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I know they do not have to buy big quantities because you are not supposed to part take the communion if you are not sure you are one of the 144 000 who will make it to heaven.

Or are they allowed to use last year’s supply? What happen to the unused portions of communion bread and wine/juice?

LOL @ Olin!

My dad was the only partaker in any of our congregations. He accused them of using the same old matzo from last year more than once. Of course, a bunch of Mexicans might not know how to make decent matzo with masarina…. He said they used a fortified wine one year which is actually forbidden I think. He said it was a cheap Vinho do Porto.

i have made several batches of wine using juice concentrate, just made first batch of wine with fresh fruit ( strawberry ) anyway just racked to secondary, didnt use enough sugar it is already too dry for my taste , when i rack again can i add some more sugar? it is a 1 gal. batch,only used 1 lb. sugar, should have used 2 or 3 ( used 4 lbs strawberries ) & 1 can white grape juice concentrate. if this will help make it a little sweeter,should i add the sugar to a few cups of boiling water & let cool & add it when i rack again?or should i make another batch of extra sweet wine & mix the two together when its time to bottle? being a beer brewer,making wine from just juice is boring for me, plus i have a constant supply of fresh fruit. thanks!

Yes you can add more sugar.
Combine the sugar with a minimal amount of water, and heated to boiling to create a sterile sugar syrup. Allow to cool and add to the wine, stirring well to blend.

How much sugar should you add? That depends on the acid level in the wine, and even more, on your personal taste. Draw samples of the wine and put in several glasses. Leave one sample unsweetened and add increasing amounts of sugar to the other samples. Then taste from the driest to the sweetest sample and decide which is most to your liking. Measure the s.g. of that sample and sweeten the wine to that level. Keep in mind that it’s better to lean somewhat to the dry side as acids can soften a bit with time

I have a set of new wine bottles and new corks (bought from a brewing supply company) but how do I fit the cork into the wine bottle? Is it just a matter of brute force or is there a trick to make this easier? Perhaps I am simply not strong enough… The cork is not tapered, it is the same all the way up and very hard. I have tried shaving a piece off to get it started but even then the cork is simply too strong to push into the bottle any further than that. Thanks

You’ll need to purchase a corker. There are many types. I’ve included a link to one company that sells them. Hand corkers work fine but they aren’t as easy to use as stand corkers. If you are bottling a lot of wine I would invest in a nice stand corker.

I have access to almost and unlimited supply of chokecherries, I have made jelly and syrup, but am looking for something else.

1 1/2 qt chokecherries ( 16 oz = 1lb)
1 gal boiling water
4 lb white sugar ( 8 cups)
3 lemons, sliced
2 oranges, sliced
1 envelope bread yeast
Let chokecherries and boiling water stand for 3 days. Strain and add sugar, lemons,oranges and yeast. ( Heat some juice and dissolve sugar, this makes mixture lukewarm.) Let stand 2 weeks. Siphon into bottles, put caps on but do not screw on tightly. This takes about a month.

I am having a Christmas party this Friday. Beer will be supplied, wine too. I am also making lychee martinis (one bottle of vodka to 2 cans of lychee w/ syrup). I will not have a bartender, so I need other simple ideas like the lychee martini. Thanks in advance

YUMMMMM … Cranberry Amaretto Kiss …

2 cups cranberry juice cocktail
1 cup orange-infused vodka
1/2 cup amaretto
3 tablespoons fresh orange juice

The above makes about 8 cocktails – but you can double, triple, whatever you’d like and keep in a pitcher. After pre-mixing, just shake with ice before pouring into a glass, and serve garnished with maraschino cherries.

This has a beautiful holiday color, too, like the red on a candy cane.

I have some supplies but I do not think they are sufficient.

Ingredients:
Fruit Puree – (2) cans
Pecitic Enzyme 1 tsp.
Yeast Nutrient 2 tsp.
Acid Blend 1 tsp.
Tannin 1/2 tsp.
Campden Tablets
Stablizer
Yeast Lalvin 1122
Clearing Agent.
Water
Recipe
To make a fruit wine comparable to using a 96 oz. can of wine base, use two cans of Oregon Fruit Puree Products per five gallons and enough sugar to bring the gravity to 1.090 or higher. Add natural fruit flavoring enhancers to bring out flavor and give more aroma.
Add sugar gradually both initially and for sweetening. Add 1/2 the initial sugar and take a gravity reading or taste if you are sweetening a finished wine before adding the rest. This will insure that your wine doesn’t come out too strong. Fermentation will stop automatically, but wine must be stabilized with potassium sorbate if sugar is added after fermentation for sweetening. This will prevent renewed fermentation.
Yeast Lalvin 71-1122
Use an open plastic bucket for a fermenter. For one gallon batches it is best to use a two gallon bucket and for five gallon batches, use a seven gallon bucket. Sterilize your fermenter. Add the fruit puree and enough water to equal one gallon total volume. Take a gravity reading. The must should be between 1.090 and 1.100. If it is lower, add enough sugar to bring the gravity up. Approximately 4 oz. of sugar will raise the gravity 10 points in one gallon of water. Add Lalvin 71B-1122 to the must. Cover the Fermentor.
Stir must every day for 5 to 7 days (until the gravity is about 1.030). Rack into a sterilized glass carboy (depending on volume made). Attach an airlock and ferment for 2 to 4 weeks or until fermentation is complete. The gravity reading should be 1.000 or lower. Rack wine off the sediment into another sterilized gallon jug or glass carboy. Add a fining agent according to directions and let set for 4 weeks. The wine can be bottled when it is clear and stable.

No, it’s not grape juice. Yes, Jesus said wine, NOT grapejuice. Yes it was the best wine they ever tasted.

John 2:1-11 – Two days later (after Nathanael, or Bartholomew, had been called by Jesus to be one of his disciples) there was a wedding in the Galilean village of Cana.

Jesus’ mother was there and he and his disciples were invited to the festivities. Then it happened that the supply of wine gave out, and Jesus’ mother told him, "They have no more wine."

Reading further, we see the Jesus turns lots of water into wine.

Praise be, to drunken Jesus? Please also remember, like wise, people also get "drunk in the spirit".

Jesus evidently, loves to get drunk. No doubt about it. WWJD, or What Would Jesus Do?

Simple. He would drink the wine, making it if necessary.

If Jesus had to have wine to drink, why is it so criminalized to drink in many places?

"To understand what he drank you would have to look at the culture of the time," the key word being "time."

You see, the technology to prevent grape juice from fermenting was not invented until the 19th century. Jesus could not have drunk grape juice, because there was no such thing back then!

I have done a little research and have essentially narrowed down my options to the following three.
My question is, is if you have made wine before- which of these four would you try? Thanks!

Option 1-
http://www.warpbreach.com/6/6.html

Option 2-
http://how-to-make-wine-at-home.weebly.com/

Option 3-
http://www.wikihow.com/Brew-Cheap-Wine

Option 4-
http://www.wikihow.com/Make-Kool-Aid-Wine

This is for a birthday party with a bunch of college students, so cheap is important- and taste? Not too much.

I’ve done option one several times, very successfully. The only two differences between that recipe and mine are: I use the Welch’s Concord Grape Juice that you buy in the frozen juice section of the store, and I buy an actual wine yeast instead of using bread yeast. That should turn out just fine, though. And it’s very, very easy, which is always good. And it tastes quite good, too. It won’t stand up against, say, a $30 bottle of wine, but it’ll blow away most any $10 bottle of wine.