Basic idea: Yeast eat sugar and convert it to alcohol, but you want this to happen without other things also infecting and eating the sugar, mainly because their waste products aren’t as useful or tasty as alcohol.
Materials needed to get started:
- One brand new, clean 5 gallon plastic pail with lid, any plastic type but 3 or 7 preferred
- One packet of active dry yeast, red brewer’s yeast preferred
- 14 cans of juice concentrate, required to have no sulfites or preservatives
- One standard size bag of granulated baking sugar
- 5 gallons of water, filtered or distilled water preferred
- A winemaking hydrometer
- Bleach & a clean sponge