People have been making wine for about 8000 years our grape juice and other fruits. However, how they did in ancient times?

Did the yeast? Did the sterile containers to succeed in? Do you know what to say sterile?

ancient hieroglyphics in culture indicate that early Mesopotamian knew how to make wine. However, the glyphs go on to tell us a little more …

First, the grapes grown in the wild or have in their own yeast vineyards outside skins. Now is not that handy? If the harvest of grapes and crushed to extract the juice; but leave the skin of the grapes in the blend is fermented by itself because of the yeast. In most cases, the natural yeast is the yeast we use today, but apparently served its purpose in ancient times.

But, if he could make wine in the same way our ancestors did and let fermentation nature do for you with natural yeast. No alcohol will be as strong as if you used some currently available commercial preparation of wine yeast, but still make it possible.

But what about the need to have everything clean and sterilized before starting? He never way to do this in ancient times …

Well – yes and no. It is mentioned several times in many ancient texts that silver has an antibacterial effect. Today we know that silver kills bacteria and severely inhibits bacterial growth. The former could start their wine in large silver containers aligned and allowed to ferment in them.

Once the content of alcohol was high enough, the wine itself and the alcohol content is sufficient to keep insects from breeding.

Fast forward until the times of today and therefore we use sulfites to preserve wine and to keep bugs frowing or other bacteria in the juice while it is fermenting. Indeed, the Sulfites are much cheaper than silver lined containers!

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