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I made a makeshift one of these things when I was 14. It stank of bread. But it worked. You should get a cloth alongside your kit to strain the skins and sludge. It goes without saying but make sure your items are sterilized and sealed unless you want to waste months of progress. Have fun :p

>>270701
It's a scam. All you need to make wine is
>Grape juice
>Sugar
>Yeast (winemaker yeast is preferred, but any yeast works)
>Valve (you can make your own out of a balloon)
Mix sugar and yeast in grape juice, attach valve, wait.

>>270716
kewl

>>270716
If you want shitty prison wine with a side of botulism maybe

>>270701
the most important thing about wine are the grapes and grapes you can buy in grocery stores aren't anything like the real deal

>>270701
Id personally start with mead, its a type of wine but made with honey instead. I got my yeast from a site called brewsey and it came out pretty good

If you feel like you need all of that to make it like the hydrometer (for if you're going for a certain alcohol content %), go for it. It's not really that hard to make. All I did when I used to make it was an old 1 gallon wine bottle, sugar, a balloon, bakers yeast, and whatever I was going to make the wine from. Quite literally:
>make juice from whatever fruit you want to brew (or buy the juice outright)
>add it into the glass bottle
>add in more sugar
>add the yeast
>cap it and give it a good shake
>take the cap off
>put balloon on in place of cap
>set in a cool, dark place
>check to see if the balloon is inflated
>if inflated, let out air
>if not inflated, the yeast is done doing its job and it's time to let it age by corking it
That last one, you can distill it if you really want to up the alcohol content. Anything with sugar content can be made into an alcohol. You can even make it from dandelions.

>>271114
I heard that if you poke a pinpoint hole into the balloon it'll act like a valve and you don't have to keep deflating it.

Seems like a good way to poison yourself.. why not just spend that money on a good bottle of wine instead?

>>271126
Because we like to have fun and do things.