Homemade Wine

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This wine making recipe yields easy homemade wine. You can choose whatever flavor you like, but my favorite is red. To complete this project, you will need a sterile milk jug, a large latex balloon, and a rubber band. This wine is a bit stronger than regular table wine and is excellent for cooking and drinking.

looking at two full glass bottles of homemade wine
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Prep Time:
5 mins
Additional Time:
42 days
Total Time:
42 days 5 mins
Servings:
32
Yield:
1 gallon
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Ingredients

Original recipe (1X) yields 32 servings

  • 4 cups sugar

  • 1 (12 fluid ounce) can frozen juice concentrate - any flavor except citrus, thawed

  • 1 (.25 ounce) package active dry yeast

  • 3 ½ quarts cold water, or as needed

Directions

  1. Gather all ingredients.

    all ingredients gathered to make homemade wine

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  2. Combine sugar, juice concentrate, and yeast in a 1-gallon 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.

  3. Rinse out a large balloon; fit it over the opening of the jug. Secure the balloon with a rubber band.

    all ingredients shaken together in a large glass jug, then a large balloon placed over the opening being secured with a rubber band.

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  4. 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.

    balloon filled up with gasses from the homemade wine

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  5. When the balloon has deflated, wine is ready to drink. It takes about 6 weeks total.

    balloon has deflated over the jug, and it's ready to drink.

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Note

Use a frozen juice concentrate without added sweeteners for best results.

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