Wine Making -- How to make Home Made Swine Wine

[The ghost of a ghost of a ghost]

Wine making kits under $150 dollars? There are so damn many package choices out to choose from I need an experts advice.  Are any of you wine experts?  Do any of you have advice?

[DontTreadOnMike]

Wine making kits under $150 dollars? There are so damn many package choices out to choose from I need an experts advice.  Are any of you wine experts?  Do any of you have advice?

Never done wine but I've made my fair share of beer. I would imagine this advice would carry over in to the wine making world: Whne the instructions talk about keeping everything clean, it's not a suggestion. Do it. Trust me. haha

[Bill Brasky]

Where I live, theres a lot of ethnic division in old towns.  This traces back to the coal-mine days.  Italians went to one town, Germans went to another, Irish, etc. 

Anyway, the Italians made wine, and lots of it.  Around here, its known as Dago Red.  Some of it is very good for home brew, and some is hooch that'll knock you off your chair.  Old men in baggy pants spending 50 years, growing their own grapes in the back yard learn some things, y'know? 

If I were you and had a serious interest in making home-made wine, I'd spend a bunch of hours reading blogs and forums before I went into the expense of buying a kit.  Because I know for a fact, those old men didn't use no stinkin' kit.  You can get everything you need in a hardware store, and the bottles can be purchased at the beer store if they sell old-time returnable pop.  Soda used to come in big glass bottles, you may recall. 

By doing this, you'll have an actual understanding of the little parts, and what they're for.  And you won't get stymied into custom parts and refill kits, you'll know each part and ingredient, and how to go get another single item in the hardware store. 

I've never made wine, but I always wanted to try, kinda.  What prevented me was I don't like drinking wine, and making beer seems like a pain in the balls which can go totally wrong.  Good luck in your adventure. 

[The Green Bastard]

 How about a wine making kit for under a $1.50?

1) Empty gallon milk jug

2) containers of Welches grape juice concentrate

2) cups sugar

1) package of fleishmanns yeast.

1) large balloon.

Run containers and utensils through a dishwasher to sanitize....Pour grape juice concentrate, sugar and yeast in to empty milk jug and top off with filtered water. Shake and place a large balloon over the top of the jug opening (secure with a rubber band if necessary). Leave the jug sit for a couple weeks in a warm area. (behind the TV works great) The balloon will expand when fermenting. Once the balloon relaxes, siphon the concoction off with a piece of aquarium tubing in to used RC Cola bottles...

I would highly recommend using generic concentrate over a name brand. You can use white or red concentrate.

The white melds nicely with a Hot Pocket.

[BonerJoe]

Don't use a milk or water jug. They use plastic that breaks down in a short amount of time. And especially not a used milk jug, because the plastic absorbs rotting milk.

Also, regular bread yeast is gonna make it taste like shit.

[Bill Brasky]

Piss is sterile.  Fill a bleach container with said sterile urine, throw a couple candybars in there, and a chunk of bread.   Put it in the oven @ 450 for six weeks.  You'll get so fucked up off that shit, you'll probly need brain surgery. 

[BonerJoe]

lol

[The ghost of a ghost of a ghost]

I'm excited to find out I can spend so little on my sister for X-mas.  I hope she appreciates the self-sufficiency of the piss method.  She typically fins "beauty in simplicity."

[Harry Tuttle]

First, think about what you would like to spend. Think in the $50 - $100 range for the simplest thrown together kit. Using Google or Bing, do a search in your community for "Homebrew Supply". If there is an actual store, go to it. Look around and admire. Browse the books. Chat with the person working there. They ALL love to talk about it. Tell them you want to dabble with wine making. When you are all done, see if they have a club.

WARNING: DIY zymurgy is AWESOME!  Some people jump into it and blow hundreds of dollars on gear and piss off wives, then burn out and have to sell all of the equipment they bought at pennies on the dollar. Take it slow and enjoy the simplicity of the process. Brew with others to get a feel for it. See if there is a "brew on premises" place near you. Then, when you want a piece of equipment, watch the emails coming from your local homebrew club. You can get stuff cheap from some dude whose wife is making him quit it.

My wife loves my hobby and is very supportive. I clean up after my own mess and don't do it all too often.

[Riddler]

do yourself a big, fat favor, & find a beer/wine making store...
there's one a few towns over from me (nashua, nh) called ''incredibrew''
they have EVERYTHING for you to make your own beer or wine, plus the expertise...
they clean up the fuckin mess afterwards, too
you go there to make the initial batch, and either they or you can ''rack'' your wine (transfer the contents of the ''carboy''( 5 gal glass jug)  from one to another.
this is done after some aging, to seperate the fines/solids that settle to the bottom...
(i made homeade red one time ...i bought the ''kit''...it was a pain-in-the-cunt....& tasted like pigeon-feeding wine....the shit your average wino would drink out of a paper bag whilst sitting on a park bench feeding pigeons)

[AL the Inconspicuous]

Allah forbids.

Make wheatgrass juice instead.

[Riddler]

blow yourself up already....
(most of those muslim douchebags get liquored up & watch naked whores the night before their ''mission''.....fuckin hypocrites)

[AL the Inconspicuous]

Lord Humungus has got to be one of the dumbest people in the history of this forum...

Seriously, how can anyone repeat the same stupid bullshit over and over again and not get a clue?!

We're talking about IQ of 70 or lower here...

No wonder he's also one of the most ignored.

[John Shaw]

Seriously, how can anyone repeat the same stupid bullshit over and over again and not get a clue?!

LOL oh sweet Irony.

[Bill Brasky]

Thats like finding $20 in your winter jacket.