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Just for fun I thought I’d try the recipe I found at the bottom of this fantastic site about making wine.

The recipe is simply:

• 3 cans of concentrated grape juice
• 1 pack of bread yeast
• 1/2 cup of sugar
• six cans of water (using the grape juice cans)
• a balloon

1. sanitize gallon jug with bleach
2. put grape juice in jug
3. put six cans of room temp water in jug
4. add 1/2 cup of sugar
5. shake shake shake
6. add rapid rise yeast package (or if using reg yeast, put in a small cup with a teaspoon of sugar and a half cup of water… let it sit for about 10 minutes or foamy and then dump in jug
7. put 5 holes in baloon with pin
8. place balloon over jug and place jug in a warm dark spot for about 2 weeks.

What a fun project. I’d recommend punching at least one hole larger than a pin prick. Otherwise you may get some overflow. It’s amazing how active the yeast can be in the right environment. I put the jug in a pantry that’s a solid 70 degrees and the concoction was bubbling like a warm, shaken can of Coke on a hot day. It almost blew the balloon off the jug.

I’ll update the site with how it tasted.