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Homemade Wine
Ingredients
- 4 cups sugar
- 1 (12 fluid ounce) can frozen juice concentrate – any flavor except citrus, thawed
- 1 (.25 ounce) package active dry yeast
- 3.5 quarts cold water, or as needed
- 3.5 quarts cold water, or as needed
- 3.5 quarts cold water, or as needed
- 3.5 quarts cold water, or as needed
Steps
- Gather all ingredients.
- Combine sugar, juice concentrate, and yeast in a 1-gallon sterilized glass jug. Fill the jug the rest of the way with cold water. Stir or shake well until the sugar has dissolved and the mixture is well combined.
- Rinse out a large latex balloon; fit it over the opening of the jug. Secure the balloon with a rubber band.
- Place jug in a cool dark place. Within a day, you will notice the balloon starting to expand. As sugar turns to alcohol, gasses will release and fill up the balloon.
- When the balloon has deflated, remove the balloon and pour wine through a fine mesh sieve or paper filter to remove sediments that accumulated in the bottom of the jug. At this point, wine is ready to drink. The process takes about 6 weeks total.