2006-09-27 20:36:41 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Food & Drink ➔ Beer, Wine & Spirits
Buying a kit will actually produce inferior results to doing the whole thing from scratch...and correctly.
Any shortcuts from doing it correctly will yield alcohol, but taste like monkey butt. If you don't care about what it tastes like and just want to get sloshed, here goes:
Get a 5 gallon bucket, fill it with 10 lbs of sugar, the juice of 2 lemons, and a can of tomato paste. Boil 4 1/2 gallons of water and dissolve the contents of the bucket in the water, stirring up well. Put a tight lid on it. When it cools to room temperature, stir in a packet or three of rapid-rise baking yeast.
Let it sit for 3 weeks...no less. You'll have a funky mix that will give you about 12% alcohol.
If you want it to actually taste GOOD, try the instructions here:
http://howtobrew.com
http://winemaking.jackkeller.net/
2006-09-28 11:07:29 · answer #1 · answered by Trid 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Short answer: a pound of table sugar in a gallon of water gives you about 5% abv in about 2-4 days.
More detail: The source of sugar you use dictates the flavor you will get. Wine is different than hard cider is different than beer, right?
The most important things to think about are the type of yeast you will use and the care in sanitation you will follow. Both will have a profound impact on the flavor of the drink.
2006-09-28 14:37:37 · answer #2 · answered by Brewfun 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You can make your own wine, cider and perry (like cider but made from pears) from cheap, bruised fruit without a kit very cheaply and safely. My mother in Britain used to make damson and plum wine in the early 1950s. But making beer from scratch without a kit by malting your own wheat, rice or barley, is far more trouble than it's worth. It will take you a long time to learn how to do it too. A maltster is a skilled tradesman. Buy yourself a kit. I make my own vodka, but I use commercially available equipment and kits. If you try to distil your own spirits, unless you're an expert, you can poison yourself.
2006-09-28 03:52:17 · answer #3 · answered by zee_prime 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You will need a five gallon jug like a water cooler jug, saran wrap or zip lock bags and rubber bands, five gallons of pure fresh fruit juice without preservatives, several pounds of sugar and a couple of packages of winemakers yeast. There are plenty of recipes on the internet that will now give you the details on how to make wine with the equipment I just told you about. I did it. Good luck and have fun.
2006-09-28 13:51:15 · answer #4 · answered by COACH 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you take a UPC box of grape juice and open it and then leave it in your fridge for a really long time, it will certainly start to ferment. I am not sure if it will become alcoholic just from that though.
2006-09-28 03:46:29 · answer #5 · answered by surlygurl 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Get a 5 gallon water jug. Thats your fermenter. Add water, sugar, flavoring(ie malts, hops etc), yeast and then close the lid and wait .
2006-09-28 07:23:21 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
You either have to brew it, distill it, or synthesize it. All of these will require the purchase of hardware and some good research time.
2006-09-28 03:44:42 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
go to a library or search through a search engine..don't ask me
2006-09-28 03:43:48 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋