Since you can't buy booze with food stamps, and it's illegal to sell them for cash to buy booze, I buy fruits, juices and yeast and make my own hooch for free.
Before some idiot chimes in and thinks it's illegal to make wine at home, it's NOT, you can make 100 gallons per person over 21 in the household per year legally for personal use. It's only illegal to distill liquor, that's an entirely different, and additional, process. Nothing illegal about making wine.
I can't be the only person who does this, right? IIN? Sheer genius.
Before some idiot chimes in and thinks it's illegal to make wine at home, it's NOT, you can make 100 gallons per person over 21 in the household per year legally for personal use. It's only illegal to distill liquor, that's an entirely different, and additional, process. Nothing illegal about making wine.
I can't be the only person who does this, right? IIN? Sheer genius.
So, my statistics may be slightly off in terms of who's disabled and on SNAP, but I promise you that most of those people who are on SNAP actually do make a source of earned income.
Except for those lazy bastard children.
Second, your finances wouldn't allow you to qualify.
=P
Since when is it illegal to make a wine brand and try to sell it?
Kind of like tobacco, you can grow it and use it for yourself, but you have to have licenses and pay special taxes and be all official with that too if you want to sell it. If you got caught selling those types of things without being official, it's illegal because mostly of tax evasion, alcohol and tobacco are highly taxed and regulated, plus it's a health hazard since your 'facility' wouldn't be FDA inspected and up to code.
I have had some home made wines that tasted like shit.
You find what you like and play with it, it's fun really.
Vinegar is made in a similar way as wine, I won't go into details but if you make your wine wrong and it sours, then that's basically what vinegar is.
If you distill wine, you get brandy or cognac.
Other distilled spirits are made from things like corn, grain, potatoes, etc and is usually triple distilled to get a 40-50% alcohol content. The more times you distill the higher alcohol content. But, that's illegal to do at home!! (I do know how to do it though) All distilled alcohols are clear, they get their color from aging in barrels. Clear liquors are not aged, like 'silver' tequila, vodka, etc. Then again some just get coloring from food coloring or other additives.
There IS one easy method of distilling, it's not really 'official' distilling, but it will still net you a higher alcohol content and you can do it with store-bought beer or wine or whatever. It's called 'freeze distilling'. Alcohol doesn't freeze, so you freeze the beer (not solid, but say halfway or so), then pour out the liquid, and you can repeat, until desired, and you will end up with one strong ass shot of beer.
I really had little idea about any of that stuff, and I would love to be able to make my own home made wine one day.