Anyone here make their own wine?

I've been making my own wine for quite some time. Everyone should try it as it's so incredibly easy.

I mostly make fruit wine because good grape juice is hard to come by here in DK and it's to expensive, so I just look out for fruit juices on sale and buy a shitload when it's cheap. Just gotta buy the ones that say no preservatives and you'r good to go.

Did I mention that this is cheap? you can make fantastic fruit wines for less than a dollar a bottle!

All you need to get started is a 5 gallon container, plastic food grade is fine, no need for fancy glass carboys ask some store if you can have a couple of thier used containers, a hydrometer and a packet of yeast.

You can make do without the hydrometer but it's only like 10-15$ and it makes everything so much easier.

Total price under 30$ and that's a one time investment, after that it's just the fruit juice, sugar and yeast.

Here's my recipe that can be used for any type of fruit wine.

Buy 20 liters/5 gallons worth of whatever fruit juice you'd like.

Buy a packet of yeast of the type "Champagne", these are the hardiest and will kill off any other bacteria if present. Champagne yeast will also ferment to 18% alcohol if that's what you want (I do hehe)

Dump a liter of fruit juice in a bowl and stick your hydrometer in there. There's a scale on it that says "Potential Alcohol". Add enough sugar to the juice and dissolve it until it's at the alcohol % you'd like, make sure to weigh the sugar. I useually go for around 13% at this point, don't go to the full 18% because that will probably shock the yeast and could kill it. Now you know how much sugar to add for one liter, so just multiply that up for however many liters you make. I dissolve the total sugar in another liter of juice in a pot on the stove.

That first liter you used to measure how much sugar you need can be used to make a "starter" Dump the packet of yeast in it and DONT stir. Leave it someplace warm over night. If it starts to fizz up and make sort of a cake on top of the juice you got liftoff.

Dump the rest of the juice in your container, dump the sugar you mixed and swish it around, and finally dump the starter in there. Put on the airlock and you'r done. Total time an hour or so.

After about 7 days grab a sample and measure the potential alcohol %, it will have gone down now as all it's measuring realy is the sugar content. When it's at about 2% you can add some more sugar if you'r going for a high alcohol % or if you'r satisfied with 12-13% just syphon everything into another container making sure not to suck up the sludge at the botton (Dead yeast cells) and start drinking. The longer you leave it the more clear it becomes but the cloudiness is just some yeast cells so have at it D

Voila, knock you on your ass fruit wine

This is also great stuff if you'r throwing a party, cheap as chips. Just make sure to warn your guests that this is a lot more potent than it tastes. People that isn't used to it tend to chug it down like lemonade with hillarious consequences hehe.

EDIT: Forgot about the airlock. It's just a curved tube that costs about a dollar, you want that on the container you brew in as it will let CO2 out and no air back in.