Homemade Wine Recipe
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Homemade Wine

By: MSGYPSYLEE 
"This is an easy recipe for homemade wine. You can choose whatever flavor you like but my favorite is the red. You will need a sterile milk jug, a large latex balloon and a rubber band to complete the project. This Wine is a bit stronger than regular table wine. Its great for cooking as well as drinking."

This Kitchen Approved Recipe has an average star rating of 4.2 Rate/Review | Read Reviews (70)

Prep Time:
5 Min
Ready In:
11 Days 5 Min

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Original Recipe Yield 1 gallon
 

Ingredients

  • 1 (.25 ounce) package active dry yeast
  • 4 cups sugar
  • 1 (12 fluid ounce) can frozen juice concentrate - any flavor except citrus, thawed
  • 3 1/2 quarts cold water, or as needed

Directions

  1. Combine the yeast, sugar and juice concentrate in a gallon jug. Fill the jug the rest of the way with cold water. Rinse out a large balloon, and fit it over the opening of the jug. Secure the balloon with a rubber band.
  2. Place jug in a cool dark place. Within a day you will notice the balloon starting to expand. As the sugar turns to alcohol the gasses released will fill up the balloon. When the balloon is deflated back to size the wine is ready to drink. It takes about 6 weeks total.

Footnotes

FOOTNOTE

  • Use a frozen juice concentrate without added sweeteners for best results.
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The reviewer gave this recipe 5 stars. This recipe averages a 4.2 star rating.
Reviewed on Nov. 14, 2006 by Newyear498   view full review
Although this recipe is a good one IT FAILS TO MENTION SOME VERY IMPORTANT FACTORS, which i...
The reviewer gave this recipe 5 stars. This recipe averages a 4.2 star rating.
Reviewed on Dec. 5, 2007 by JqSmith   view full review
I made this using white grape raspberry, white grape peach, and grape. The grape raspberry...
The reviewer gave this recipe 3 stars. This recipe averages a 4.2 star rating.
Reviewed on Jul. 24, 2007 by eslyter   view full review
There is a reason that wineries possess expensive, specialized equipment to produce their...
The reviewer gave this recipe 5 stars. This recipe averages a 4.2 star rating.
Reviewed on Mar. 26, 2007 by hunter17   view full review
I've never made homemade wine before, but this recipe turned out to be really awesome. I plan...
The reviewer gave this recipe 4 stars. This recipe averages a 4.2 star rating.
Reviewed on Dec. 29, 2006 by JRabbit   view full review
This was a most exciting adventure. The wine seemed to be stronger when I used real fruit...
The reviewer gave this recipe 4 stars. This recipe averages a 4.2 star rating.
Reviewed on Oct. 12, 2006 by Kyle   view full review
This recipe works very well. My wine aged in about 4 and a half weeks. This tastes just like...
The reviewer gave this recipe 5 stars. This recipe averages a 4.2 star rating.
Reviewed on Feb. 26, 2007 by Nonna   view full review
I found a recipe like this in a local newspaper...I cut the sugar back to 3 1/4 cups and my...
The reviewer gave this recipe 5 stars. This recipe averages a 4.2 star rating.
Reviewed on Nov. 30, 2005 by IZECREEMER   view full review
Never tried making wine before. I used fresh grapes that I was going to make jelly with. It...
The reviewer gave this recipe 3 stars. This recipe averages a 4.2 star rating.
Reviewed on Jan. 28, 2004 by CAPTAINSJEWEL   view full review
Have to say, this sounds exactly like the recipe me and my friend made in high school. I...
The reviewer gave this recipe 5 stars. This recipe averages a 4.2 star rating.
Reviewed on Mar. 9, 2006 by Caroline C   view full review
I didn't really know what to expect when I threw this together 8 weeks ago (I'd forgotten...

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