Home-Made Wine

[DominoKett]

I attempted to make wine out of common household items and was not impressed, overall it was a waste of time and a few bucks. I used this site http://www.warpbreach.com/6/6.html and made 4 liters of sour shitty wine. Have any of you had been able to make a drinkable wine not using a wine kit and just household items, if so please share

[.VX]

I've heard Mead is pretty easy to make with household items. Although I've never tried making it myself so I wouldn't know.

[Nox (ADVANCED)]

Allways wanted to try mead. Cant seem to find it though.

[DominoKett]

ya thats would be cool. not sure exactly what mead is. my understanding is that its like beer in midevil times haha which im sure is a horrible definition. and is making mead as difficult as making beer?, because i prefer beer but chose to make wine cause i know very little about brewing and wine seemed much easier as a first attempt.

[davey_crockshit]

mead is based on honey. sca types drink the hell out of it. there is some made commercially in a town not too far from me. i tried some. tasted kinda like wine but weird.

i don't remember for sure but sca related sites would likely have a recipe or two for mead and maybe other interesting things. besides, the sca itself offers many opportunities for you to have odd things happen to you, usually in a good way.

anyway, if it was sour, i'm thinking maybe you didnt sterilize the equipment well enough and the bacteria started making vinegar out of it.

my only homebrew experiment was a couple of weeks ago with roughly a glass worth of apple juice "almost out, what the hell......" and some baking yeast from the store. i only had a sip. tasted boozy. didnt swallow it as i had to work the next day and didnt want to risk a case of the shits. concept proved, i think, yeast plus sugar equals alcohol.....

i used to know a guy who made his own beer etc. he made onion wine once. its as bad as you think............

[.VX]

I've heard it can be made with a jar, yeast, honey and water. But this probably isn't true. I think you'd need some sort of special equipment.

[odin_dax]

Doesn't wine take a few months to ferment?

[Nox (ADVANCED)]

And need wooden barrels to "age" in? Why not make some potato wine, it sound easy.

[.VX]

And need wooden barrels to "age" in? Why not make some potato wine, it sound easy.

Do you mean Moonshine?

[Nox (ADVANCED)]

I thought moonshine was whiskey??

[.VX]

Oh, sorry, you're right. Moonshine is distilled Potato Skin wine, so it's whiskey.

[Nox (ADVANCED)]

lol, n o problem man. Potato wine is vodka or sake i think.

[DominoKett]

Doesn't wine take a few months to ferment?

no it takes about two weeks. this is how i made it or how you can if your interested

get an empty 2 liter bottle.

fill about 90% with welches grape juice

mix a pinch of yeast, a little sugar, and warm water and then add that to the 2 liter of juice

shake it

put a balloon over the nozzle to serve as both a lid and pressure reliever

put it in you closet

every day or two take the balloon off and let gases out of inflated balloon

then quickly put balloon back on

do the balloon procedure for about 2 weeks or until bubbles stop going to the top and balloon quits inflating

siphon wine out of two liter so the gunk at the bottom (dead yeast) stays in the two litter and you then have pure wine.

drink it then or age it for a couple months for a better taste

if ageing it put a real lid on instead of a balloon

[odin_dax]

The first two steps made me want to gag. No wonder it tasted like crap. After the fourth step, I just stopped reading. No way to make wine, bro. I'd venture the Moonshine route though.

[.VX]

lol, n o problem man. Potato wine is vodka or sake i think.

Sake is rice wine, and Vodka is distilled Wheat wine, but it's made from Potato wine sometimes.

[Nox (ADVANCED)]

Wasnt sure about the sake and had a fair idea about the vodka with potato.

I have a question thats off-topic whats the difference between Scotch whisky and whisky? Or are they same thing?

[.VX]

Scotch Whisky is Scottish and is distilled two or three times. Irish Whiskey is distilled three times in a copper container. Bourbon is American, and has to be more than half made of corn. There's more, but I don't know them.
They're all pretty similiar, but Scotch is the best.

[DominoKett]

The first two steps made me want to gag. No wonder it tasted like crap. After the fourth step, I just stopped reading. No way to make wine, bro. I'd venture the Moonshine route though.

ya ive rersearched how to make moonshine from the wine but it just seems kinda dangerouse cause you can die from alcohal poisoning if you are an amature at making moonshine, which i am.

if SWIM was to make it this is what he would do.

get a pressure cooker are drill a hole in the top and insert tubing then seal the area air tight around where tubing enters pressure cooker

fill with shitty homemade wine

heat to 80 celsius

get a styraphome (horrible spelling) ice cooler and put two hole on the opposite sides of it.

have tubing pass in one hole of cooler and out the other

fill cooler with ice

have the end of the tubing drip into a bowl after passing through ice cooler

what is supposed to happen is alcohals boiling point is around 78 celsius so it will evaporate into the tubing purely being alcohal and leaving the water/other stuff in wine behind when the wine is heated to 80 celsiuse. then alcohal will go into the cooler in gas form through tube but come out in liquid form cause the ice cools it down. then it will drip into the bowl as nearly pure alcohal

[.VX]

ya ive rersearched how to make moonshine from the wine but it just seems kinda dangerouse cause you can die from alcohal poisoning if you are an amature at making moonshine, which i am.

if SWIM was to make it this is what he would do.

get a pressure cooker are drill a hole in the top and insert tubing then seal the area air tight around where tubing enters pressure cooker

fill with shitty homemade wine

heat to 80 celsius

get a styraphome (horrible spelling) ice cooler and put two hole on the opposite sides of it.

have tubing pass in one hole of cooler and out the other

fill cooler with ice

have the end of the tubing drip into a bowl after passing through ice cooler

what is supposed to happen is alcohals boiling point is around 78 celsius so it will evaporate into the tubing purely being alcohal and leaving the water/other stuff in wine behind when the wine is heated to 80 celsiuse. then alcohal will go into the cooler in gas form through tube but come out in liquid form cause the ice cools it down. then it will drip into the bowl as nearly pure alcohal

That's not moonshine though.

[Nox (ADVANCED)]

Scotch Whisky is Scottish and is distilled two or three times. Irish Whiskey is distilled three times in a copper container. Bourbon is American, and has to be more than half made of corn. There's more, but I don't know them.
They're all pretty similiar, but Scotch is the best.

Sourmash bourban is apples and grains i think, Jim Beam.

You a Johnnie fan too?

[.VX]

Sourmash bourban is apples and grains i think, Jim Beam.

You a Johnnie fan too?

Of coarse, but Blue Label's too fuckin' expensive.

[Nox (ADVANCED)]

Ahhh only red label for me lol.

[.VX]

If I can't get Blue, which is always, then I'll settle for Red.

[Nox (ADVANCED)]

Nah i like red alot more than blue an black. The premium reds are too good.

[.VX]

I've never had any premiums.

Sadly, though, I normally have to settle for whatever my friends are dinking. Usually just beer or vodka.

[Nox (ADVANCED)]

LMFAO lollie water.

Melboune,old and TEDs are good.

[davey_crockshit]

glenlivet...mmmm. glen garioch isnt too bad and is cheaper. bought a bottle of cheap pinot noir, kinda barfy, i'm making spaghetti tonight, its going in the sauce. the best scotch i ever tasted is some kind of gaelic name let me see... bunnsomethinghaben or something.... er. bunny-heaven? probably not.... its like fifty bucks a bottle. sometimes more expensive stuff is worth it.

havent really had irish whiskey yet. maybe this evening. there's this bar around the corner, see.......

[DominoKett]

That's not moonshine though.

o ya my bad, thats how to try and make pure alcohal even though im sure it would be pure. ya moonshine seems a little too hard to attempt if your not with someone whos experianced. ive read quite a bit about how to make it on the internet but it sounds pretty difficult.

and damn it sound like you guys get the luxory of trying all the good alcohal. im under 21 and have to settle for what i can get which is usually PBR and shitty burnetts vodca

[.VX]

o ya my bad, thats how to try and make pure alcohal even though im sure it would be pure. ya moonshine seems a little too hard to attempt if your not with someone whos experianced. ive read quite a bit about how to make it on the internet but it sounds pretty difficult.

and damn it sound like you guys get the luxory of trying all the good alcohal. im under 21 and have to settle for what i can get which is usually PBR and shitty burnetts vodca

Yeah, and even if you did make Moonshine, there's still a chance of methanol poisoning.
And I'm under 18.

[Micro]

Just discard the first 5cm of the distillate and you are good to go.
Methanol has a lower boiling point than ethanol, thus it boils before ethanol.
People who don't realize this die from methanol poisoning.

Now that I have time I should continue making my ebook on homemade "wine".
After the "wine" book should come the moonshinig book, complete with guides for making the mash and still.

Allready got 2-3 pages of text on the wine book.
There will be more to come whem I make the graphics and finalize the recipies.
Now that I think of it I should siphon my 3 liters of home wine and have a taste.
It is compleatly clear and has a 3-4cm layer of dead yast at the bottom.
A friend of mine had a bottle of siphoned product made by someone else for about 6 months under his bed. It tasted like cheap wine which is quite good for it.

[Nox (ADVANCED)]

I got ahold of some mead on the weekend.

Maxwell's Honey Mead was ok but not something i would buy all the time.700ml 12% alc. content around 7.5 standard drinks all in all $14.68 AUD.

Its like Exactly wat CWG said tastes like white wine but weird.

[depthfinder09]

I've made homemade wine-ie it tasted nothing like wine- it tasted much more like a wine cooler, bubbly consistency and all. It was rather good and i sold a few bottles of it. Any sugary juice, some extra sugar, yeast, a rubber glove or balloon and your set. Very simple. takes abt 2 weeks.

[DJ Poppinfresh]

I've made homemade wine-ie it tasted nothing like wine- it tasted much more like a wine cooler, bubbly consistency and all. It was rather good and i sold a few bottles of it. Any sugary juice, some extra sugar, yeast, a rubber glove or balloon and your set. Very simple. takes abt 2 weeks.

Well, I'm sure that if you were to put enough sugar into Tequila it would taste like cordial. I rather wine with a more bitter bite. How do I achieve this? I mixed [Unknown red wine I had] with Sambuka. I don't recommend it.

But I've never tried my hand at brewing wine, although from the sound of it, it would be fairly easy compared to Whiskey/Vodka ect. It would just take longer.

[.VX]

I half-arsed-ly tried this a while ago and it tasted horrible.

[DJ Poppinfresh]

I half-arsed-ly tried this a while ago and it tasted horrible.


Are you per chance referring to the time you brewed that concoction where all the yeast floated up to the top and solidified?

Because that DID taste horrible. I didn't even try it and I know that!

[coati]

If you want to know about distilling alcohol you can't find a better starting place than homedistiller.org , if making wine I would suggest losing the balloon and buying an airlock.I bought one a few years ago for like two dollars US.

[.VX]

Are you per chance referring to the time you brewed that concoction where all the yeast floated up to the top and solidified?

Because that DID taste horrible. I didn't even try it and I know that!

No, the first time I didn't filter it properly and it sunk to the bottom and solidified. After tha I did it though with proper juice and it tasted like cheap white wine, beer and over ripe oranges.

[treeburner]

put a balloon over the nozzle to serve as both a lid and pressure reliever

put it in you closet

every day or two take the balloon off and let gases out of inflated balloon

then quickly put balloon back on

do the balloon procedure for about 2 weeks or until bubbles stop going to the top and balloon quits inflating



poke a few holes in the balloon, 4 should be good. that way the gases can be released without you having to take the balloon off which could have caused air to get into the bottle and ruin your wine. You can use a condom instead, just make sure it's not used. or buy an airlock

[Micro]

You can make a simple airlock from a .33l or .5l plastic bottle and a piece of tubing.

Cut a hole in the cap of the bottle.
Put the piece of tubing thru it, so that it reaches the bottom of the bottle.
Put the other end of the tubing to a opening in your container of soon to be alchol.
Fill the bottle with water.
Tape the bottle to the side of the vesel.
Get annoyed by the constant bubbling.

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One could fix a activated carbon filter on tupr of this water lock rather easily.