that nice thai lady also taught me how to make homemade wine.. she was a pro homeless person, she would snag these plastic vegetable oil containers out of dumpsters from behind a restaurant that were about five gallons in size, she would fill em about 3/4 full of fruit, pretty much any kind of fruit.. she said you can even use applesauce.. basically, you fill the container up with fruit and then you fill it up with water, a little bit above the fruit, and then for about the next three weeks you slowly add white sugar to it..

this old hillbilly boy that slept in our homeless camp, he looks at me one day and he asks me if i understand what is happening in that jug while the wine is brewing... no, i dont know, i replied..

he explained to me that on the fruit is bacteria, and you are slowly feeding white sugar to the bacteria, the bacteria somehow eats the sugar and when the bacteria takes a crap that is where wine comes from..

wine is bacteria poop, more or less.

dont add the sugar too quickly, just slowly feed the sugar to the bacteria.. kinda like you wouldnt put fifty pounds of dog food into your dog's bowl all at one time, right? you put a little food in the bowl, and when the bowl is empty you put more dog food into the bowl.. are you with me so far?

so how can you tell that the bacteria is feeding on the sugar or if it is finished feeding and you need to give it more sugar?

notice that there will be little air bubbles that form on the top of the water in the wine jug.. when it stops bubbling, add more sugar.

i made my first jug of wine using blackberries that i picked with my own hands, and it was absofreakinglutely amazing delicious, a hundred times better than any crap wine that i have ever had from a store or restaurant.

it takes somewhere around 3-4 weeks to make a batch, but this lady used to make several several five gallon jugs at a time and she would put them into a storage locker for future drinking.

oh yeah, one more issue... when she was making the wine, you dont have to keep it in no damm wine cellar or any of that bullshit.. she would just put the jugs over under a shade tree and let it make wine.

happy drinking.