by Honest_Liberty » Tue Mar 27, 2018 7:39 am
Congratulations! This is a fantastic place to start!
IMHumbleO, you can't go wrong with Kirkland Apple juice. It's $5 per gallon, grab six gallons. That's $30.
Grab cheap champagne yeast. That's another $2.50
Grab enough sugar to hit your desired starting gravity, I recommend 9.5 -10.5%, dissolve the sugar in a gallon of apple juice, or keep one for back sweetening, and use a gallon of distilled water. Boil the water add the sugar, mix into fermenter, pitch yeast, aerate. Sit back and come back to it after 3 weeks.
Rack it. Keep a sample to gauge (should be very dry, minimal flavor)
Age a month or two. Rack. Re taste. Back sweeten as desired
Or continue to age as desired
Simple, cheap, keeps you drinking for some time once it's ready