Bucket Brewing!

Some of you may be wondering how I have been keeping myself busy. One
project I began when I first arrived was to brew my own wine. Now
obviously I do not have access to all the fancy equipment that one would
use back home so I improvised a little. I decided the simplest (and
cheapest) set up would be a bucket with a blanket tied on top to vent
the resultant CO2 from fermentation. So I boiled together a bunch of
orange peels, 2 bananas, 1 pineapple, and 750 grams of raisins with 20
liters of water and a couple kilos of brown sugar. I let that cool down
in the bucket then added about 12 packets of bakers yeast the next day.
8 weeks later and you can see me here siphoning out the finished wine.
I ended up with about 12 liters of wine that really tastes pretty good
for coming out of a bucket! I will be entering a sample into the
homebrew competition at In-Service Training coming up in December.