Make your own wine?

nooooo

My wife refuses to let me learn how to do it, claims I'll drink it like a fish

I like Mer lot and Ziff, Sangreia...

Night Train for me


JK, I'm more of a beer kinda gal... but I know a lush that only drinks that aweful stuff. ewwwww

My grandma came from a long line of moonshiners.  She used to make what she referred to as wine, but I had my doubts.  She used blackberries, elderberries and something else along with pure grape juice.  People always said it was good after they drank it, but I suspect it was because they were toasted at that point

An uncle on my husbands side makes beer.  (We call him uncle beer).  He made a really nice honey wheat beer as a wedding present for us (we had a small reception, so a keg of it was enough).

I have no experience with it at all.  The craziest thing I make is a sweet squash soup that has italian sausage in it (everyone thinks it sounds nasty until they taste it.....)  I wish I knew how to make wine, though...it goes so nicely with cheese, and I *love* cheese!

Anyone know how to make Vodka? Seriously?

My Grandma might

really? that would be cool. I heard vodka comes from rotten potatoes!

BTW I wasn't calling your grandma any names. Just typed it wrong.

vodka is kind of like sour mash whiskey. Fermented potatoes then distilled. Easy enough to do but dang! some wicked.

I'll stick to wine.

I'm curious Chef Garry, how would one go about making wine and vodka for example?

Oh Yeah!! Let's turn this into a site of alcoholics. hehe.

Sounds Good

Wine? Bleh. Beer? Bleh. Bacardi O w/sprite? Yum. What's rum made from again?

I just had to send like 12 bags of JackD wood smoker chips to my hubby, he's In Saudi, they make their own, kinda like EverClear....anyways the JD chips flavor the stuff and... waaaaaalaaaa JD on the rocks

It would be neat to make your own wine and I"ve thought about it, one day when I get brave but I'll stick to vodka paralizers for now

Ever had mead? Its acutally pretty good.

I think from some plant that Bats help Pollinate which is where the Bacardi Logo comes from.

It is also why Bacardi donates so much money from each bottle sold to their preservation, at least that is what a Caver friend told me once.

Yeah my Uncle makes his own wine. He won first place 3 years in a row down here, beating out his own father.

It's actually almost wine season, and he's got 20 huge barrels ready. You know where I'll be .

Hmm, let me guess DJ, joining Alcoholics Anomymous?lol. J/K

Yes. Coming from a long line of country folk I have to admit to a bit of moonshining. Blackberry wine is a favorite. I've also quite a beer making apparatus in an old shed. However, all receipes are top secret. Sorry. >

Darn Old Crab,
That Blackberry wine sounds good.

A long long time ago I made my own wine the old fashioned way, right down to squeezing the grapes in a wine press. I would keep constant watch on the casks, periodically adding sugar to raise the alcohol level to where I liked it. I learned the process from my best friend's father who was an Italian immigrant and carried the recipe with him from the old country. It was a great hobby and very rewarding when the final product was ready for sampling. However, it was very time consuming. Eventually I stopped doing it as life started getting in the way.

I would recommend the hobby to anyone if they have the time and patience.


P.S.

There are a number of people here at WinCustomize who should be very adept at making wine. They do it almost daily......, oh no, sorry, that's spelled w-h-i-n-e.

I have an apple tree in the back yard. The apples are really small and not particularly useful. Not crabapples just smallapples.

I mashed them up and added water and yeast and made a pretty good apple wine for a few years but that's a lot of work. Mostly I use grape concentrate.

Rum is fermented sugar cane Hus. I don't mind it with water but adding pop is just too sweet.

I used to make wines, it's actually rather easy.

The trick is getting the right yeast for the type of wine you're making.

I made 5 gallons of Maderia once and it tasted rotten. Ended up putting it into gallon jugs and put it in my attic. I forgot about it for 4 years then found it when I was removing a closet wall. It was GOOD, found out that Mederia needs to be heated to blend the various ingredients and mellow the wine out.

Another good wine was banana, you need to boil the fruit to extract the glycerine and use the resulting mash as a base.

Still have all of the equipment to make the stuff, now if only I hadn't given up drinking...........

tested = tasted