make my own wine

I’ve always wanted to make my own wine! I’m looking forward to trying it sometime soon.

I make wine for a living, and just want to let all of you know that it is a great experience and worth the investment. There is great information online on what to do and where to buy supplies. Its not hard and its tons of fun! Good luck!

Jen

I want to make my own wine, and hopefully my dreamhome will have a small little wine celler!! If I am really lucky I want my own vinyard!!

it seems relatively easy, and you can make wine from just about anything.

I want to make a drinkable dry wine

I saw this goal on 43 things, and then I thought, I want to do that!

I started off making wine in 2 liter bottles from frozen breakfast drink concentrates you can get at any grocery. It’s kinda like cooking, you mix up all your ingredients, but instead of putting it in the oven, you set it aside for a week or 2. Put it in the ‘fridge for a day or 2 to get the left over yeast to drop out, then drink.

Here a link to show how I did it:
http://mikemojc.byethost12.com/Brew2.html

You’ll probably want to get your yeast at a brew shop near you since young lively yeast is the key to a good ferment. It only costs about $1 a package, and a pack will make about a dozen 2 liter bottles worth of wine!

Once you have a taste of success (literally!), it’s easy to play around with different juices (apple, grape, white grape raspberry, cranberry, all kinds of stuff available out there!) and different sweeteners to make delicious drinks. A couple people I know that started out making wine this way have gone on to more sophisticated methods of wine making, but still brew a small batch this way once in a while.

My current favorite recipe is white grape and apple juice with honey and brown sugar added. If you try something and it doesn’t work out, you only have about $1.50 invested in the batch (about 2 regular wine bottles worth), so it’s no great loss and you get a chance to learn what doesn’t work for your taste buds.

With a low start up cost and such a high chance of success, you should try it if you are AT ALL interested. You’ll probably like it! :)

I made my own Watermelon Wine with the instructions provided on Mother Earth News’ site.
It turned out really great, a little stronger than I expected but it was really interesting and fun!

So, we are getting a Piesporter wine into the primary fermenter this upcoming weekend. I heard it’s a good tastin’ one. I’m excited already. If it’s as good as the last kit we made, I think I’ll be hooked.

Really, any dinner worth having should always be paired with wine. Not to mention how much warmer you feel after a glass or two. Eveything loosens up and converstaion flows freely. Even if your just cleaning the house one day in your housecoat, class it up wih a glass of vino. Just dont do that with vodka… there’s no class in that you alchoholic.