DIY: HOW TO MAKE DELICIOUS $1/BOTTLE WINE IN 5 MINUTES 

how the hell did you get away with pouring 4 gallons of dark grape juice into that bucket WHILST wearing a white shirt.......and not a drop of splash back...........you are blessed sir....excellent no nonsense video

I'm a wine maker and if you like making your wine this way and it tastes good, there is nothing that says you need the expensive equipment for wine making to enjoy a great glass of wine. I actually made my first batch of wine the same way as this video. Great job.

Good stuff here. I'm a wine maker myself. Something you can do to take it up a notch is to create your own yeast strain. Start with bread yeast, add to 1 qt grape juice, wait a week, take a cup of that yeast / juice mix and put in a new quart with fresh juice. Do this 3 times then brew your big batch. You have now created your own strain of yeast which has been bred to like your specific beverage.

Not going to win any awards but getting drunk with out all the taxes

Nothing says " Quality fine wine" like a Lowes bucket

Thank all of you who have posted your results. The math, measurements, and personal testimonies all concur. Over a quarter million views on my video and ONLY positive actual results from people who have used my method. Y'all are awesome!

This is the most honest video on how to make wine that I have ever seen on youtube, Thank YOU very much.

That exactly how Jesus made it. Same bucket and all.

Thanks for the question Victoria! There are several options. You can just leave it in the bucket and use a ladle if there is no spigot on your bucket. For bottling you can simply keep your Welch's jugs and transfer it back into the jugs after 3 weeks. Or you can use any clean jugs or bottles around the house. If you bottle it, DO NOT SCREW THE LIDS ON TIGHT unless you are going to keep it in the fridge. The cold makes the yeast go dormant until the temp raises again. There are also campden tablets you can buy at a wine shop or online that make the yeast go dormant. Otherwise the yeast will continue to produce carbon dioxide causing your jug to burst. Huge mess! If you want champagne, try putting some wine in a soda bottle that can take the pressure after 3 weeks, screw the lid on tight, and wait another week. Hope that helps!

"Any bucket will do, I would buy a new bucket" - sage advise, my man.

You can also do it right in the bottle the juice came in. Just pour a little out to make room for the sugar then put the lid on loosely so the CO2 can escape. Bonus: the bottle is already food grade and sanitized. As I recall I used just over a cup of sugar and 1/2 tsp yeast for a half gallon juice. Check the bottle every once in a while to make sure gasses are escaping... you don't want it to build up so much pressure that it blows the lid off lol. Put it in a closet and forget about for a couple weeks. When it's nice and clear you can siphon it into bottles or gently pour it so you don't disturb the lees (dead yeast). Make as many as you want at one time or make it weekly so you always have some ready to go! Don't be a wine snob. Whether you do it in a bucket or the bottle it came in,, give it a try... it's good stuff!

When I lived back in my hometown, I met a pet who showed me his little wine making operation. He said you can make a wine using most any kind of fruit & he was looking for a different fruit to try. I told him about our Mulberry tree that was an over abundant producer that year and perhaps he could acquire some fruit from my parents. He did and told me that it was very good. I suggested that he write a book on the subject and earn a little extra money the side from his experiment. Eventually he did and when I found his book I bought it. Everything you explained here is very much as he had explained in his process also.😃👍

My husband found your video and we tried a small batch. 3 weeks later and we LOVE IT! We bought 2 - 5 gallon buckets from Lowe’s and ordered spigots from Amazon. We just mixed everything up and have set it in a back room. Can't wait! One quick question, I noticed in your video you put your wine into Mason jars. Do you store those jars in your refrigerator or do you put some thing in to stop the yeast and leave it on your counter? Also, if you add the stuff to stop the yeast does it change the taste? PS - loved the video and the music was a perfect touch 😁👍🏻

Everybody's a critic 😒. Thanks for sharing this video, I enjoyed it 👍.

I was worried about your shirt getting stained lol

They’re appalled because you’re exposing how simple it is to make good cheap wine! Thanks by the way! Very informative!

If you used wine making yeast you can get probably twice to three times as much alcohol content. Bread making yeast won't go over 6 to 8%. Wine making yeast can go up to 18 or more percent if you want it.

My first batch of wine was made in a gallon glass jug. I used 24oz of frozen welch grape juice concentrate, 4 cups of sugar, and 1 tsp champagne yeast. I stretched a party balloon over the mouth of the jug and when it swelled completely up and fell over...the wine was ready! I've upped my game quite a bit since then but it's always a great place to start!

I like this guy. I have been making wine for almost 40 years and this guy is no nonsense and just great. Thank you. 8-)

I’ve been making wine for two years now. I make it different but if it works for you and you like the wine you are a success. Enjoyed it and have fun.

I've watched several wine brewing videos as today I'm doing my first attempt, yours is by far the most straight forward, simple, easy to understand one I've watched so thanks for that 👍

My husbands grandparents planted grapes back in the 60’s or so. They are crawling up a near by tree. They produce a lot of grapes, the deer eat them. They are not very sweet but are purple. Now I want to try it.

1st batch made.....holy cow!!!.......this works! Little bit smashed after tasting turned into a session!....thankyou bro!

The background music is spot on. Love it 🤣😂

if you're gonna take the extra step to add a spigot to your bucket why wouldn't you buy an airlock? it costs $3.

Buy a clear or white brewing bucket The plastics are the same, but the dyes in the colored buckets are harmful and can leach into your product.

my father has been making this wine for over 15yrs , he said the grape juice should be the one that states Welch's( hart healthy ) brand . ❤

Ahh 2020 was a good year. Welch's wine in a Lowes bucket has a nice bouquet. Pairs well with Kraft singles or gov't cheese.

UberDan, I like your style! I love wine, I don't usually have the $ for high dollar. I have always wondered what welches would taste like as wine since it is the best tasting grape juice. I have been wanting to make wine from my very delicious grapes, but they have seeds. I think I will run them through my jucier and give it a go. Nothing ventured nothing gained!

Btw...if you return an old beat up bucket (even a Home Depot one) Lowe’s will will give you a NEW bucket.

That really was the clearest explanation of the fermentation process for making homebrew that I have ever seen. Thanks!

Im def trying this

Best wine making video. Simple and easy

Hey Dan good video, here's a tip for you. You can make a bubbler for your wine bucket very easily just take a small pop bottle like 12 or 16 oz bottle and get some aquarium air pump line like quarter inch clear line or so poke 2 holes in the cap of the pop bottle put the air line in one of the holes push the line ALMOST to the bottom of the bottle the other hole is so pressure dont build up in the pop bottle, drill a matching hole in the 5 gal. Bucket lid and put the other end of the air line in the bucket lid an inch or so above the water line in the bucket use some teflon tape if you want to get a good seal then fill the pop bottle about halfway full of water in the pop bottle make sure the air line is down in the water this let's the co2 escape and don't let air and bad bacteria into the bucket this is called a bubbler and works great I have used it plenty over the years. Well that's the tip of the day, hope this will help.

Great video. Always use clean sterilized utensils, jugs, buckets, and bottles/jars, airlocks, plugs/bungs. Oxiclean is great for cleaning winemaking and beer brewing equipment. Things to consider Temperature during fermentation and "racking" (move the wine to another jug or bucket, or barrel). The lower the liquid temperature of the "primary" (1st jug/bucket/carboy used) the longer it will take the juice to ferment. Depending on the yeast type, lower temps (in the range 65-70) can make a more flavorful wine. If you want to speed up fermentation, then keep the juice fermenting in the primary between 72 - 80-F degrees. Fermenting at too high a temperature (above 80) will cause off-flavors, that can affect the taste of the wine and guarantee a for sure hangover. After three weeks fermenting in the primary "rack"- means siphon wine (leaving the sludge at the bottom in the primary fermenter) to another clean/sterilized jug/bucket (secondary) big enough to hold all liquid contents. Cover opening in secondary with plug or cap. Shake the wine in the jug gently for 3 seconds, then open the lid/cap to release the gases. If using a bucket stir wine with a long plastic sterilized spoon for 15 minutes, then transfer the wine to multiple jugs or larger water bottle. Yes, it will foam up like soda pop, so don't get too aggressive with the shaking. Repeat gentle shaking until there is less foaming (shake altogether for about 5 minutes). After you are done shaking wine in secondary, leave the lid/cap off for about 5 minutes, as more gas will escape. Why shake? to get rid of the foul gases in your newly created wine. After 5 minutes add a clean plug airlock/bubbler to your secondary jug and let the wine sit for three weeks in dark cool (less than 80-f) area. The wine will continue to clear and additional sediment will fall to the bottom of the jug, and the wine will become better tasting. Transfer/siphon contents from secondary to a clean/sanitized jug capable of holding the contents. Careful to leave the sediment behind in the secondary. Repeat gentle shaking as described above, until foaming fizzing is almost non-existent. You now can drink your wine, or age it longer, bottle it. For the frugal, plastic quart-size juice jugs work great for storing wine, or smaller plastic water bottles, empty vodka, or other liqueur bottles. Now you might have already drunk the wine? If that works for you then fantastic. This is not considering any back-sweetening or other after the fermenting process. If you want your wine sweeter add a little sugar to your wine glass before drinking it. Or add a little soda-pop or juice like cranberry or other berry juice. How about a dash of black coffee, a small handful of walnuts (let soak for a couple of minutes), sliced fruit. Make wine coolers. This is your wine, it's your creation. Also, try making other wines such as apple juice, or use other fruit juices, and flavored non-diet lemonades As stated in the video, make sure there are no preservatives in the juice that you will use for fermentation. Fall tip: with apple juice add 1/2 cup of brown sugar along with the other sugar to the primary fermenter, in the secondary fermenter add a cinnamon stick. Recommended wine yeast. Lalvin EC1118 ferments to 18%, Lalvin 71 B keeps fruity flavors. Add 1/2 teaspoon per gallon, or one entire packet of yeast for 5 gallons. FYI-Lowes sells food-grade white buckets for under $5. I ferment my apple juice in the jug it came in, that way it is already sterile. Take out two cups of juice to make room for the 3 cups of sugar. Add and Shake sugar in the apple juice jug vigorously. Add 1/2 teaspoon of yeast. Put the cap back on loosely, or cover the opening with a coffee filter and secure with a rubber band to hold the paper towel (bug filter). Or drill a 3/8 hole in the center of the cap, and add an airlock, tight fit. Sterile a balloon and poke ten pinholes in it and secure to the opening of jug/bottle. Ok, I can go on, but hopefully, this has given you some ideas to make inexpensive decent wine, and some better decision.

This makes my Irish 🍀 soul so happy. Husband and I just began seasonal caretaking on a private island in Canada. We live on our sailboat, but look after the land. Provisions and supplies are limited by the ability to get off the island to a store. I prepare all our food from stores onboard that would be typical to an ocean crossing. Now that I have a stationary food storage cellar on land, I can make wine! I have reviewed oodles of sites and yours is the best! Can't wait to get started. Now we can drink wine and save the Bushmills for truly special occasions! ⚓💋🍷

you lied.. i waited 5 minutes and there was no wine. whats an alcholic to do?

Thank you so much , you explained in a simple uncomplicated way . I'm going to try it out and I'll get back to you . Thanks and God Bless you and your family.

Dear My Brother ...., you are my hero. Seriously I mean it cos I made this.., this wine!!! Wine ...

Love this vid! Middle finger to any complainers I mean how did they think our ancestors made it? They damn sure didn’t have all the fancy tools and machinery like wineries of today lol

Excellent video; very entertaining and informative; no nonsense approach

I have been brewing using this method for over 12 years and using different juices plus combination of flavors. I have brewed beer over 14 years.

After the process is complete. What kind of shelf life does it have before it goes bad with no preservatives?

Just saw this now. Excellent info. and easy to do. Good job brother! 👊👍✌

Best video I've seen on the larger quantity. I've been doing it in the juice bottle. Thanks. I like the way you did the lid. No airlock. I'm a simple man. The spicket at the bottom is pretty clever. Extra work but makes things simpler later. I'm not worried about what the snobs think. I'm taking my dewalt drill w/paint mixer attachment to stir in the sugar and yeast. It'll clean and sterilize in the dish washer. Anyway, thanks again for an easy way to make larger quantities and save more money. 👍✌

Looks like a good wine making recipe but the back ground music/ song is so loud and annoying !

Made this and transferred to wine bottles. I got fuuuucked up off just one bottle. 👍

I like making freestyle red wine, too. Kosher for Passover grape juice makes great wine and if I can get a good price on it (right after Passover the local supermarket has it reduced for quick sale) I'll add as many bottles as I can get. For a five gallon batch, I will add ten cans of thawed frozen grape juice concentrate along with five pounds of sugar and enough water to top it off to five gallons. It makes a nice sweet table wine that tastes a lot like Moegen David. Like your wine, it is not one for the wine snob, but it disappears as fast as I can make it.

Nothing like a killer buzz from homemade wine . Getting drunk as hell and getting the shits . Nothing like sitting on the toilet high as hell , DIZZY and trying to wipe your ass . LOL

The only method I would as is: Stir the juice and water before you add the yeast. Then take the bucket and put it where you will let it ferment. Add the yeast (without stirring) after the juice has stopped sloshing around in the bucket. Put the lid on where you intend to ferment. This way the yeast doesn't end up sticking to the sides of the bucket and potentially get bits of it when you drain it.

4 gal 100% grape juice. 5 lbs cane suger. 1 packet of yeast. Tastes like mogan david 20/20 or wild itsh rose. At 12 %

Wine snobs can cork themselves! It's not the best wine but you could do a sangria or cooler mixed with slice or Sprite soda and it's wonderful

Im drunk just watching this lowes bucket grape wine......red red wine video 🍷🍷😎😁

Been bing watching wine making videos. Your is the best! straight to the point, ending has measurements, and of course the redwine song is a great bonus! Thanks

Very informative! I think it's awesome that you had that song playing in the background. Lol

It looks so easy to do. But I had to watch it a few times because the music is just too distracting. Any more videos please leave background music out

I'm totally CLUELESS when it comes to converting and working out ratios for smaller batches. Anyone out there who could convert the above quantities to yield a 5 L batch? Much appreciated.

Excellent info. I have done the same with apple juice to make alcoholic apple cider. I didn’t use any sugar just bakers yeast. Came out very dry but I liked it.

When the zomie applolyps happens, I'll be ready. I'll ejoy some wine until they come and get me.

Love the vid, very informative! Don't want to be a party poopers, the music in the background was distracting a bit, otherwise really good info. Thanks😊

I use grape juice concentrate then add water will I get to the alcohol level I want. This way I don't have to add any suger all the suger comes from the grape juice and it gives a stronger grape flavor.

It's those kind of self sufficient things that we need . Good job man. Proud of your skills. We in a country with some of the most skill lacking people on Earth an that's truth

They sale food grade buckets at the tractor store for 2.99 great for kombucha other ferments

On my way to get my grape juice thanks for the info bro

How long you let it sit before you can drink ? 3 weeks will be ready ? or need to sit in bottle and let it sit for a year ?

I'm good with all of this but for me I'll go the extra mile and buy a food safe bucket. It's just me. I'm delicate.

It’s Mother’s Day today and I’m going to do this as a fun way to celebrate today! I have all my ingredients and I’m ready to go! You say that this will be ready to drink in just 21 days?? I’m so excited! Thank you so much for sharing your experiences! Wish me luck! 👍💁

Thanks for the info I used to help an Italian lady back in 1970 she had a wooden barrel from a Kentucky distillery lying on its side . She got grape juice fro Columbus Ohio vineyard . 5 five gallon bottles down the bunghole then sugar and water to the top , she put a smal tube in the hole and poured melted paraffin and sealed it but the other end in a bucket of water , when the bubbles stopped the wine was ready , that was great wine

Make my own Mad Dog 20/20? Woot!

Red red wine in the background! Lol....

I worked at lowes,these are not food grade buckets,only meant for things other than food.If you are ok with chemicals going into your body this bucket is for you.

WOW! a box of wine is 6 bottles of wine but a LOWES bucket is 6 gallons

Nice video . I won’t to get a juicer and do muscadine wine from vines at home. How would juice water mix work . Would it be 1/4 cup juice to 3/4 cup water ? I’m new to all this. But I do have a filter system to use for racking it . Thanks

I love this video. It's basically how to make old fashioned homemade wine in a suburban environment. You will fit right in if you ever go to prison.

Not so fast-if fermentation is not complete your bottles will explode. By a whip attachment for your drill. No bubbles no troubles.

I have a friend who has a bottle of 100 percent grape juice, Welch's. She added four cups of water to the juice before the wine making process, and she said it works. She just put her cloth covering over the bottle and let it do the fermentation process. She's done it before and it worked for her with the added water, but not too much water added to wreck the fermentation. She makes wine without the yeast and sugar. Just air.

Excellent video... except for the loud background noise/music We just want to HEAR you TALK... no background noise/music need. Thank you for sharing this great video.

You couldnt have picked a better song to play in the backround lol

Love it !!

Use a glass water bottle. And youll never use plastic again

Correction: Those Buckets in 2023 are about $5.00 each the lid $3.00 each I know because I just bought about 24 of these to move with... Home Depot has the best (not cheapest) buckets... heavy duty lids. Walmart has the cheaper buckets/lids.

I wish welches grape juice cost that cheap where I live. It's like 5-7$ a bottle ffs

Thanks for sharing will definitely try it

Thank you for making this so simple and along with the recipe as well as the yeast measurements. Thanks Bro. for sharing!

⛔PLEASE BE CAUTIOUS with this recipe especially in confined spaces like apartments. Fermentation produces carbon dioxide, in which breathing excessive amounts in poorly ventilated areas can cause headache and dizziness.⛔

Made a batch of wine using your method. Gave several bottles away and I'm getting lots of requests for more. Everyone loved it (including me. It's all gone now. :D ) Thanks for a great recipe and video. Starting a new batch this weekend!

First batch done, turned out perfect. The money I could have saved over the years...Thanks for the great video!

Informative video, but the music is annoying as Hell.

For two liters can use 1/2 kg of sugar ???

not a wine drinker but I'm going to give this a shot

Well done!

Thank you. Some of us would never try this if it were not simplified. But I have a knack for screwing things up so I'm thinking I might want to pasteurize once I get it where I want it.

Normal yeast will yield 18 to 20% at 1 cup sugar per litre. Yes it consumes all the sugar. Extra sugar doesnt make it sweeter it makes it stronger, but 20% is max with regular yeast, not 12% 3/4 cup sugar per litre will yield 12%. Sweetening comes AFTER the fermentation by adding sugar (or honey); and adding sulphites is required to prevent re fermenting or bottles would explode. If there is remaining sugar, and fermenting restarts in a sealed bottle..you have a problem. Also, any juice will work as long as not artificially sweetened. Ive made dozens of flavors and combinations. Even water can be made into alcohol..dont even need juice.

How long will it last in the mason jars? Do you leave the bottles out or place in the fridge? Thanks

I made my first last month( just a half gallon)and it came out really good. I just started my second batch two days ago doing five half gallons. All different flavoring

Just love all the goofball wine know it all snobs commenting with their dribble. This video is like showing a cross to a vampire..

Thank's UberDan. This is the best Video I've seen on making homemade Wine. It's uncomplicated and straight to the point. A1.

can I do this in a gallon water plastic jug so I can only do one gallon at a time is that possible, and just leave the cap sit on top so it can burp

Bread yeast only yield like 5-12% alcohol. If you want stronger strengh use a diff yeast guys.

The only thing I would add, do not use those blue lowes buckets they are not food grade and will leech all kinds of nasty stuff into the wine. It's only $5 for a brand new food grade bucket at lowes go for that instead.