Home made wine

swizzlebabe

Is it easy and cheap to make?

Remember a friend of my mum`s a jamacian lady making pea pod wine and potato skin wine.

Any ideas?

Austin_Allegro

There's another thread on this, but yes, it is easy and cheap.

You can do it very expensively with all the kit, or you can do it very cheaply.

If you get all the right kit, this will cost £25+ (but you might get cheaper on ebay or boot sales)

If you use solid ingredients, like fruit, berries etc, this requires a lot of crushing and straining but the results can be excellent.

If you just want cheap, quick, easy booze, you can make 'buck' or 'prison wine'. Get a big bottle or jar (say about 5 litres - you can use a plastic water bottle). Sterilize it using campden tablets or baby sterilising stuff (or bleach if you don't mind the taste) then add 2l of pure fruit juice (cheapo economy stuff works fine). Top up with about 2.5 litres of cold water and stir well. In a seperate sterilized bowl mix 750g of sugar with 0.5 litres of boiling water, mix till dissolved, add to mixture. Sprinkle 1tsp of yeast on top, swirl. Then put a sterilized balloon over the top of the jar. This is to keep bacteria out. After an hour or so the fermenting should start and the balloon will start to fill up with gas. If not add a bit more yeast. Swirl daily. After about 5 weeks the fermentation will stop and the balloon will go down. Decant carefully. The 'wine' is then ready to drink.

squeaky

The other home made wine thread is Here.

HTH