Anyone here make homemade wine?

[Feanorcurufinwe]

Just curious.

[put out]

1. Yep, and it exploded in the basement.

The moral of the story is: read the directions. Follow them.

I'd have licked it off the walls to see what it tasted like, but that's too nasty even for me.

[nankerphelge]

2. Yep...

I have 5 gallons fermenting right now and probably a hundred bottles of everything from Cabernet to merlot to Beaujolais. It's good stuff and you can cut out a lot of the sulfites you get from store bought wine.

[mitchtv]

3. I did, for years, in Sonoma Valley

Carneros- Cabernet S. Gave it up when we moved to the desert. 1990 was my best vintage only a case or two of that left.

[DBoon]

4. YES

I live in SoCal, and ripped out part of my front yard to plant Zinfandel vines. Pick, crush, press in September. Bottle in late December.

My third year of making the stuff. Out of 30 vines, 3 to 5 gallons.

I've made wine from kits as well - for practice.

[Feanorcurufinwe]

5. I actually have a lot of space

how big of an area does 30 vines take up?

[DBoon]

9. Here's what I read....

Vines should be planted in rows. Each row is 10 feet from the next. Within a row, vines are 6 feet apart.

So 30 vines would be 3 rows of 10 vines each, or 60 by 30 feet.

Our house is on a corner lot, so it's not straight lines.

[TXlib]

6. Yes, lots of mead.

And a lot of beer.

Haven't made wine from grapes, since I'm not sure how the wine from kits would turn out. I don't have a ready supply of wine grapes, either, so I'll stick with beer and mead.

I might make a pyment (grapes and honey) from a wine kit soon.

[Whitacre D_WI]

7. No, but I make my own Percoset.

The '99 is sublime.

[AZCat]

8. Aaaahhh, the memories

My buddies and I made cheap red wine back in high school to circumvent those silly age limit laws. We'd set up gallon cider jugs ('cause they were made of glass) in the basement and let the stuff ferment for a couple of weeks. It wasn't quality product, but we got what we paid for it (a coupla bucks at most).

I remember sitting in the basement, drinking that stuff from gallon milk jugs- those were the days!

:toast: , :beer: and then :puke:

We would sell off the excess for spending cash, and had a fair black market going there for a while.

Disclaimer: In no way does this post imply support for illegal activities. What is done, is done.

[cheezus]

10. nice story

you'd have been better off growing weed. easier to get a good product and decent black market value :)