The Accidental Smallholder Forum
Food & crafts => Food processing => Topic started by: wayfarer on September 19, 2019, 03:18:15 pm
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has anyone made grape juice using a press? I have a bladder press we use for juicing apples and want to use that in the hope that it will be less labour intensive than steaming. Do you need to break open the grapes before using the press and do you need to strain or do any other processing of the resulting juice before bottling it and then pasteurising it?
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Got my grape juice for my wine using my sterile hands to break the grapes once they had had a 2 minute sulphite soak to sterilise them .
Left them c/w any stems in their juices for three days , poured off the juice into a sterile container then crushed a hand full of what was left at a time to ensure almost total juice extraction . Out of the 20 litre stainless steel bucket of black grapes I had 480 grams of waste .
So pre crush but don't crush the seeds , steep in their own juice in a covered container for three days and then put the grapes through your press to get maximum juice but don't crush the seeds for it makes the juice bitter .