How can I make fine wine and beer at my home?

Answer 1

Information about making wine at home:

http://winemaking.jackkeller.net/
http://www.homewinemaking.co.uk/

How to brew beer at home:

The best place to start is here:
http://howtobrew.com

Then do a google search for home brewing stores in your area. The people there are always helpful. They carry all the books you'll need, the ingredients, the tools, and so on.

If you don't have one near by, my favorite online supplier is http://morebeer.com There are tons of others, too.

Answer 2

This could potentially be a long answer. It begins with some basic ingredients that you can get from an online brewing store or a local home brewing store. By far the easiest kits for a beginner are the extract kits. If you walk into a homebrewing store, ask the clerk for the extract brewing kits and they can show you where they are. You decide on the style that you want and off you go. However, the initial investment could be substantial.

Midwest Homebrewing Supply is an excellent source of various kits from extract brewing kits, to the whole equipment kits. Some others are Northern Brewer and Austin Homebrew Supply. Midwest and Northern are both located in the Minneapolis area and its probably quite obvious where Austin is.

Try your yellow pages for a homebrew store in your area. The nice thing about Midwest is that when you buy one of their kits, it comes with a fancy DVD about the different ways to brew. I'm sure you could probably contact them and they might be able to ship one off to you so that you can watch it to see if you would be interested before investing such a large amount of money for the equipment.

The nice thing is that the same equipment that you need to make beer can be used to make wine. You simply need some extra ingredients here and there. Wine is actually much easier to make than beer as there is no boiling involved (or at least there doesn't have to be). The steep used in making beer is used to extract some proteins and certain sugars (both fermentable and unfermentable) for the yeast to eat. The boil is used to steralize and extract hop oils. When you are making wine though, the sugars are right there in the fruit with very little extra work to be done by you. Those same web stores that I mentioned above have wine making kits as well and they produce VERY fine wine.

DO NOT buy the Mr. Beer that someone else mentioned. You will not make fine beer nor fine wine with that and you will be severely dissappointed with the results.

Answer 3

While you can definitely make better beers home brewed, wines would be far more difficult. Any one telling you that you can make fine red wine from juice in small scales is pulling your legs.
The biggest difference it that fresh unpasturized beer brewed at home is the best while fine wines requires aging, especially the reds. All good or great fine wines are made with whole crushed grapes and aged in wood barrels. Just the above two are hard to achieve at home. Not to mention the fact that wines are far more delicate in handling than beer.
Do make beer at home but leave the wines to the experts for quality. Although it wouldn't hurt to make some white or fruit wines at home just for the fun of it.

Answer 4

There is a company called E.C. Kraus. They have home recipes and sell all the supplies needed. There is a simple recipe that requires concentrated fruit juice from the supermarket, sugar, water and a pack of yeast, a gallon jug and 30 days.

Answer 5

You can buy a micro brewery like the one in the link. You don't have to buy that exact one but many are avalible throughout the web.

Answer 6

Sure you can there are some great web sites. heres two


http://www.maximonline.com/articles/index.aspx?a_id=7346

http://www.winemakermag.com/yourfirstwine/grapes.html


nothing like getting high on your own supply

Answer 7

Unless your name is Robert Mondavi, you don't.