It started over a month and a half ago. I found an insane pin on Pinterest… I could make 4L of wine for only $1.50?! SOLD! Maybe it’s the French blood that’s surging through my veins but I suddenly had delusions of becoming a winemaker.
I knew I could achieve this “dream” despite manufacturing my vino in the basement of my 3 bedroom townhouse. Armed with a 4L water jug, some yeast, sugar, a can of frozen grape juice, and a balloon, I went to work manufacturing my “liquid gold”.
Here’s a picture of my state-of-the-art wine-making equipment.
Fast-forward six long weeks and here are the results. Not exactly “gold”… more like murky, cloudy water from the bottom of your dishwasher.
Despite it’s appearance, I had to try it.
The taste? Sickeningly sweet.
I had to water it down to make it tolerable.
The alcohol content? I have no idea but half a glass and I was quite inebriated… maybe that’s from the plastic of the jug that broke down during the brewing process and rushed up to my brain.
So, my friends, wine-making isn’t going on the resume of this Albertan girl.
However, I have a few ideas for the name of this wine. I’m debating between: Velvet Fog, Murky Nun, or Vino Gris. What do you think? Do you have any great names for my concoction?
If you’ve read this posting and for some crazy reason you’re interested in this wine-making experiment, instructions to make this vino can be found HERE.
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You actually tried making wine, that is very cool!
So what went wrong. Did you ask the person from the pin any questions about it? I actually follow a woman named Stacy at http://stacysrandomthoughts.com/ who actually makes wine all the time. Thank you for stopping over. You are a no reply so I could not comment back to you from your comment. So nice to meet you. Debby
Ooooh, thanks for the tip, I’ll have to check out her blog!
I didn’t realize I was a ‘no reply’. I just changed my settings… hopefully it won’t be a problem from now on.
Love Velvet Fog — that is awesome name. LOL
my sister makes her own wine, but red. it’s actually not too bad.
especially I don’t have to go on the adventure of making it myself :)
Velvet Fog it is (at least for you) LOL!
I’m tempted to try this again… just rethinking the process.
Not in my little apartment am I going to try to make wine! I salute you for trying–perhaps add some sugar to make it sweeter?