5 Bottles of Wine for $3

A short explanation of how to make wine DIY style. Wendy Tremayne walks you three the three simple ingredients required to make wine. Sugar, yeast, and grape juice concentrate are used in this example.

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[gizamer]

how strong is it when done

[sklarm]

@gizamer 10-14% alcohol

[coshyno]

will it smell when its fermanting ?

[sklarm]

smells the same as a high quality fermentation. pretty much like grape juice.

[panteys]

Disgusting. There are far better ways to make your own wine, and all of them start with grapes, NOT welch's grape juice.

[sklarm]

What do you think welches grape juice is? It is *JUST* concord grapes. No preservatives or additives.

[Poofyponcho]

I was on day 29 and my dog tipped it over and drank it all up. I tried to punish him, but he passed out and forgot everything the next day.

[bkpickell]

@targetcxd An airlock would have prevented the rubber taste.. Airlock $1.50, Bung for your jug... $1.25.. Your wine not tasting like rubber... Priceless.. LOL...

[targetcxd]

@bkpickell Ahh thanks, i made mine in november, and tried it last week. Wasnt fantastic of coarse, (I mean theres a reason why wine makers spend thousands of dollars to make theirs and why i spend 20-35 dollars a bottle to buy it) but overall it was very drinkable. I'm keeping it as maybe a table wine or if anything as a solution for lonely nights when budgets tight. I kept the balloon on too long thou, and i picked up a slight rubber taste :( still VERY worth it IMHO

[bkpickell]

@targetcxd Racking is the process of siphoning from one jug to another.

[bkpickell]

@AdamsBrew78 To make sparkling wine you should be using Champaign yeast, and typically you would put about a 1/2 tsp of sugar in each bottle.

[AdamsBrew78]

@sklarm

Nice video sklarm: .. Question: Do you add any priming sugar to your bottles in order to make sparkling wine? If so, how much sugar per bottle? Not sure if my yeast is the right type to continue fermenting in order to carb my bottles. .. Anyhoo, how did your final product turn out? If drinkable - this is WAY WAY cheaper than the cheapest store bought franzia boxed wine. (like a 4th or less of the cost)

[AdamsBrew78]

@AdamsBrew78

If you have a local home brew shop, if it's like mine - you can ask them to order you brewing supplies in bulk for a discount. 50 pound bag of corn sugar is $44 here (and they cover the shipping -- they just don't usually keep that much in stock) ... I used Red Star champagne yeast which was a buck. Actually tossed in two bags, second one 12 hours in because I forgot to "activate" the first pack.

[AdamsBrew78]

@Comblit

You must be shopping at an upscale grocery ;) .. I picked up welches concentrate for about $1.50 a can at local grocery store ... I did this recipe in 5 gallon batch , Only difference is that I used 8 cans concentrate and quite a bit more sugar ; I didn't have any cheap granulated sugar at the time so I used my slightly more expensive corn sugar that I use for brewing beer. (Around 8 dollars for 7 pounds that I used) .. Next time I'll try granulated at 2.50 per 5 LB.

[SanbiEnterprises]

you have nice boobs