Have a go at brewing your own beer & wine at home.  All you have to do is type in “Home brew” and up come a whole host of online suppliers of home brewing kit.  Add your local city and then maybe more local suppliers will come up. You can also try EBay, plenty of suppliers will ship the stuff to you at reasonable costs.  Once you have the starting kit then its just a case of getting the ingredients sent to you.My biggest problem is having to be patient and wait for the fermentation and conditioning to take place.  But believe me it is better to wait out the recommended 4-5 weeks, depending on what you are brewing, because some of the stuff can still taste pretty raw if you rush it.

I tried brewing beer and started with a proper plastic fermentation bucket that has a tightly sealing lid and a vent that allows gas out, but not in.  First and most important is to sterilize everything properly because you can easily contaminate your brew if you dont have clean equipment.  Then I boiled some water, mixed it together with the raw ingredients or wort as it is called, added water and finally sprinkled the yeast on top of the malty smelling mix.

Before sealing the bucket you take a reading with a hydrometer, so that later you can check the alcohol content of your brew.  I waited a week for the fermentation process to be complete.  Then I transferred the beer to a finishing cask, I added a little sugar to give the beer some gas or head and left it alone for 4 weeks.

Home brewing is a fun way of experimenting and trying to come up with your favourite beer.  There are loads of different home brew mixes that you can get online.