Homemade Beer or Wine

This has probably been talked about already but has anyone had success making their own beer & is it expensive to do?

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Making beer and wine used to be a small cottage industry in our house many years ago. It's not expensive once you bought the utensils you need :- demi-johns for the wine and a small barrel for the beer and , of course, bottles and corks to put the finished product in. There used to be a small shop in our town where you could buy everything you needed. Wine can be made out of most fruit and some vegetables so, if you grow you own, that will cut down on the cost. Finally I would advise you to read up on brewing and wine making if you want good results.

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Thanks Alan, yes we have stores where you can buy kits but I was wondering if it turned out ok, ha ha.

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I made both wine and beer for many years until this happened:- our two boys were of an age where they didn't want to go on holiday with us so we went with our daughter leaving the boys at home with 70 bottles of home made beer. When we got back home there was ONE bottle of beer left.........that's when I stopped brewing and started buying, telling my boys to also buy their own beer.

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I too used to make 'country' wines darlin' - as Alan says, wines can be made from most fruits, some from flowers and some from leaves. Its also possible to make wines from weeds (stinging nettles & dendelion flowers). Parsnip wine is absolutely lethal!!! and it is also possible to make liqueuers too.

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Ha ha! They were just showing you their appreciation for your moonshining talents