How to Make Grape Juice From Fresh Grapes

Making fresh, homemade grape juice is fun and relatively easy. You can make great tasting, all-natural grape juice from fresh grapes for fun, to impress or for nutritional reasons. You might find more intricate and detailed processes, but this is a basic, easy and quick way to make your juice.

Things You'll Need

• Large pot for cooking
• Potato masher
• Pitcher
• Grapes
• Stove
• Cheesecloth or jelly strainer
• Colander
• Sugar (optional)
• Large spoon
• Large bowl

Instructions

1. Get your grapes. You can always go to the grocery store and find grapes, but consider picking your own grapes at a local orchard (if there is one around). You can use white or red grapes.

2. Clean the grapes. Remove the stems from your grapes. In the colander thoroughly wash your grapes in cold water and let them drain well. The amount of grapes you want to use is up to you, it all depends on how much you want to make. To fill a 1 gallon pitcher you will need 10 to 12 pounds of grapes.

3. Mash the grapes. Put the grapes in a large bowl and mash them well with your potato masher.

4. Cook the grapes. After you have removed the stems and thoroughly cleaned and mashed the grapes, put them into your large pot and add just enough water to cover the grapes. Heat on medium-high until it reaches a boil. Immediately reduce the heat to medium-low and simmer for 10 minutes. Remember to constantly stir so that no grapes stick to the bottom of your pot. You may now add a few tbs. of sugar if desired. The sugar is optional and can be added to desired taste.

5. Strain. ]Empty your mixture into the cheesecloth and strain directly into your serving pitcher. Allow your product to cool for several hours in the refrigerator before serving. Enjoy!

Tips & Warnings

• If you would like to squeeze all you can out of your grapes, after you strain your mixture into the cheesecloth, take any left over grapes and repeat steps 3 to 5. You should be able to get a bit more juice out of your mixture.

• Be sure to wash you grapes well to reduce the risk of any germs, chemicals or bacteria that may be on your food.

Resources

• Read this Article in Spanish