Cheap Juice into Wine/Cider (Bread Yeast vs Wine Yeast)

Today we're taking some cheap juice that I got from my local Walmart and making it into wine/cider! We're using a few different kids of juices and testing whether wine yeast creates a different product than bread yeast (Spoiler: It does). I hope you enjoy this video! Please share it if you enjoyed it. Thanks for watching and have a great day!

0:00 Beginning
0:17 Starting the Ciders
7:53 Taste Test
18:28 Finish the Ciders

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[hostile_prof]

I do get using wine yeast preserves the fruit flavors, but if you're turning a $2 bottle of apple juice into alcohol let face it you're not drinking it for the taste, you're drinking it to get riggity-riggity wrecked

[mumzly]

That's cool you invited Freddie Mercury to try your hooch.

[iceflame]

Yeast: dies in its own toxic poo.
Humans: that's really good stuff.

[paulcolbourne]

You guys are the champions. It's good to break free every once in a while and take a bohemian approach to this crazy little thing called fermenting. It wouldn't be difficult to find somebody to love learning this. It's easy to do without feeling like you're under pressure. You couldn't stop me now from trying it out. You and your best friend helped show me how to get off my fat bottom and make a beverage that will rock anyone and not have to throw away old juice that otherwise would have bitten the dust.

[MGS]

I use PawPaw’s recipe.
1 cup sugar
1 quart juice
1/4 teaspoon yeast.

[jayflow]

Watching this at age 30, thinking how much easier it would’ve been to get whacked at 16 with juice and bread yeast instead of trying to get people to buy us alcohol 😂

[johnprinsloo-rempel]

He's more proud of his brew than the fact he raised Freddy Mercury from the grave

[hootiebubbabuddhabelly]

Pineapple comes with its own enzymes (excellent meat tenderizer) so there's a different sort of activity in the juices with pineapple. It would be interesting to see what would happen if you added just a little bit of pineapple juice to the other juices.

Did you know that during prohibition, people made wine from Welch's grape juice and the way they learned how to do it was that Welch's put warnings out that said, "DON'T DO THIS" - followed by instructions on how to turn grape juice into wine. ROFL! Sneaky!! Just because of that, I will always have a soft spot for Welch's.

Reminds me of the "librarian" protest where librarians all over the country weren't supposed to tell you that the FBI was trying to get at library records so they posted signs that said "We can't inform you when the FBI asks for records of what books you check out so, don't ask.". ROFL! I have a soft spot for librarians, too.

[atruefreethinker]

just a hint that I figured out on my own... put a tilt on your bottles so the yeast falls to one side of the bottle bottom. makes for cleaner syphoning and pouring.

[zurn]

When I was in the Marines we did this with sweet tea and yeast from the gally. It was horrible but it did the job

[nancyturnbough]

One reason he didn't recognize the cherry is because Juicy Juice uses an apple base, sometimes grape, and flavors it.

[bromerpimpson]

This is probably the easiest way of making alcohol I've seen, thank you

[snowballsvlogs]

Another tip is after the fermentation has finished put the juice in the fridge overnight it will clear the liquid a lot quicker and any suspended bits sink to the bottom.

[kbvca]

If you are going to make a wine without equipment then you don't need potassium sorbate to stabilize the wine. Simply add sugar (or honey or agave or maple syrup) to taste in each glass in the same way you add sugar to taste when you make tea or coffee.
Also, there is really no need to puncture the caps. All you need is a a rubber band and some cheese cloth and that is quite sufficient to prevent dirt entering and allow CO2 to escape. Most seasoned wine makers do not use an airlock in their primary (first) fermenter. They cover the container (usually a bucket or large pail) with a cloth. This allows them to punch down fruit caps that form and allows them to easily add nutrients during the course of active fermentation without any concern for the liquid erupting into volcanoes of juice and gas caused by the action of particles on the carbon dioxide gas that is saturating the wine.

[handybarker]

Great video! Thanks! I've been making hard apple cider for a couple months and have had a blast--as well as saving so much money--making my own at home like my grandfather did in the Depression. I bake all my own breads, pitas, bagels and such, and now am very happy to be making my own cider.

[thewakinghero]

I’ve been wanting to home brew and have been nervous about all the things that could go wrong. This video makes it feel a lot more simple than I’ve been thinking so thanks! Time to get me some champagne yeast!

[notyrants]

jonnie depp and ryan gosling taste tests cheap wine. awesome.

[abdollahbenmostefa]

You are my favorite teacher, and from you I can learn. Greetings to you with all my heart and my respect to you. I am your brother from Algeria

[johnl]

New to brewing. 6 months now. I have learned a lot from watching you more experienced folks. I have my favorites store bought juice wines. Cran-pom, seems to have some different mouth feels, white grape- peach, very good if you like a sweet peachy, , white grape-cherry, has a pretty good muscadine quality. I start all the juice ferments in the orginal juice container, pour out 8 to 16 oz, add table sugar with a starting gravity around 1.106. Different juices require different amounts, pitch yeast, shake vigorously, loosing the cap until it jumps when you squeeze. Let set for 4 weeks, rack. We like sweeter wines, so my OG is higher. If you like dryer obviously start with lower OG. I use mostly bread yeast, on average for me goes to 11-12 %. I have used Lavin products too, but never side by side, taste test, Great video!! and have learned a lot from you.

Juice wines may not be for the discerning palates, but it is fun to do.
It is a blast. From picking out the juice at the store, to consuming.
Thanks keep up the good work.

[JulieWallis]

My dad used to enjoy making home brewed wine and beer. Anyway, he was fond of experimenting but… one day he decided to use Ribena. (it’s a fruit cordial, basically almost 100%fruit juice made with blackcurrents) well, his wine wasn’t red as expected nor white, not even rosé, it was green! He never did find out what had caused such a bizarre wine colour.

It didn’t get wasted. 😉😉😉