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2steps
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Yeast for wineCan I use bread yeast to make wine?
Also how can I make my wine sweet?
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sally_in_wales
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people certainly have in the past, problem is it has a low alcohol tolerance, so your wine will only ferment so far and will stop at a low alcohol level. That will give you a sweet wine, but its not nearly as good a flavour as using a proper wine yeast
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gil
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What Sally said about bread yeast.
Making wine sweet : various ways to achieve this, depending on how you want your wine, and what stage it's reached
a) choose a recipe that adds a lot of sugar at the tranfer to demijohn stage (you'll need a stable warm temperature, or the fermentation will stick and the wine will be very very sweet).
b) use an ordinary amount of sugar, and when fermentation slows, keep adding more, a bit at a time (say 2oz per gallon), over and over till fermnetation ends. Then taste, and add more sugar till it's how you like it. This gives a very heavy, port-style wine, with high alcohol, almost more like a liqueur.
c) ferment out an ordinary wine to dryness, rack for the last time, sugar up to taste, and add a Campden tablet / 1tsp sulphite to stop further fermentation.
d) as for c) but use 1/4tsp potassium sorbate instead of sulphite, which will kill the yeast (in theory)
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