During Prohibition, home winemaking boomed because it was legal to make up to 200 gallons of wine at home per year. This saw the invention of “wine bricks,” or grapes compacted
into bricks and transported to aspiring home winemakers around the country. Some bricks came with a “warning” on the label: “After dissolving the brick in a gallon of water, do not place the liquid in a jug away in the cupboard for twenty days, because then it would turn into wine.”
