Homebrew wine £1.50 a bottle in about 1 week. (all steps shown)

Merry Christmas, mate.

I've been making wine and beer for 20+ years - If you need any advice, feel free to ask.

It's a cracking hobby and very rewarding. My all-grain beers are particularly impressive. With wines, I find that in general, the more you pay, the better the kit.

Nice one Fred. I'm tempted to have a go at the Pinot Grigio kit 🤔

cor fred you are a man of many talents ! I love your recommendation for 'bigger jugs' - i will be sure to try out bigger jugs ! Sorry to hear about your premature eruption. I enjoy a nice bottle of chianti, but being the bad person i am do enjoy a 'blue nun' once in a while :D

Been there dun it got the T shirt 👍. Another interesting hobby great stuff.

Good video MR Fred
I started a few years ago make wine but from scratch it nice do it your self next year I'm try my hand
At making mead as I have bee's

Tried those... makes good wine😊
Cherr’s Fred 😁🎅🏻☃️👍

Enjoyed that one Fred!

THANKS FRED..

I just knew that their had to be booze involved in spending all those hours in the Shed Fred :-) . Radio is a fine cover story for the wife lol .

Do they do a breakfast wine?

Fred: i would NEVER fill the brew barrel as full as that for the first two-three days, two thirds full allows for fermentation to froth up and not come over the top of the barrel. After it has settled a bit add warm water to the correct level. It will save you being in the dog house. Don't worry about air affecting the wine, it will replace it with CO2 in no time. After it calms down a bit top it up and it will ferment in no time. You are making it the expensive way though by buying the full kit. You can but the concentrate, finning. yeast, and any other additive you want separately, half the cost. You can use baby's bottle steriliser fluid to clean everything.
A very good tasty wine to try making is Elderberry. Blackberry is also very good. Using concentrate is quicker. But don't fill the barrel to the top for the first two three days
.EDIT: You also get a bigger air lock for barrels, that looks like one for a demijohn, barrel ones are almost twice the size but will still fit the rubber bung, it holds more water with less risk of the water being thrown out by the co2

i used to brew my own beer i think im going to give this a go for the mrs and the beer for me lol

Used to make wine, lager, bitter and stout using the youngs kits from boots when I was 17yo back in the 80s in my bedroom it used to smell like a brewery. I used glucose powder instead of sugar as it takes away that homebrew taste.

im not keen on adding so many chemicals,flavourings,enhancers etc.Why not make wine the natural long way ? good show.

I stopped drinking 6 months ago Fred, this was the first Christmas alcohol free, I was getting a bit silly mate, those 29 bottles you made and drank over months, for me at the point I was at would have taken me about 2 weeks to finish, I would probably have had 4-5 bottles every other day, one bottle strait after the other, as I was a rather bad Binge drinker. Very interesting video though mate.

Do not participate in the products of alcohol.

Good stuff fred its decent stuff have tried a few kits now im doing the turbo cider mega cheap but you have to be careful its strong stuff.

Thanks for sharing this Fred …. will definitely be having a go at this

Is it better to leave the wine to mature in the barrel or in the bottle??

I've had one of these kits since Christmas and I'm going to start it next week. Do you know if you could repeat the process but with adding fruit into the jug along with the sugar? I have rhubarb growing in my garden and if I can simply add some to the mix then I'd love to try it!

Thanks for uploading this, very informative!

Huge thank you - you might just have saved my wine and my walls as I hadn't fixed the lid on fermenting bucket properly. Phew!

I started using a blow off tube instead of an airlock. I made my own that use L bends so the tube comes out of the top of the demijohn at a right angle, all very smart if I say so myself! Each batch is being done better than the last. 🙂

Thanks for the great tutorial I made my first wine batch a week ago with very poor results. it never mentioned in the instructions to add sugar maybe I am being thick because what I have in affect is alcohol free wine.

Great informative video, and didn't feel at all too long. Cheers.

Great video

what happens if the water you pour in at the beginning is too hot? will it effect the fermentation.

I found finings to be so effective it wouldn't matter if it was stirred, but it needs to be degassed somehow before finings is added.