14% Alcohol from V8 Juice? We May Have Gone Too Far

On City Steading Brews, we’ve fermented a lot of unusual things… but today we went full experiment mode and made V8 wine 🍅🍷 _____________________________________ 1.5 gallon fermenter with Airlock: https://amzn.to/47LOkdX Hydrometer & Graduated Cylinder: https://amzn.to/4ow8gXz Wine thief or baster: https://amzn.to/3DXs2c8 Auto-siphon: https://amzn.to/4cz8VRr Long mixing spoon / “spaddle”: https://amzn.to/4bM43IQ Digital scale (for sugar measurement): https://amzn.to/4dxaqkr Star San: https://amzn.to/3SXFoKg Sanitizing bucket (TRBOS): https://amzn.to/3WROzxD We use the Amazon Affiliate Program for these links and we DO receive a small commission if you purchase using our links and all this comes at no additional cost to you! _____________________________________ Using low sodium V8, plain white sugar, and good old Fleischmann's Active Dry Yeast, we pushed this tomato juice brew to nearly 14% ABV. Was it delicious? Was it a cooking wine masterpiece? Was it alcoholic soup? Watch to see the full fermentation process, gravity math, cold crash results, and final tasting. ⚠️ Spoiler: Sodium matters. _____________________________________ 🍅 Ingredients (US & Metric) 3 bottles (46 oz each) low sodium V8 juice 138 fl oz total (≈ 1.08 gallons / 4.08 liters) 2 lb (907 g) granulated sugar 1 tsp (~3 g) bread yeast _____________________________________ 📊 Starting & Final Numbers Estimated OG: ~1.104 Final Gravity: 0.994 Final ABV: ~13.9% (≈14%) _____________________________________ Become a City Steading VIP - Click to learn more http://www.city-steading.com/vip-club _____________________________________ Want more City Steading? Website: http://www.city-steading.com Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/citysteading #CitySteadingBrews #V8Wine #TomatoWine #HomebrewExperiment #WeirdWine #Winemaking