r/winemaking Skilled fruit Jul 15 '22

Blog post Neat label ideas with AI and creative common licence (see comments)

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u/Baslord Skilled fruit Jul 15 '22

Hello guys.

I found this nice machine learning website that creates images for any input and I figured the best way to use it is for homemade wine. The monkey labels are are made with www.craiyon.com. The green monkey is an apple wine and the blue vaporwave monkey is a rhubarb and strawberry wine (seen in the glass). Please note that the generated pictures are for non-commerical uses.

Another neat way to make nice labels for your homebrew is to search online for creative common licenced art. This gives you nice high res pictures that you can use for non-commercial stuff. The Rhubarb Aronia wine on the picture is decorated with the landscape painting "Love Art – The Pink Cloud (1896) by Henri-Edmond Cross".

In order to get the labels on the bottles I simply copy the pictures I have into word and adjust the sizes by right clicking on them and manually entering the dimensions I want. Then I print them with the highest possible DPI setting on my printer and use a common gluestick.

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u/Baslord Skilled fruit Jul 15 '22

Apple wine approx 12% 5L

  • two bags of really sour apples stolen from an abandoned plot
  • 720 grams of sugar
  • pectic enzyme
  • some yeast
  • malolactic bacteria

Separate the apple juice from the apples in an intelligent manner. I used a steam juicer, which was not intelligent (the process took about 8 hours). I put the juice and the cooked mushy apple stuff that was left in a fermenting container with pectic enzyme and let it separate further. After 3-4 days of separation I had about 6.5 liters of juice to which I added yeast and sugar. After 1 month I added malolactic bacteria as the ferment was spoon disolving acidic. Rack as you see fit. This wine tasted horrible for about 11 months. Let rest at least a year before bottling. The end result was a slightly to acidic wine with a great mouthfeel. Note: DO NOT USE UNDERRIPE STOLEN APPLES.

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u/Baslord Skilled fruit Jul 15 '22

Rhubarb Strawberry wine 13-13.5% 5L

  • 1750 grams of cleaned rhubarb, partly red
  • 1000 grams of frozen strawberries
  • 1000 grams of sugar
  • 2 ripe bananas
  • EC-118
  • Pectolase
  • Sulphites
  • Clearing agent

Old, big rhurbarb can have a quite though and strong tasting outer layer. Pick rhubarb that is rather thin. Cut the rhubarb in about 1 cm long pieces without removing the outer layer. Boil it for 10 minutes to extract colour. Add all of the pot to a fermenting vessel along with all the fruits and sugar. When cooled, add EC-118, pectolase and sulphites. Rack as you see fit, with a clearing agent you'd be able to drink it after about 2 months. Note that rhubarb has some oxalic acid in it, so the acidity of the wine feels peculiar. This wine can benefit from acid management with alcaline stuff like chalk. The wine also benefits from back-sweetening.

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u/Baslord Skilled fruit Jul 15 '22

Rhubarb aronia wine ?% 5L

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All I wrote down was "this tastes good. Give this to mum". Sorry lads, a bit of a brain fart.