How to get drunk cheap
Greg Hollin
1. Before you do anything, make sure everything is sanitized. I donŐt want anyone getting sick, and if any bacterium gets into the wine, it will kill the yeast and stop the fermentation process, leaving you with bad grape juice.
2. Mix
grape juice with 2 parts water.
a. The
less water, the stronger the wine.
3. Mix
in just enough sugar to where it starts to turn cloudy.
a. It
would probably be best to melt the sugar into the water first to insure that it
all mixes.
4. Add half of a packet of yeast.
a. Try
not to use bread yeast. You can order wine yeast for very cheap online.
i. Wine
yeast: http://www.homebrewit.com/aisle/p/3403
b. Some
people like activating their yeast first.
i. Add
warm water and sugar to the yeast, and wait until it foams to add it to the
mixture.
5. Poke
a small hole in the lid of the container.
a. This
is to let the CO2 created during fermentation out of the container.
b. An
airlock, like below, would be better because no air can get into your mix
causing it to turn into vinegar, unlike a simple hole.
c. A
balloon with a couple of pin holes in it works too.
6. Store in a cool, dark place for 10-14 days, or until the bubbles stop.
i. This
is when the mixture is at its highest alcohol quantity. To get any higher you
would have to ferment the wine, basically condensing the alcohol.
ii. This
process also smells.
7. Run
the mixture through a coffee filter to get all of the excess sugar and yeast
out.
a. Using
a siphon will cause less of the yeast to get through, thus making a better
wine.
b. Aging
the wine will also make a better wine, but who wants to wait.
How to
brew cheap wine. 4 December 2008
<http://www.leftofme.com/how-to-brew-cheap-wine/>.
How To Make Wine Out
of Grape Juice:. 19 November 2005. 4
December 2008
<http://how2dostuff.blogspot.com/2005/11/how-to-make-wine-out-of-grape-juice.html>.
This is where I got my information, but read around and find your own too. Most importantly though, try it. ItŐs cheap, easy, and will impress the girls.