Good wine. Bad influence.
Glug Plonk is the home winemaking app that tells you what to do today, what not to panic about, and when your suspicious bucket juice has officially become wine.
Juicy Little Troublemaker
Day 12 of 60. Your suspicious bucket juice is becoming suspiciously promising.
Leave it alone.
Your yeast is working. Do not poke the bucket for emotional support.
Wine journeys with personality.
Built like the best recipe sites: clear collections, useful summaries, save-worthy guides, and no need to read someone's entire life story before starting.
Naughty label. Serious fermentation.
Glug Plonk jokes around, but the process does not. Every journey is built around proper home winemaking basics: sanitation, gravity readings, temperature control, fermentation stages, stabilising, bottling, and troubleshooting.
what
matters
Cool spot or warm one? We point you to the wine that'll actually survive your climate — not just the one that sounds nice.
Bad microbes are not invited to this party.
Bubbles lie. Hydrometers gossip accurately.
Warm rooms make yeast party too hard. We show you how to keep it steady.
Two matching readings beat one hopeful guess.
If you made it, name it. Then slap a label on it.
Your batch is alive. Now what?
Glug Plonk turns a wine kit into a guided journey: one job today, gravity tracking, temperature nudges, and a panic button for 11:43pm bucket drama.
The Respectable Delinquent
Structured, dark, and pretending to be responsible.
Top up the carboy.
No air, no drama. Cabernet hates empty space.
We make wine. We track gravity. We occasionally panic.
Start a journey, register your batch, and let the app tell you the next sensible thing. No snobbery. No chemistry lecture. Just enough science to keep your plonk alive.
Early batches, questionable confidence, and increasingly drinkable results.
A few first-pour notes from people brave enough to turn suspicious juice into house plonk.
"I thought I ruined it three times. Somehow it became wine."
"My partner asked where I bought this."
"The apartment smelled mildly suspicious for two weeks. Worth it."
"Dangerously easy to drink cold."
"I made this in a condo laundry area and now I'm emotionally attached to it."
"No patience required. Standards somehow intact."
Is my wine dying?
Probably not. But let's check before you pour it down the sink like a drama queen. Fast triage for beginner problems that feel catastrophic at 11:43pm.
Diagnose the dramaMake it. Bottle it. Slap a label on it.
When your batch is done, Glug Plonk turns it into a tiny vintage: batch name, year, ABV, tasting notes, and a printable label worthy of your questionable decisions.
Frequently panicked questions.
None whatsoever. Glug Plonk is built specifically for complete beginners. Every step explains what to do, why you're doing it, and what it should look and smell like. If you can follow a recipe, you can make wine.
The basics: a food-safe fermenter (6–8L), an airlock and bung, a hydrometer, a thermometer, an auto-siphon, sanitiser, and 6 bottles. The app has a full kit checklist for each wine journey. You'll find all of it at any homebrew or winemaking supplier — online or local — usually for the price of a couple of decent bottles of wine.
Fresh juice journeys need preservative-free grape juice. The one rule: avoid anything with potassium sorbate or sodium benzoate — those stop fermentation dead (ascorbic acid and citric acid are fine). It's easy to find in cooler climates; trickier somewhere hot, where fresh juice is also harder to ferment. So if you're in a warm place, the app will often steer you to a concentrate kit instead — everything comes in one box, no juice hunt, no wild-yeast risk. Whichever fits your climate, we point you there.
Absolutely — it's exactly who we built this for. Small space and a warm climate? Start with a concentrate kit journey like Kit Shiraz or Quick Kit White: everything comes in one box, fermentation is fast and forgiving, and there's no hunting for fresh juice. Fresh-juice journeys are wonderful too, but they need more temperature babysitting — a water bath or a little ice strategy to hold the range. Either way, the app reads your climate and points you to the journey that'll actually thrive where you live.
The Quick Kit White is the fastest at 21 days. Apartment White is 45 days. Beginner's Shiraz takes 60 days. The Cabernet Sauvignon is the most ambitious at 90 days. The concentrate kit journeys sit between 21 and 42 days. Most journeys make around 6 bottles — the Premium Kit Cabernet is the big one at roughly 30.
We're in private beta right now, which means early access is free. Sign up below and you'll be among the first to get access.
Probably not. Most beginner wine problems are fixable. The app's panic button covers the most common issues — rotten egg smell, stuck fermentation, vinegar notes, cloudy wine, no bubbles, and more. Each one includes a triage guide and tells you exactly when to actually panic (which is rarely).
Built by someone who made every beginner mistake so you don't have to.
Home winemaking is genuinely simple — but every beginner resource either talks down to you or buries the useful bits in a 12,000-word essay about terroir. Three failed batches later, Glug Plonk exists because making wine at home should feel like a fun project, not a chemistry exam.
We're based in Singapore. We know it's warm and space is limited. We built for that.
Say hello → hello@glugplonk.com