Wine making is both an art and a science - experience the process, and make your own wine!

Rotarian Joe Reagan started brewing beer in 2011, since then he has expanded his hobby to include hard cider and wine.

In this unique experience, Joe will guide you through the entire wine making process from selecting the type of wine you want, through the fermentation process, to bottling your wine.

What to expect:

Home wine making kits include all the ingredients that you'll need - sometimes there are limits to the types of kits available but Joe will work with you to find something great. Joe will use his equipment and walk you through all the steps.

The fermentation process takes about 30 days and will require Joe to meet with you 4-6 times during that month - generally it takes about an hour on each of those days. Wine is very forgiving so we have flexibility on scheduling - I've totally left a wine sitting in a fermenter for 60 days and there were no ill effects.

You can expect approx. 20-30 bottles of wine - wine is drinkable after about 15 days but best after 50-70 days in the bottle - we'll test at each step to look for off flavors and experience "young" wine.

We reuse bottles.

Donated by Joe Reagan.