Grape Juice with the help of the Magic Steamer

Grape Juice is made in many different ways I am sure.  Through pure luck, I think I have stumbled on an amazingly easy way to get the yummiest grape juice ever. 

First comes the picking.  At our new property, we have about 30 feet of healthy concord grape vines that produced an amazingly abundant crop of grapes this year. 

This is what they look like coming off the vine.  It takes about an hour to fill up my trusty basket with grapes.

I get them home and begin to process.  This means washing them and picking off all the green grapes.  Here is the bowl at home full of grapes.

Then comes the magic steamer.  This contraption is amazing.  So I load the top layer with grapes.  This layer is like a giant collander.  The second layer with the hose coming off the bottom is like a bundt pan with a cone in the middle for directing the steam up into the grapes.  The space around the cone collects the juice that gets steamed out of the grapes. The bottom layer is the water bath where the steam comes from.   When the middle layer gets filled with juice, I just drain it off through the tube into a sterilized jar and put a canning ring on and VOILA! I have canned grape juice. 

Here the final product sitting next to an amazing dahlia.  It is so concentrated, you can't even see that it is purple.  YUM YUM YUM.