| What if you could create delicious, fine wines | | | | pears, apricots, apples, grapes, or any other kind |
| from the comfort of your own home? What if | | | | of fruit that you can buy canned. The fruit should |
| the wine you created tasted better than what | | | | be 100% fruit. |
| you can buy at the store? What if I told you that | | | | Tie the top of the stocking then drop it into the |
| this was not only possbile, but that the cost would | | | | bucket. Use the spoon and mash up the fruit so |
| be about a dollar a bottle? | | | | that it gets squishy and pulpy. Swish and stir it to |
| The last bottle of wine I had cost me 90 cents. It | | | | get as much of the fruit juice out of the stocking |
| was somewhere between a Merlot and a | | | | as possible. |
| Cabernet in flavor, full bodied with a hint of | | | | Now, add the yeast by sprinkling it over the top |
| blackberry. The best part was that I made it | | | | of the bucket and give it a stir. Add enough |
| myself. I even bottled it in reused bottles and put | | | | water to the bucket so that it is 3/4 full. At this |
| my own label on it. | | | | point, place a towel or some other loose covering |
| Are you ready to take a journey down the | | | | over the bucket. All you have to do now is wait 7 |
| homemade wine path? Here's how to make your | | | | days. Within 24 hours you should see the mixture |
| own wine from simple household ingredients. | | | | start bubbling away! That is FERMENTATION |
| All you need to get started is a few things... a | | | | happening. |
| NEW plastic 2 gallon bucket, 5 12 ounce cans of | | | | At the end of 7 days, carefully, without disturbing |
| fruit, a nylon stocking, some baker's yeast, 4 | | | | the sediment in the bottom, pick up the nylon |
| cups of sugar, a few balloons, and enough empty | | | | stocking and squeeze it out over the bucket. Let |
| pastic pop bottle to hold what you are going to | | | | the bucket sit for another 24 hours. |
| make. | | | | Carefully pour the wine into the pop bottles. It |
| The first step is to clean and sanitize the bucket, | | | | should be relatively clear. Be sure not to get any |
| the stocking, and a stirring utensil (a large spoon | | | | of the sediment in the bottom of the bucket. Put |
| will do). These items must be very clean and | | | | a balloon over the top of each pop bottle and let |
| sanitary. | | | | sit for another week or two. At the end of the |
| Fill the bucket half full of warm water. Disolve the | | | | second week, you can pour the wine off the |
| 4 cups of sugar into the water. Open the cans of | | | | sediemtn that has formed in the bottom of the |
| fruit and, holding the stocking over the bucket, | | | | bottles and you should have very good, drinkable |
| pour the fruit into the stocking. This could be | | | | wine. |