Any good local home made wine recipies?

Mahawi, I can give you the most basic ex-pat method of making wine in Saudi. Maybe you already know it, but just in case you don't, here it is........

........the easiest way to make wine is to use Rauch fruit juices, which - as you probably know - you can buy almost anywhere. They come in bottles with stoppers on the top.

If you plan to make a lot of wine, pour the Rauch into a bigger container - for example a 5 or 10 litre water bottle. Fill the container about 70% full. But you can make the wine in the original Rauch bottle if you just want to make one or two bottles.

You need to use wine yeast, but that is very difficult to find in Saudi, so ordinary baker's yeast is ok. You can get that in the supermarket too. Drop a pinch of yeast (just what you can pick up with your finger and thumb) into the bottle.

You also need sugar, which you put directly into the bottle too(use a funnel). The quantity of sugar which you drop into each bottle depends on how strong (and sweet) you want the wine. The juice already contains quite a lot of added sugar, so you won't need much. Maybe between 2 - 5 teaspoons.

When you have added the sugar and the yeast, you need to put the top back on the bottle, BUT DO NOT SEAL IT! Just let it rest over the hole so that it covers it but it allows the air to escape. Then put a plastic supermarket bag over the bottle to stop flies getting to the top of the bottle.

Try to find somewhere warm (approximately 75c) to stimulate fermentation. The more constant the temperature, the better. The sugar and yeast should begin to react within 24 hours, and the whole fermentation process should take from 10 days to a month.

You will know it is fermenting when you see the bubbles rising to the top of the bottle. You will know when the fermentation process is over and the wine is ready when the bubbles stop.

If you want any more advice, give me an e-mail.......there's too much to write here...!

Good luck....

astaghfirulla man... u give a bad picture of saudi arabia, i was shocked. i put n this link to c any islamic things and thats the first question ic. go and repent and stop being a discrase for ur ummah.

u know how many english peopel visit this page out of curiousity and they dont know that u represent the minority and now theyre gonna look down at muslims and think theyre hipocrates. oh my gosh im shocked.

hypocrasy from the heart of a religious land.

i'v been trying to find the recipies since a while but the problem is all recipies either need tools which i can't find here or the place is gona smell which i can't do that 2 so if u found something either to send it to me by e-mail or just invite for a couple of glasses and this will be fine ;o)

Alcohol is forbidden to be drunk and sold and transported into Saudi Arabia. If someone tries that they can legally be put to death in Saudi Arabia.

isn't that, like, highly illegal & dangerous in your country?