I'm making homemade grape juice for the first time. We have some of the green seedless grapes (very strong sweet flavor) and my friend's neighbor has a large row of concord type purple grapes (with seeds) that do not want to use them.

The usual recipe (for the method I'm trying) is ...

1 cup cleaned and stemmed grapes
1/2 cup sugar

Fill the quart jar with boiling water and then water bath for 20 min.


Some comments I've heard were that this was too sweet for some people's taste and that it is safe to omit the sugar.

I did 2 cups of grapes instead of 1 and added no sugar. I was thinking, Why not do 3 cups? When we are ready to drink it, we strain it out of the bottle, add water to make it just right and we can add sugar then if we want to, to taste. It takes up just as much room in the storage jar, so why not have it a little more concentrated?

You let this sit for at least a month before you drink it... some people say 6 months is the optimum flavor.

I'll be trying it with the purple grapes this week.

Any thoughts or experiences with homemade grape juice, I'd love to hear them!