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How To Make Wine From Ordinary Fruit Juice 0

Posted on March 03, 2010 by admin

Making homemade wine from Fruit Juice is probably the easiest and cheapest method of making wine, and with very little fuss too. I am sure if this is your first time you will be very surprised just how easy it is to do.

Even if you have very little experience of home wine-making, using fruit juice is excellent way to begin your career as a home brewer, and you can find many choices of ingredients from most supermarkets or local shops.

The first important thing to ensure is that you have all the neccesary tools, implements and ingredients close to hand, namely one demijohn, a funnel, a bubbler, some wine yeast and yeast nutrient.

Things To Prepare Before Making Homemade Wine 0

Posted on February 23, 2010 by admin

Someone who desires to brew some homemade wine, no matter if they are a beginner or an authority, must reason clearly in relation to a few important things ahead of preparing a gallon (or five!) of wine.

The first, and most imperative, detail is to make certain that all your containers and utensils are utterly sterilised.

Irrespective of whether you are preparing economical homemade wine from fruit juice, or an expensive specialist wine-making package, the last thing you want is for it to be flawed as a result of one stray morsel of microbe.

Use natural ingredients instead of chemicals in your homemade wine! 0

Posted on February 21, 2010 by admin

Calling all homemade wine-makers, especially the the members of the green-living community that are against the use of chemicals in any food or liquid that they are partial to eating or drinking.

So the question is; Did you know that there are some natural replacements for some of the “essential” chemicals that are used by most experts of homemade wine?

Now I have been making homemade wine for over 15 years now, and it is perfectly possible to make wine without ANY chemicals at all.

Things To Consider Before Brewing Your Own Wine 0

Posted on February 14, 2010 by admin

Anybody who wants to make some homemade wine, whether they are a beginner or an expert, should think clearly about a few important points before preparing a gallon (or five!) of wine.

The first, and most important, point is to make sure that all your containers and utensils are thoroughly sterilised. Whether you are making cheap homemade wine from fruit juice, or an expensive specialist wine-making kit, the last thing you want is for it to be spoiled by one stray bit of bacteria. All your demijohn’s or carboys should be completely cleaned throughout, before and after every batch that you prepare.

Super Simple (and cheap) Wine Making 0

Posted on February 14, 2010 by admin

Super Simple (and cheap) Wine Making: I’ve been brewing for years. I started out with a huge complicated kit and there are times when it’s necessary to break that out, but now that I have a good understanding of exactly what’s going on I’ve boiled the process down to streamline it.

To do this you will need

* 1 jug of sugar based fruit juice (or any liquid with a high amount of sugar)
* 1 packet of wine or champagne yeast
* 1 (maybe two) condoms… have an extra in case one breaks when you apply it.

Things to consider BEFORE making homemade wine 0

Posted on February 14, 2010 by admin

Anybody who wants to make some homemade wine, whether they are a beginner or an expert, should think clearly about a few important points before preparing a gallon (or five!) of wine.

The first, and most important, point is to make sure that all your containers and utensils are thoroughly sterilised. Whether you are making cheap homemade wine from fruit juice, or an expensive specialist wine-making kit, the last thing you want is for it to be spoiled by one stray bit of bacteria. All your demijohn’s or carboys should be completely cleaned throughout, before and after every batch that you prepare.

How to make five gallons of cheap Apple Wine – quick and easy! 0

Posted on December 11, 2009 by admin

I am the expert at making cheap wine so i am going to share my expertise with anyone who is willing to learn and benefit from my 20 years experience.

To make 5 gallons of cheap Apple Wine, you will need a 5-gallon fermentation barrel, plus the basic wine-making kit i have described before.

Then you need to go to a supermarket and buy these ingredients:

10 litres Pure White Grape Juice
6 litres of pure Clear Apple Juice
2 litres of Concentrated Apple Juice (50% Hi-juice will do)
5 kilos of Sugar

How to make cheap strawberry wine 0

Posted on November 16, 2009 by admin

I like to make many different types of homemade wine, but this is one of my particular favourites. I have made this with real strawberries, but they are very very expensive when out of season, so take note of my very cheap ingredients, but the taste is exactly the same as with real strawberries.

So here is you shopping list:

2 litres of red (or purple) grape juice. Make sure it is pure. We hate additives!

1 small (500ml) bottle of strawberry sauce (You know, the type you squirt over your ice-cream)

1 kilo of sugar

How to make a gallon of cheap Apple Wine 0

Posted on November 15, 2009 by admin

Hi everyone, i have to tell you that i am the absolute expert in making cheap wine. I live in England and the price of a bottle of cheap wine is extortionate over here, so if you live in a country like this you need to take careful note of what i am going to tell you.

You can read many articles that tell you that you need this and that and all the general paraphanalia that wine-making stores tell you are essential for the job, but from years of experience, i know otherwise. Follow my simple guide and you will have success.

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