Wine Making

This is something I want to try someday, maybe someday soon. I want to try this approach to get started - it looks cheap and it's supposed to produce a pretty good wine.

Equipment

• Primary Fermenter: Just a bucket, $5
• Glass Carboy: $25
• Bung and Airlock: $10
• Hoses
• Hydrometer & jar: $6
• Corker

Materials

• Sulphites
• yeast
• juice
• sugar
• bottles
• corks
• Campden / potassium metabisulfite

Notes

Look at the price per volume in bottles.

It looks like roughly a 1:4 ratio of juice to water.

Look into using frozen fruit. Watermelon wine looks good. Orange wine. Actually, some pumpkin wine recipes look good (with raisins and cinnamon). Beet wine. Lemon.

Also, look into freeze distilling in the winter.

With our water, I'll want to use a charcoal filter.

Grapes

All the grape juices I've found (at least so far) that are intended for wine-making are highly marked up. I'd like to try making it from grapes. I could do a few batches over the late summer as various types are available.