Lol, it is, but it works just fine on a small batch like this. You can't really be as efficient and will need to leave a little more wine behind. My goal with these juice wine videos is to make them in a way that anybody could give it a try, but also that you can easily scale up and use your equipment if you have things like carboys and racking canes.

The key to a Welch's wine is really in the back sweetening (assuming you want it to taste like a concord from a winery). Once you back sweeten it, it will really come to life.

Thank you very much!

Ah man, that stinks! It is getting a lot harder to find 100% concord also. A lot of them now just say "grape". There is a big Welch's factory a couple hours north of us in Erie, which I'm sure helps with availability.

I'm in WA and it was very hard to find 100% grape juice all through the spring. I chalked it up to the US exporting too much but it could of just been lack of supply.

From Canada Ottawa ontario here and also can't find Welchs grape juice amywere . Nothing on amazon or Ebay either . Maybe it's no longer sold or some wine company bought all there stock rights

Depends how you choose to ferment it. Being a fruit wine, you want one that preserves fruity aromas. I used 71B for mine. If I was doing a cool fermentation (treating it like a white wine), I would probably go for Lalvin K1-V1116 or Sensy, which has a wider fermentation temperature range.

You should be able to get 71B, which was also very very good. I brought the 71B wine to a concert in a park, and shared with some friends of friends, and their minds were blown away. The aromas that the 71B add do somewhat overpower the concord, but they are very pleasing.

@@TheHomeWinemakingChannel Thanks so much!

Yeah, I believe I mentioned that in the video. I tried to keep the equipment needs for this one to a minimum so just about anybody can give it a try, but if you already have the better equipment, you should use it. I will caution, it is very easy to tip over a container when siphoning very small volumes like this, so hold on to it with a hand.

⁠@@TheHomeWinemakingChannelahh ok, I missed where you said that lol, and yeah the small batches definitely tend to tip over, when I bottle in beer bottles, they like to tip as well, so a trick I’ve learned is to take like a cardboard 6 pack holder and use that to hold the bottles and keep them from tipping.

Are you looking at the hydrometer to determine there is no alcohol? If so, it is not the case. It should read below zero on the alcohol scale once it has fermented dry. That number only tells you the potential alcohol and is relevant before fermentation. It is possible that the wine has turned to vinegar and has lost its alcohol, but very unlikely unless it is exposed to a lot of air. Any spoilage organism that would convert alcohol will need a good bit of air to really bring the number down. In most cases you would just get a faint off-smell if a spoilage yeast or bacteria began to metabolize a small amount of the alcohol. If the wines don't taste quite right, they probably need back sweetened. Most fruit wines will need back sweetened. The may have also undergone malolactic fermentation which will wipe out malic acid and convert it to lactic acid. This will make most fruit wines taste "flat" with sometimes buttery odors or even spoiled milk odors since they usually have a lot more malic acid than a grape does.

@@TheHomeWinemakingChannel Wow...thank you for the info. I was under the impression that you can check the alcohol content by using the hydrometer. So happy that I asked before throwing it all out. Also, I did not detect the odor of vinegar. I've made fruit vinegars but these don't smell like it. So should I add some sugar or just try it? There are six different ones that I made so hopefully they turned out okay. I also have another question...'is there any way to tell the alcohol content at this stage?' I thank you for taking the time to reply, I appreciate it more than I can say.

Yep! I just added a link in the video description. Thanks!

@@TheHomeWinemakingChannel Outstanding. Thanks!!

Mulberry, blackberry, or blueberries. Made a batch using Welches and mulberries last year came out bomb.