Lester Loyer's Recipe

Homemade Wine #1

Category: homemade wine

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

Re-hydrate yeast by adding yeast to 1/3 cup tepid water let set till yeast turns to a paste stir till all yeast is desalved.

Combine 4 cups sugar to 2 cups water in pan and boil till sugar is desalved add sugar water to jug. along with the juicefill jug with cold water till it ia 3/4 full.

2.Combine the sugar and juice with cold water in the jug then add the yeast.
top up jug with cold water and fit with airlock.

3.Place jug in a cool dark place. Within a day you will notice the air lock starting to bubble. As the sugar turns to alcohol the gasses released will cause the airlock to bubble. When the bubbling stops or about a bubble every 15 seconds the wine is ready to drink. It takes about 4 weeks total. Either drink straight from the jug or bottle.