Wines and SpiritsMake your Own Fine Wine... for Less Than $1 a Bottle!
What if you could create delicious, fine wines from the comfort of your own home? What if the wine you created tasted better than what you can buy at the store? What if I told you that this was not only possbile, but that the cost would be about a dollar a bottle?
The last bottle of wine I had cost me 90 cents. It was somewhere between a Merlot and a Cabernet in flavor, full bodied with a hint of blackberry. The best part was that I made it myself. I even bottled it in reused bottles and put my own label on it.
Are you ready to take a journey down the homemade wine path? Here"s how to make your own wine from simple household ingredients.
All you need to get started is a few things... a NEW plastic 2 gallon bucket, 5 12 ounce cans of fruit, a nylon stocking, some baker"s yeast, 4 cups of sugar, a few balloons, and enough empty pastic pop bottle to hold what you are going to make.
The first step is to clean and sanitize the bucket, the stocking, and a stirring utensil (a large spoon will do). These items must be very clean and sanitary.
Fill the bucket half full of warm water. Disolve the 4 cups of sugar into the water. Open the cans of fruit and, holding the stocking over the bucket, pour the fruit into the stocking. This could be pears, apricots, apples, grapes, or any other kind of fruit that you can buy canned. The fruit should be 100% fruit.
Tie the top of the stocking then drop it into the bucket. Use the spoon and mash up the fruit so that it gets squishy and pulpy. Swish and stir it to get as much of the fruit juice out of the stocking as possible.
Now, add the yeast by sprinkling it over the top of the bucket and give it a stir. Add enough water to the bucket so that it is 3/4 full. At this point, place a towel or some other loose covering over the bucket. All you have to do now is wait 7 days. Within 24 hours you should see the mixture start bubbling away! That is FERMENTATION happening.
At the end of 7 days, carefully, without disturbing the sediment in the bottom, pick up the nylon stocking and squeeze it out over the bucket. Let the bucket sit for another 24 hours.
Carefully pour the wine into the pop bottles. It should be relatively clear. Be sure not to get any of the sediment in the bottom of the bucket. Put a balloon over the top of each pop bottle and let sit for another week or two. At the end of the second week, you can pour the wine off the sediemtn that has formed in the bottom of the bottles and you should have very good, drinkable wine.
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