G2CDeer said:
Word to the wise. I make both beer and wine and for someone just starting out making either, I suggest making beer first. Making beer is easier and the process is a lot faster than making wine. I think of it this way, making beer is like the training wheels when learning how to ride a bike, the bike being the wine.
When I make my wine, usually out of concord grapes, I start by hand picking the grapes and washing them in cold water. I usually let the grapes sit in the cold water for an hour or two and then I being to squeeze the grapes to get out all the juice, the juice is contained in a big crock pot. Once all of the juice is extracted, I take the skins an put them into a cheese cloth like holder and place them in the juice. After that, the process is adding some ingredients and racking the wine usually about every two weeks up to a month or longer.
I know I left out a lot of steps but wine making is something you learn by doing. I could write out a 10 page paper on what ingredients to use, type of wines, how to store the bottles, equipment, etc.
As I stated earlier, if you want to make wine I suggest buying a beer kit and start there. Beer kits are chalked full of information learned when making wine.......
I take it you do not understand the Concept of making Either!
Wine is FORGIVING, Beer is NOT!
Wine has a much Higher Alcohol Content in it, Beer does Not...Sterilization of Material is Much More important in making Beer then it is Wine for the Alcohol Content in Wine kills off many Bacterias that would Kill a Wort of Beer!
Be a little lazy in Sterilization when making Beer and you get a 5 gallon batch of Skunk Pee that is worth nothing but to be Dumped...Be a litte lazy in Sterilization when making Wine and you still have a Good chance of coming out with a Drinkable Wine!
Talk to the Folks at Wine/Beer Supply Stores, Read the books on making beer and wine (The Books that have both in them) they will tell you the same thing... Wine is Forgiving, Beer is NOT....it is Much Easier for someone to start out learning how to make wine then it is Beer, once they understand the concept of making Wine, they can move on to beer!
And it really isn't Faster.. Beer you have to either boil for an hour then strain off the Wort and into a Primary and ferment it for 7-14 days, then let it sit for some more time after racking it off like wine....then after it has sat and aged, it needs Bottled, Sterilize the Bottles, Strain the beer off into a spigot bucket to fill the bottles, fill the bottles, cap them, let them sit for a week or more to carbonate...
Wien, pick the berries, grapes, fruits, get them ready for the primary, either crushing them or cutting them up, into a nylon bag, mix the needed ingredients into the primary with the berries/grapes/fruit....let it sit a day, toss the yeast, stir for 7 days, after 7 days, transfer to the secondary fermentor....let it Sit not 2 weeks but 1 Month, siphon off, let it go again for another month, siphon off to get rid of sediments, do that a 3rd month, and it is now ready to be bottled but if sweetened, you have to add the sodium what ever the name is to keep it from refermenting...if you want a GOOD Bottle of Wine, let it age in the bottles for a few more months...
Neither is Faster then the other...but Like I said, Wine is Easier to learn First, it is Forgiving, Beer is Not!