Part 2 - tasting the inmate brew with a fellow YouTuber.

[chickenpickintim]

I haven't read all the comments so I don't know if anyone else has mentioned this. I bought some clear vinyl hose 1/2" o.d. X 3/8" i.d. I then went by my local auto parts store and bought a straight PCV valve. The small end fit perfectly into the 3/8" i.d. hose. It works the same way as the one Craig is using. All total was about $4.00. It's basically a one way check valve. Works great.

[littlemexicantheif]

cool how do you sanitize the siphon hose?

[TheDuanet]

Hey Craig been awhile, this is second attempt first was apple cider was good however too dry. So how much wine cond. would u sugest for a gal. of cider. Thanks again will catchya friday.

[JogBird]

if you start with a clear juice, would it be more clear?

[MrJumentous]

do you have an idea on the alc. %? and could I use Homemade yeast made from raisins for this Inmate wine process?

[mechreports1]

i guessing if its a smaller container it takes less time to forment?

[ConcernedMushroom]

Craig, where did you get that siphoning hose?  And what is it called? I've never seen a siphon started so easily!

[CraigTube]

@ConcernedMushroom It's called a Super Siphon. I got it locally but I think you can google it and find one on line.

[048059850]

@ConcernedMushroom you've obviously never needed petrol in Scotland kid!

[Ghis1964c]

now this is country-wise, pocket-wise, ... wise-wise, or ... any-wise, simple ;)

Peace

[Mr19dave75]

should u siphon the wine before or after refrigerating?

[bgeddyutube]

gotta love the Scots - bet he stays up and necks the lot! Nice one - good video.

[stretchingreality]

amazing video, i subscribed.

[melvinvswaldo]

I think you should do a wine with concentrated juice. There is some videos I saw here on youtube but you are much better explaining everything than others on the web.

-Ken

[ComedyRoundTheCorner]

you could imagine in a brewing book:

"and for more flavour you could try adding a flavoured condom" :D

[SuperMoonshinner]

Thanks Craig/Darren.... Just made a cranberry/raspberry juice combo... Man it rocks... After checking the abv with my hydro it came out at 14%.... Thanks again guy;s....

[teethtech]

i am in the process of making my grape wine...heard about this process..i made mine in a 5 gal glass bottle..used a balloon..now in afterthought i am searching how to do it..my first balloon burst..now in it's 10th day..it sure smells good...thinking i will need to siphon into plastic jug to freeze..do you think that will be ok?

[TricityX]

If you freeze it, after siphoning the wine, how long can you store it? Can it be put into glass bottles and sealed and put in a wine cellar? Does it get better with time? And thank you so much for sharing these videos. It's a nice skill to learn, and it would be awesome to give a bottle of my own brew as gifts for holidays and special occasions :-D (Now if I can just learn how to make mozzarella right... lol)

[CraigTube]

@TricityX I honestly don't know how long it will keep for. Home brew wine kits come with some additives to preserve the wine. None of these were added to this. If you freeze it (not in glass bottles) it will last until you thaw it out. I've had some in the fridge for over a week not, opened repeatedly, and it's still fine. After I froze it and thawed it, I added a can of frozen concentrated grape juice. Pretty damn good I must say.

[dqnizer]

Hey craig, If I use the baker yeast, How many degrees Celsius should I keep it at?

[CraigTube]

@dqnizer I keep mine up in my son's bedroom where he has an Xbox and a computer running all the time. The room is nice and toasty. He also knows not to touch it, so no worries. :)

[cber8860]

@CraigTube  i wonder what it's like to play the xbox a bit toasted

[GhostGuitars]

@cber8860 er easy way to find out!

[mechreports1]

@CraigTube thats what i am doing right now with my 2 bottlles of formenting cranberry juice but im using a ps3 its going mad! lol its the second day, and im going to put it into another container and wash the other one out and then put it back into the origional container, i also heard it gets better with age and lasts a while as long as the alcohol is strong enough like the alcohol preserves it well

[tiwfdt]

I found it on Amazon. It is called the "Super Siphon". The biggest complaint review seemed to have was getting the thing to go down inside of a gas tank. Or it fell off inside of a gas tank.

Thanks for your help. This looks like something I'll add to my homebrewing tool kit. It was really slick on how you emptied out that juice bottle.



[tiwfdt]

Tell me more about your auto siphon. Looks pretty simple to use. I haven't seen it in the homebrew shops. I would like to get one. Any advise you can give me on locating one?

Also, you can sweeten your wine in the glass with more juice from the fridge.

[CraigTube]

@tiwfdt It's a glass ball on a spring inside of a copper enclosure. There is a glass ball with a spring above it. When you do a down stroke, it lifts the ball and lets fluid into the hose. When you do an up stroke, the ball falls down and seals the opening. It works like a pump. The shaking lets fluid in but doesn't let any out. The hose fills up and the siphon starts.

[tiwfdt]

@CraigTube If I were to look for this thing on the internet, what would it be called?

[CraigTube]

@tiwfdt That, I don't know. My supplier just calls it an auto siphon.

[mageac]

@tiwfdt check out ebay, ive seen packs of 3 for like 10 bucks

[tiwfdt]

Tell me more about your auto siphon. Looks pretty simple to use. I haven't seen it in the homebrew shops. I would like to get one. Any advise you can give me on locating one?

[tiwfdt]

Tell me more about your siphon starter. It looked like a check valve of some kind that you shaked. Looked WAY EASIER than working with an autosiphon.

[guitarlord247]

whenever i make prison hooch it smells awful and tastes like diarrhea...how did you get yours to taste/smell good?

[CraigTube]

@guitarlord247 Well, I show how it's made on a previous video. Maybe it's the juice or yeast you're using, or maybe you don't like hooch. Mine are quite enjoyable :) Cheers.

[guitarlord247]

@CraigTube ok,thanks,ill watch your other video

[soccafanatic13]

Hey can i pass it through a coffee filter instead of syphoning?

[CraigTube]

@soccafanatic13 That is going to introduce a lot of oxygen and may have a negative affect on the flavour.

[CraigTube]

@Tygrahh Yes, and yes.

[KainMoonshine]

Craig.

You could strain it through a coffie filter to be sure you filter it all than freeze it.

If you want to clear it further rack it a few times over the course of 4 weeks rack it once per week after freezing. Racking is nothing more then transfering bottle to bottle. I would suggest glass bottles.

[ascaye]

I'm making some of this. I've been looking all over the net for just this kind of info. Blueberry condom (too funny). What program or service did you and your friend use to conference? Skype, Tokbox or another?

[CraigTube]

@ascaye It was Skype. Thanks! :)

[metagomai]

I tried this with Apple juice and welchs grape juice...the apple is still going (after five days) but the welchs is almost done (five days seems a little quick to me)...even though the welch's was a much larger container...is this normal???

[CraigTube]

@metagomai It just depends on the juice. I've heard that Welches goes like crazy.

[beerswagger2007]

thanks bud

[beerswagger2007]

i did some pineapple like your bud did came out great now im making 5 gallons of white grapes.i did some degasing on my first shit is that important

[CraigTube]

@beerswagger2007 I'm told that degassing is important in order for the clearing. I'm doing experiments on this and will be posting more videos.

[lickthebubble]

mine came out extreamly pitter what did i do wrong?

[ACTeslaMachineDC]

this was definitely one of a kind vid kudos...awesome job craig. like the soundtrack at the end too....cheers!!!

[sandydogy]

can I do this with 3 litre's of Orange squash ie the juice before the water is added or do I have to use Grapefruit juice or pure Orange etc Thanks Ian

[CraigTube]

As long as the juice has no preservatives, it should work. Use raisins for yeast nutrient, or get some yeast nutrient from a home brew place.

[sandydogy]

Craig I will have to post a video of all the wine I have fermenting in 1 Gallon Demijohns all made from raw berries etc

[94chevybabe]

could someone explain the condom method or perhaps a different way of airlock, maybe a homemade way? or an substitute way of doing things?

[DrPott3r]

i made homebrew with honey

[grayner94]

How long does it need to ferment for??

[CraigTube]

@grayner94 It can take up to a month.

[filmspeed100]

Where is part 1???

[CraigTube]

I'm making a new one.

[sdfghjrftgyhujh6tred]

when you talked about freezing it was that to kill the yeast?

[sdfghjrftgyhujh6tred]

oh, nevermind i should have watched all of the video before commenting

[CraigTube]

Yes

[ratco352]

Hey craig, i was wondering if you prefered to do this in the house or outside. and also is room temperature sufficient enough for making this wine. Thanks

[CraigTube]

I do it in the house, and it has to be room temp.

[ratco352]

ok Thanks!

[DrHavanger]

such a good way to celebrate the 4th of july!

[maxor89]

Hey craig, watched some of your vids, just think you can add that 17.5 grams of sugar will add 1 % alkohol in 1 litre. oh, you might not use litres but, you can maybe translate :)

[stratmanandy59]

Hi Craig.

I'm new to this computer internet stuff.

I think I have done something wrong with the txt comment. I'm a 50 year old learner, sorry. Wicked video's..... Cheers.

[stratmanandy59]

Hi there Craig.

I'm kinda new to this, being computers and youtube etc. Maybe 30 years ago I made wine and beer with not a lot of succsess in either. Two weeks ago it just popped up in conversation, shall we brew our own? and the good wife said "why not". Anyway, to cut a long story short, we have watched all your vids, and subscribed. Now I watch them over n over again in the early hours when in from work. Thank god for computers, youtube and Craig tube, this comment in wrong place, but hey!

[196822119630898]

well i did wine ... from one the Utube videos ... using house hold tools and red grape juice wich i boght from the stor ... and used ur air lock method .. i never thought it will B that easy and great ... i didnt use any thing to clear it ... after 3 weeks .. it became cristal clear by it self ....

[KayakFisher01]

If you freeze your wine, make sure there is enough headroom to accommodate the expansion of your liquids. My apple juice froze and rose to the top of the container. The alcohol, which doesn't freeze, erupted from the lid like lava from a volcano. It smelled quite strong but I did lose some to the freezer. I believed it had adequate headroom, so just watch it.

Craig, what was the percentage of juice for your Cranberry?

[eyepatchinc]

i can't find part one of this

[CraigTube]

It's called "Part 1 - Airlock Blowouts and Simple Winemaking".

[CraigTube]

I would. 70 is going to give you about 10% alc and 90 will give about 13%. It's up to you. Go for it!

[ohio68]

What will affect the percentage of alcohol?

[CraigTube]

The amount of sugar added, (if any)

[woodbinedrinker]

Blueberry! LOL!

[campru1]

Where did Craig get his auto syphon it's eally cool that you just wiggle it a bit and it starts sucking?

[scoobydog411]

Is 1kg about the same as 1 table spoon ?

[TheZippyMark]

No where near. 1kg is a bagfull.

[Isismygoddess333]

stick it in the fridge and crack the lid every once in a while to let out gas and eventually the cooler temps will kill the yeast without freezing

[CraigTube]

Yup, I had no trouble with just chilling it. Fermentation was done anyway, and chilling it stopped everything completely.

[Isismygoddess333]

freezing causes alcohol separation,that is why it had the "kick" 5/5

[casualtiesofpunk]

we use bentonite in the drilling industry, its also used in DQ blizzards as a thickening agent.

[eyesofnova]

hey Craig, so the inmate wine is a brewing using a method close to what you did with the bunghole and the air lock but I decided to boil it for 10 minutes first with the clarifying agent in it and then I resanitized the plastic jug and put i in there, i also used dry coopers yeast for simplicity sake and I gotta say the fermentation has taken off very quickly. There is already a nice layer of foam at the the top. If you'd like I can take a couple pictures too. Thanks Craig.

[CraigTube]

By all means. I'd love to see.

[TheHolyBibleFASTER]

Hey Craig Im curious as to what percentage of alcohol you would expect from this method of wine making? Also is there any procedure during the proess that can control the alcohol volume? Thanks.

[CraigTube]

Just doing it the way I did it, I got about 6 or 7%. If you want more, you add about 1 kg of sugar at the beginning. That could bring it up to 12%

[eyesofnova]

I wonder if I decided to boil the wine and add irish moss if that would clear it up at all... or if I just added the irish moss and didn't add boil it. hmm..

[CraigTube]

If you boil the wine, you're gonna lose all your alcohol. I'm not sure about the Irish moss. Never heard of it.

[eyesofnova]

i ment before adding the yeast, and irish moss is a clarifyer that they use in beer homebrew. Also clarifying tablets that you can get that I use.

[CraigTube]

That sounds like a good thing to try. Certainly won't hurt anything. The standard additive for clarifying is potassium sorbate. that's what's in those tablets you can get. I believe they're called campton tablets.

[eyesofnova]

I never knew actually, I may do that this weekend though, worse come to worse is it doesn't work, haha. I'll give you a message if it works.

[EBOWARRIOR]

cheers darren and craig great team up, condom flavoured wine lol. I am going to try this method and use plums.

[erniesbudolab]

That was a great collaboration there.

[matchmanz]

awesome guys nice to see the link up to :)

[mikedude35e]

i enjoyed this video

[TehJayden]

I don't understand one word he says, Lol.

[sausage4mash]

flavored condom,lol.

[teet4ever]

My batch had one heck of a kick. The next batch, I'm going to use white grape juice.

[t2thei]

interesting idea, i liked it!

[Potts2k8]

lol that was brilliant mate, great job on the editing. Gonna try get it up on my channel now too... Speak to you soon man, great job.

[MegaShart]

Hi Craig,

I love your videos. Looking forward to some more Craig talk also. I make something similar to what you made, its called turbo cider, you make it from pure apple juice, ferment in a demijohn for about a week, bottle with sugar for carbonation and leave for about a week, tastes really nice. You should give it a try. You can also add some canned peaches for extra flavor, also add one cup of strong tea to add tannin.