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 mikebart101
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 Homemade wine
#6467587 - 01/16/07 08:36 PM (1 year, 7 months ago) |
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Anyone ever try this and how did it come out compared to store bought wine?
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Did something like this years ago. It was cheap. Did not taste that good. Did get you drunk..
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Re: Homemade wine [Re: KaptKid]
#6467631 - 01/16/07 08:50 PM (1 year, 7 months ago) |
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My uncle and great uncle both make blueberry wine. I'm not sure exactly how, but it's a very good after dinner wine.
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Brainiac
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Look up Mead, all it is just honey and water.
Here is a good web site for brewing stuff. http://www.williamsbrewing.com/index.cfm
This really should be in Culinary Arts
Don't use bread yest, yuck.
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i made the sugar water wine one time for fun. tasted like all shit but as said before.. gets you drunk
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Re: Homemade wine [Re: zSDMF]
#6467706 - 01/16/07 09:08 PM (1 year, 7 months ago) |
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Wow, I think I might just try makin me some of that sugar water wine... although I think I'm just gunna stick with the $4 bottle of everclear...
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I have not but I am ordering a mead-making kit tomorrow. It's what the Vikings and ancient royalty used to drink. This is the first recipe I am going to try which is recommended for beginners as it is said to be foolproof:
Ancient Orange Mead
1 gallon batch
* 3 1/2 lbs Clover or your choice honey or blend (will finish sweet)
* 1 Large orange (later cut in eights or smaller rind and all)
* 1 small handful of raisins (25 if you count but more or less ok)
* 1 stick of cinnamon
* 1 whole clove ( or 2 if you like - these are potent critters)
* optional (a pinch of nutmeg and allspice )( very small )
* 1 teaspoon of Fleishmann’s bread yeast ( now don't get holy on me--- after all this is an ancient mead and that's all we had back then)
http://dubinko.info/blog/2005-10/meadery.html
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Re: Homemade wine [Re: KaptKid]
#6467977 - 01/16/07 10:31 PM (1 year, 7 months ago) |
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Quote:
KaptKid said:
Did something like this years ago. It was cheap. Did not taste that good. Did get you drunk..
Yup
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Re: Homemade wine [Re: nugjug]
#6468073 - 01/16/07 10:55 PM (1 year, 7 months ago) |
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The downside to making wine (and mead) is the waiting. It takes months up to a year to make good wine. With beer you only wait weeks. What I like about the recipe I posted is that it's ready in only two months. Trying it before then is supposedly like drinking rocket fuel. 
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Made wine from yeast, sugar, water and Redcurrant.. Was really good.. A bit sweeter than store-bought but both a good drink and you got drunk.. Definitely worth it.
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Re: Homemade wine [Re: Nalim]
#6468348 - 01/17/07 12:44 AM (1 year, 7 months ago) |
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Does anyone know if a typical grocery store carries yeast? Specifically, Fleishmann’s bread yeast.
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Re: Homemade wine [Re: zorbman]
#6468418 - 01/17/07 01:42 AM (1 year, 7 months ago) |
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Do not use bread yeast.
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Re: Homemade wine [Re: Brainiac]
#6468431 - 01/17/07 01:56 AM (1 year, 7 months ago) |
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It is fine for this recipe. Thousands of people have made Ancient Orange with no problem whatsoever. In fact it is probably the most popular mead recipe. It is very unorthodox though.
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Re: Homemade wine [Re: zorbman]
#6468439 - 01/17/07 02:05 AM (1 year, 7 months ago) |
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http://www.thesneeze.com/mt-archives/000373.php
http://www.eckraus.com/wine-making-why-yeast.html
If you won't a high ALCOHOL wine use a mead yeast. Mead yeast can get up to 23% ALCOHOL or 46 poof
Edited by Brainiac (01/17/07 02:15 AM)
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Re: Homemade wine [Re: Brainiac]
#6468454 - 01/17/07 02:23 AM (1 year, 7 months ago) |
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The mead yeast is very robust and has a high alcohol tolerance. That means it would tear through the honey and convert all of it to alcohol leaving me with a dry, high alcohol mead that will need to age to smooth out.
The Ancient Orange recipe is meant for a mead that can be drank young which is why I chose it. The bread yeast will die early and leave enough honey for the mead to be sweet. As a beginner I want a recipe that I can make mead from quickly as my first batch.
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Re: Homemade wine [Re: zorbman]
#6468467 - 01/17/07 02:37 AM (1 year, 7 months ago) |
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Not all of the honey will be eating as the yest will kill it self(from the alcohol), before its used up.Liveing you with alot of suger left over, making it very sweet.
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Re: Homemade wine [Re: Brainiac]
#6468472 - 01/17/07 02:42 AM (1 year, 7 months ago) |
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If you are afraid it'll be to low sugar content; add more sugar/honey
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Re: Homemade wine [Re: Brainiac]
#6468477 - 01/17/07 02:50 AM (1 year, 7 months ago) |
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Not all of the honey will be eating as the yest will kill it self(from the alcohol), before its used up.Liveing you with alot of suger left over, making it very sweet.
I know. I want it to be somewhat sweet. People who have made it say it is sweet but not cloying. The orange rinds add some slight bitterness to balance the sweetness nicely. ABV comes in about 15%.
I realize this recipe is very unorthodox and I plan to use more conventional techniques in subsequent batches but this one has been tested by thousands of people and when done by-the-book comes out nice every time.
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I every now and again make a batch of distilling wine, which I then still to yield me moonshine vodka of typically 40-55% (80-110 proof)
I typically turn 1 kilo of sugar into 1 liter of 40% vodka
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This reminds me of The Sneeze
Steve, Don't Eat It! Vol. 8
http://www.thesneeze.com/mt-archives/cat_steve_dont_eat_it.php
This doesn't seem like it would taste as good....
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I can get 6 1/2 gallon buckets of grape juice. Juiced this fall, all kinds of grapes to choose from. The Bucket of juice costs around 40 dollars.
With wine, you can't open it to check it. If you open it up, you let in fresh air and the whole thing oxidizes and the flavour gets f'ed up.
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I tried using the recipe in the original post today, except I used 2 gallons of grape juice, and put it in a 5 gallon jug, with 1.5 packets of yeast, and 1 cup of sugar. Its been a good 7 hours and the balloon on top isnt filling up at all.
Is it simply because theres 3 empty gallons in the jug, and the gases are filling the empty space first? or did i screw up?
I guess ill wait a day or two and see whats up.
Advise if yall can.
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You can make wine out of anything as long as you have sugar,, yeast and acid... The best wines ive ever made are the ones where ive put alot of effort into them...
That means quality produce and cleanliness..
You can use bread yeast but it's not recommended..
Common mistake people make is trying to make it strong,,, if you put less sugar in you'll end up with something that's weaker but's much more drinkable and you might enjoy it..
best wine i ever made was elderberry and rosehip,,, i swear you could never buy anything like it !
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Re: Homemade wine [Re: Mikeyyork]
#6471877 - 01/17/07 11:39 PM (1 year, 7 months ago) |
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i make my own wine from berries i pick in the summer, you can make very good wine at home and its really simple too. beer is also simple to make , i do that too, i also distill my own 96% ethanol that i drink together with coffee, a drink for vikings 
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Re: Homemade wine [Re: elsig]
#6471886 - 01/17/07 11:43 PM (1 year, 7 months ago) |
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elsig said:
i make my own wine from berries i pick in the summer, you can make very good wine at home and its really simple too.
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