It's not that new a hobby. My father briefly was into homemade winemaking in the '70s. It was very, very awful.
Italians in South Philadelphia have been making their own wine for, oh, probably about a hundred years. (I'm not kidding.)
Off topic, but I've had homemade beer that was very, very good!
My husband used to make homemade beer, and it WAS good. As good as most microbrewery beer, and far better than the big American brands. He had only one off batch: the recipe called for adding oak chips to simulate a cask-aged flavor, but the resulting beer tasted way too much like oak. We called it woodbrau and drank it anyway.
Glad to know you didn't waste it.
