Homemade Wine

This wine making recipe yields easy homemade wine with sugar, frozen juice concentrate, and yeast using a gallon jug, latex balloon, and rubber band.

• Preparation Time: 5 mins
• Total Time: 5 mins

Ingredients

• 1 (.25 ounce) package active dry yeast
• 4 cups sugar
• 3.5 quarts cold water, or as needed
• 1 (12 fluid ounce) can frozen juice concentrate - any flavor except citrus, thaw

Recipe Instructions

Step 1

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

Step 2

Gather all ingredients.

Step 3

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.

Step 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.

Step 5

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