There are people out there that still make peapod, banana, elderflower and many other types of homemade wine, but the market is changing.
With the increase of duty on beer, lager, cider and wine, people are turning back to homebrew. Only they are finding there have been some huge changes in the last 30 years. Even in the last 10 years, there have been huge advances in the way homebrew kits are made.
In Canada, the duty on wine is so much that people hire homebrew shops to make the wine for them, there is a loop hole where the purchaser of the wine kit can help open the packet with the brewer and then leave the rest to the brewer and in a months time, return to the brewer and help them bottle the last bottle of wine, then take it all home. And for a fraction of the price if they were to buy it in a supermarket. This has caused the homebrew industry to take a huge leap forward in quality.
Did you know, most of the wine you buy from a supermarket is actually brewed and bottled here in the UK?
The grapes are picked abroad, crushed, squeezed and the juice concentrated. It is then shipped to the UK and brewed and bottled. Amazing!
Well you too can get that juice (only in smaller quantities). And with a little basic knowledge, a couple of buckets, a bit of tube, some steriliser and about 2 hours (in total) of your time, you can have 30 bottles of fantastic wine in just 21 days. Some kits are even faster – Some are ready to drink in just 7 days!!!
A good wine kits costs approx £50 and makes 30 bottles of wine. That works out at around £1.66 a bottle. In the supermarket an equivalent quality bottle of wine would cost you £6! That’s a huge saving – Over £130!!!
Ok, so the wine kit costs you say £50, the equipment needed costs another £50, that £100, over the course of just 30 bottles you’ve still saved £30.
And even better – IT’S FUN!!!
It’s time to get brewing your own wine at home - http://www.brewbitz.com/
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