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water helps to extract the dissolved sugars and flavor
compounds, and as fermentation begins, the alcohol created
helps to extract the color. This technique is best suited to
softer fruits that are easily crushed by hand, though it is used
for practically all fruits for the overwhelming preponderance
of country wines.
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Organic fruit juices can make a valuable adjunct to
homemade wine
As an alternative, especially for harder fruits such as apples, I
recommend using a high quality juice machine such as the
Juiceman™ or Champion™. With these machines, the
expressed juice goes into one container and the pulp goes into
another. For darker fruits from which you want to extract
color, such as cherries or blueberries, scoop the pulp from the
pulp container into a nylon straining bag that you put in the
bottom of the primary fermenter. (Note: Exclude the pits from
stone fruits as they contain a cyanogenic glycoside that is
poisonous.)
Juices
