jojabri
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Hi,
I'm Gina, and I've been lurking in the shadows reading posts and gathering information for a while now. Back in October, I stopped working my one day a week job (hosting karaoke at a bar) so my "fun money" and "fun time" was discontinued. Two things quickly occurred to me 1- I NEEDED a hobby and 2- buying booze is expensive when you have to ask your husband to pick it up or ask him for money to buy it. Might I add we're AVID wine drinkers, so when I say expensive, yeh, I mean it.
Between those two conclusions I started searching the internet for ways to make my own. Upon finding out that it isn't terribly difficult or expensive, I decided to give it a go. Following some directions I found on Youtube using plain 'ol grape or apple juice I started a few small batches. Needless to say they turned out pretty bad. They'd give you a buzz, but also put you into a mild sugar coma. From then on, even though the initial run was pretty much a bust, I was hooked. I've found a liquor store (which luckily is next door to a GFS Marketplace for cheap sugar) not too far away with a decent amount of home brewing supplies and bought all the basics.
Currently, I haven't quite yet busted into the world of using REAL fruits. because they'll be much more affordable in the summer time, in many cases for me FREE fruits. For the mean time I'm playing with the frozen grape juice concentrate recipes and other things like skeeter pee, dragon blood, jam/jelly wines, and coffee wine.
I have found it to be, thus far, a very rewarding hobby. My friends and family members are wowed that I actually make my own wine (except for the ones who have been in prison and know how it really works.) They were so amazed that I entered a bottle into our family's DIY White elephant, and it was the most "stolen" item out of 23 entries.
My husband hates that I talk constantly about my new hobby, but he hasn't had any issues with getting his drank on.
I decided to call my "brand" X-Pass. X in Greek is "Chi"... get it Chi Pass, Cheap ***. It totally speaks volumes for me as I DIY a lot of things, detergent, body wash, deodorant, fabric softener, tomato juice/salsa, and now WINE!
Hoping to make a few new friends and learn a lot about this new hobby.
Sorry (not really) about the length of this post. But I'm SOOOO EXCITED!
Cheers!
I'm Gina, and I've been lurking in the shadows reading posts and gathering information for a while now. Back in October, I stopped working my one day a week job (hosting karaoke at a bar) so my "fun money" and "fun time" was discontinued. Two things quickly occurred to me 1- I NEEDED a hobby and 2- buying booze is expensive when you have to ask your husband to pick it up or ask him for money to buy it. Might I add we're AVID wine drinkers, so when I say expensive, yeh, I mean it.
Between those two conclusions I started searching the internet for ways to make my own. Upon finding out that it isn't terribly difficult or expensive, I decided to give it a go. Following some directions I found on Youtube using plain 'ol grape or apple juice I started a few small batches. Needless to say they turned out pretty bad. They'd give you a buzz, but also put you into a mild sugar coma. From then on, even though the initial run was pretty much a bust, I was hooked. I've found a liquor store (which luckily is next door to a GFS Marketplace for cheap sugar) not too far away with a decent amount of home brewing supplies and bought all the basics.
Currently, I haven't quite yet busted into the world of using REAL fruits. because they'll be much more affordable in the summer time, in many cases for me FREE fruits. For the mean time I'm playing with the frozen grape juice concentrate recipes and other things like skeeter pee, dragon blood, jam/jelly wines, and coffee wine.
I have found it to be, thus far, a very rewarding hobby. My friends and family members are wowed that I actually make my own wine (except for the ones who have been in prison and know how it really works.) They were so amazed that I entered a bottle into our family's DIY White elephant, and it was the most "stolen" item out of 23 entries.
My husband hates that I talk constantly about my new hobby, but he hasn't had any issues with getting his drank on.
I decided to call my "brand" X-Pass. X in Greek is "Chi"... get it Chi Pass, Cheap ***. It totally speaks volumes for me as I DIY a lot of things, detergent, body wash, deodorant, fabric softener, tomato juice/salsa, and now WINE!
Hoping to make a few new friends and learn a lot about this new hobby.
Sorry (not really) about the length of this post. But I'm SOOOO EXCITED!
Cheers!
