We Frugals enjoy a good glass of vino, 'it's good for the heart', Dr. M tells us and we want to follow our good doctor's advice.
As we have been sampling a variety of wines, we have come across a problem. The first one is that we like wine. The second one is we really like wine. The problem is finding that good, stable and enjoying brand and style and not breaking the bank investing in our cardiac health.
We believe we have found a solution to the budgetary bottle of wine. Herr Frugal's brother-in-law, Captain Frugal is the finest connoisseur of the $7.99 bottle and we follow his advice, however we believe we found a way to a $2.00 bottle of vino.....make your own.
So, after looking at some websites, a bit of research, we tried the following:
- three cans of Welch's Grape concentrate, the pure 100% juice
- Sugar
- packet of brewing yeast
- Gallon glass jar
- Stopper with a gas lock
- Time
What we got after a couple of weeks was grape juice with a bit of alcohol, a couple of weeks later a drink, just under the quality of Andre's Cold Duck.....all at about $2.00 a bottle!
We have our second batch brewing, moved it a secondary fermenter and will bottle this batch shortly. Stay tuned, if we can get the balance right, off to the five gallon carboy's!
Here are some websites we used:
http://plaza.ufl.edu/scott28/wine.html
