Hobbies? Interests?

[Caprichoso]

There are two main methods of wine making; cut up your fruit or veg and cook it, drain off the juice, add sugar and wine yeast and pour into your demi john. Add an air lock to stop dust and vinegar flies getting in and ferment out (until the air lock stops bubbling). Some fruit, like apples, produce pectin, which makes your wine cloudy if you cook them, so those things you just crush and frement the pulp with water and sugar for a week or two in a bucket, and then drain off into the demi john.

Or you can do the 'cheats' way and use a litre carton of fruit juice from the supermarket, make up to a gallon with water that's had 2 or 3 pounds of sugar (depending on how sweet you want it) dissolved in it and ferment in the demi john.

Yeah, it's pretty easy to make wine, or as micko called it "prison hooch" For my crabapple wine, I quarter the apples(I leave the stems, seeds in the apple) then I freeze them because it makes it easier to get the juice out. I end up racking 3 times because I like to avoid the sediment in the bottom. The wine turned out really good last year so I'm hoping for the same result this year. I used to make fun of people who made their own beer and wine because I thought it would taste like swill but it's actually really good and you save loads of money making it yourself. The liquor stores don't get much of my business anymore!

 

[fluttermoth]

then I freeze them because it makes it easier to get the juice out.

Doh! I can't believe I didn't think of that! I've been smashing heck out of them on the patio with a rolling pin!

 

[Caprichoso]

then I freeze them because it makes it easier to get the juice out.

Doh! I can't believe I didn't think of that! I've been smashing heck out of them on the patio with a rolling pin!

Well, the bonus of that method is the fact that your neighbours will probably never mess with you

 

[fluttermoth]