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Wine Processing
| The Ingredients | Amount |
| Fresh cashew apples | 1 kg |
| Refined white sugar | 96 g |
| Instant yeast | ½ teaspoon |
| Egg white | ¼ cup |
| Chopping board Weighing scale Knife Strainer Stainless casserole/vat Stainless ladle |
Glass/plastic funnel Fermenting bottles Fermenting jars Stove Cheese cloth Measuring spoon |
Ingredients Preparation
- Select ripe cashew apples.
- Wash and weigh.
- Trim both ends of the apples and slice into four equal parts.
- Weigh sliced apples.
- Add sugar equivalent to 12% of cashew weight.
- Soak the mixture for 12 to 15 minutes.
- Drain the pulp and set aside the juice extracted for fermentation.
Alcoholic Fermentation
- Transfer the juice extract to the fermenting bottle jars about ¾ full.
- Add 1 ½ teaspoon yeast.
- Shake bottle in circular motion.
- Plug on cotton at the mouth of the bottle or the jar.
- Set aside for two to four weeks.
- Siphon/decant the wine from the dead yeast.
- Mix egg white and heat mixture to 60ºC.
- Set aside for two to four weeks.
- Siphon/decant the clarified wine.
- Pasteurize to 50-60ºC for 3 minutes.
- Pack in bottle and cover with cap bottle/jam.
- Age to desired year.
- Chill before serving.
Will I really earn almost half the money I’m going to invest on cashew wine?
Come on! I’ll take you to the world of Cashew business. It’s really not that difficult. You can even do this right at your doorstep! Let’s start small with twenty-five bottles…
Think about this. The total amount needed to buy the materials for a twenty-five bottle cashew wine is only about P442.75. Let’s say you invite two of your friends to help you out on weekends and they get P100.00 each to prepare the wine. That’s more fun than bumming around doing nothing, right? So, you pay P200.00 for your labor cost. Adding them all up, we get a production cost of P642.75. Hmmm, that should just be somewhere in your piggy bank, or maybe you can discuss this amount with your parents at home. This shouldn’t be that much (Just make sure to show them it’s really worth it!). Okay, now, if you sell each bottle for P38.50, and you get that charisma going, you should sell all those twenty-five bottles worth P962.50. Simply deduct the production cost and you’ve just earned P320.25. That’s almost half the amount you used to start your small business! You don’t believe it? See for yourself.
Check out the table below for more details.
Material Cost for Cashew Wine
| Quantity | Unit | Item Description | Unit Cost | Total Amount |
| 25 | kg | Cashew apple | 5.00 | 125.00 |
| 2.4 | kg | Whie sugar | 35.00 | 84.00 |
| 93.75 | gram | Yeast | 260.00/500g | 48.75 |
| 25 | pc | Wine bottle (350ml cap) | 4.00 | 100.00 |
| 2 | pc | Egg | 5.00 | 10.00 |
| 25 | pc | Cap and seal (plastic) | 1.00 | 25.00 |
| 1 | sheet | Gold foil | 20.00 | 20.00 |
| 1 | pack | Cotton | 5.00 | 5.00 |
| 1/2 | kg | LPG | 25.00 | 25.00 |
| TOTAL | 442.75 |
| Materials Cost | 442.75 |
| Labor Cost | 200.00 |
| TOTAL PRODUCTION COST | 642.75 |
| Toatal Production Yield | 25 bottles |
| Production Cost per bottle | 25.68 |
| Selling price per bottle (50% mark-up) | 38.50 |
| GROSS SALE | 962.50 |
| GROSS PROFIT | 319.75 |
| RETURN ON INVESTMENT | 48.24% |