Abbotsford, Tribune-Phonograph 02/01/2012 RURAL LIVING
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Wine racking Continued from page 4 you are making! It is like having a great about $55,” McKee said. “It’s great to turn around and have 30 bottles for that price.” candle burning,” he said. “Then you can drink it or sweeten it The next step in the process is to switch everything into a carboy, which McKee by adding a simple syrup to your liking. explains is a big glass jug. She said they Everybody likes sweet or drier wine,” she come in three, five and six gallon sizes said. Lang explained that the and the size needed varsugar added at the beginies based on the batch of ning of the process does wine. not sweeten the wine. “Then you add other “When it comes out of wine additives to kill the the carboy all of the sugar yeast and clear it,” McKis gone, if the yeast is doing ee said. “It will sit in the its job, it should turn all the carboy while it clears. sugar into alcohol,” Lang Fresh fruit wines can said. “The wine is then take one to two months Dandelion wine pretty much dry.” to clear. Then you reMcKee noted that a six rack it, put it into a new carboy because of the sediments that are gallon batch of wine will make about 30 at the bottom of the original carboy from bottles. “The kit process is shorter because it is the clearing process. Then you leave it for chemically made up to be done sooner,” another couple of months.” At that point, McKee said you check she said. “You are getting pure juice and the wine’s specific gravity, which she don’t have to do the process of mashing it, noted is something you continually check there is more of a naturalness with fresh throughout the entire wine making pro- ingredients.” McKee said she sells these kits to other cess. She said wine usually takes five to sev- wine makers. She also has beer making en days to ferment, some can take up to kits available for purchase. She admits she doesn’t know much about the beer 14 days. She said the length of time wine ages making process but she does have the supplies available. can vary. She said she tries to have samples of all “It depends on what kind of wine you are making, some of mine don’t age at the different kits available and made so when people want to purchase a kit they all,” she said. She said wines made from purchased can taste what the end product will be. “I like to let them know what they’re kits don’t age at all. “They are said and done in 28 days. getting,” she said. McKee herself doesn’t prefer one proEach kit makes 30 bottles and a kit costs
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