Yes. You can make wine at home in a brine bucket. That is how:
Go to your local fast food restaurant and ask for the manager. Tell him you want 2 empty pickle buckets.
These cubes are food grade cubes and will not degas any foreign chemicals in your wine. Although they are food grade, they have one big problem: they were full of vinegar. Vinegar is a natural enemy of wine.
So, you will need to sterilize and clean the pickle cubes, let them air dry, and then sterilize and clean them again. I use oxyclean and it seems to work quite well.
Once you’ve cleaned and dried them twice, you’re ready to go.
Use one of the buckets as your main fermenter. The second bucket you will use as your secondary fermenter. You will need to make a modification to the second cube: you will need to drill a small hole in the top to accommodate an airlock.
The hole should be slightly larger than the diameter of the airlock. Go to your local hardware store and ask for a small “grommet”. This is a small rubber gasket that will provide a good seal between the vat and the airlock, ensuring that air cannot get into the wine while it is in the secondary fermenter.
You’re done! All you have to do is put your juice in the first bucket and put the yeast in and then let it sit for a week. Then siphon the wine from bucket 1 to bucket 2. Put the lid on, put on the airlock, then wait a month.
At the end of the month you are ready to bottle!