About Walkers Juice
Walkers hot-pressed red grapes, assures each wine maker that they are getting highest quality wine. Walkers standardizes most of their juice at 21 percent sugar, unless the juice has a naturally higher content. If you want to know the acid content or pH level they are listed on each container.
We started a Walkers Rose Blend Red Wine in the store!
Did you know you can start this juice right in the food grade carboy it comes in? Walkers juice comes with everything you need to get the started, all you add is the yeast nutrient and the yeast. Some people just sprinkle the yeast on the juice but we re-hydrated our yeast to give it a jump start. (Walkers recommends this too!) We activated the yeast by adding slightly warmed water to the dry yeast and gave it a few minutes to start. While waiting for the yeast to re-hydrate we sprinkled the yeast nutrient into our juice. We added this to replenish any of the nutrients that maybe naturally deficient in our juice. It is not necessary to feed our yeast but we want to give it the best 'working' condition possible!
As you can see our initial stage was quite violent. Just look closely at the picture, you can see the gas escaping through the liquid. This can continue for 7 to 14 days but as time goes on, the explosions will be come less frequent and less aggressive. We will be keeping an eye on the bubbler and adding more water if the level drops. This can be due to the aggressive stage or from simple evaporation.
Now we just sit back, watch and wait for the next step. This will be about 3 to 6 months when we will rack, stabilize and finally bottle our wine.
Would you prefer to use a glass carboy? Many people do. We carry them in several sizes, plus all the other things you may need like the rubber bung and bubbler. Yes, it really is that easy to make wine! Stop in and let us show you how!
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