How to Make Wine - Free!

Wine kits cost $60 to $150. Sure you get 25 bottles of
wine and that's a pretty good bargain.

But is there a way to make wine free?

Yes there is and this article will tell you exactly how to
do it.

Here's a short list of the things you would normally have
to buy with your hard earned money: fruits or juices,
bottles, corks, chemicals, equipment (carboys, primarys,
siphon tubing, racking canes, etc).

The truth is that if you are really on a shoestring budget,
you can make your own wine almost totally free.

First - you can get free fruit. Where? Try this: go to
your local grocery store and have a visit with the produce
manager. Explain to him or her that you are an
accomplished home winemaker. Ask them what they do with
their over ripe fruit.

Here's what they will say: we throw it away.

The funny thing is that the fruit they throw away is ripe
fruit. It's fruit with a lot of sugar content. That is
exactly the kind of fruit we want to make wine with.

When stores get fruit shipped in, it is unripe. They have
to harvest the fruit before it gets ripe so that it slowly
ripens on it's trip to your grocery store. But even when
it arrives, it still isn't ripe.

After it sits in the store for about a week, it really gets
ripe, the sugar content goes up, and they just throw it
away. Don't let them do this!

I recently go 60 pounds of grapes and cherries absolutely
free just by asking for it. You can, too. Ripe fruit is a
terrible thing to waste. And - it's free!

The second way to get even closer to absolutely free
winemaking is by not buying wine bottles. You probably
have bars or restaurants in your area that serve wine.
Just go ask them to save the bottles for you.

If you ask them to save them, be sure and go by and pick
them up or they won't save them again for you. The best
day for them to save them is Friday and Friday night. Then
you can go by mid-day on Saturday and pick them up.
Remember to sterilize them as soon as you get them home or
you could have a moldy mess within a few days.

Next, go by a fast food restaurant and ask them to save you
2 or 3 "pickle buckets". Almost all of the fast food
chains by pickles in 5 gallon buckets. These are "food
grade" buckets - exactly what you need for your primary
fermenter.

Once you get them home, you will need to put a weak
chlorine solution in them and let them sit overnight. Then
use oxyclean or some other non-abrasive cleaner to fully
get them cleaned out.

No one likes wine that tastes like pickles. Also, those
buckets were full of vinegar - a natural enemy to home
winemakers. Make sure you clean and sterilize them
extremely well before you use them for winemaking.

Thats three of the most costly items you will need to make
your own wine. Now you know how to get them free. Happy
Winemaking!

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Mike Carraway has been making homemade wine for more than
20 years and has written books and articles on the subject.
you can check out his latest offering on homemade wine
here: http://www.how-to-make-wine.net He also offers a
free guide on winemaking here:
http://www.how-to-make-wine.net/free_book.html

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