> CP wrote --
>> Is okay, we've got many gallons of home-made fruit wine stashed away under
> the stairs
> My mother once got into wine making at home.  (She wasn't a wine
> drinker).
> She would use concentrated frozen grape juice as a base and added this,
> that ant the other as the recipe called for.
> That was really nasty tasting stuff.  But everyone told her how good it
> was so she would make more of it.
> Not to hurt her feelings they accepted it and then poured it down the
> drain later.  :)
> After a few months the novelty wore off and she found something else as
> a hobby.

My ewife's uses an old family recipe from up in the boonies of Quebec & is  based mosdtly only on the key things: fruit
sugar
the right kind of yeast
stirring the sludge daily (oranges made a wine that bubbled violently in the  fermenter! It wasn't sparkling once opured & corked, but was POTENT(think  tequila, but a wee bit fruitier))

A little dab'll do ya! I'm happy with just a shot or two at a time of any of  them, for sipping all evening on a cold winter's night. . .

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