we stick a tube and we filter off we're gonna ferment it in
this bucket and then we're gonna stick a tube in the bucket and just move it into
this so the bucket will be up here and the glass will be on the ground and we
there would be sediment on the bottom we have a special tool that doesn't grab
the sentiment and filters just the wine in then we let it set for a couple more
weeks then we're going to filter it and bottle it so let me finish doing this
here today so I said mix this stuff up real good and
it's kind of like this looks like dirty water but it's said clay it's basically
play so we're gonna take our fruit we're gonna dump on in here
one other thing I forgot to mention is this is a this is a kit you can make it
from scratch and use fresh fruit I do that sometimes I just got done making
some dandelion wine that's a reason I'm doing this is I want to get all this
extra juice out here but dandelion wine as I was mentioning you gotta take a lot
of an alliance that that's not so fun sitting in the yard picking dandelions
this year I had a co-worker I wanted to pick being away and through this friend
so he forms bag pocket in this bag I can't get all this out so I'll play with
that later but so it basically got the fruit juice in the bentonite in here and
we're making six gallons is a six don't clip basically room-temperature water
you want you want this to be between 72 and 76 degrees to ferment properly so
I'm gonna top it right up to this level this ring right here is the six gallons
and that leaves me the proper headspace to to ferment get all the bubbling and
it doesn't bubble up so
so there you are right up to the line there and I like to stir it a little bit
and all we do is just add the yeast just sprinkle it right on top here make sure
we get all the yeast out of there so basically the yeast is gonna eat all the
sugar and ferment it for two weeks I'll seal this in a minute but I gotta get
some water in my airlock so airlock goes there
basically we fill this about half way with water so no air can get in here
only the carbon dioxide that's created by the yeast eating the sugar can't get
out so that's what we're gonna do we're gonna let this set for two weeks and
then then we'll come back with another video on how to do the rest so have a
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