Yes, pretty much everyone does it if you live in a village here.
We make rakija, which is a famous Balkan distilled drink; Serbs are biggest manufacturers of it, but pretty much everyone can make it with right equipment. My dad and I commonly make it from leftover squashed grapes. Note that I don't know English term but I will quickly clarify:
After you pick the grapes form vineyard, squash them and put them with sugar into the barrel, you begin fermentation where from the sweet juice alcohol gradually emerges and juice loses its sweetness. After some time you put the wine into the stainless steel barrel but you are left with huge amount of leftover squashed grapes at the bottom of previous barrel. These grapes are loaded with alcohol and sugars and are good choice to make rakija.
Other choices:
- pears
- apples
- plums
With these fruits, process is more simple and you can make practically immediately rakija after you pick them from trees. But when my dad and I make it from grapes, we are killing two birds with one stone. On one hand we have wine, and on the other hand we don't have to take waste from grapes and dump it somewhere. We just convert it to something drinkable. Afterwards you are left with just very dry waste that is easy to dispose of.
This is how my rig looks like. This is not my picture but funny enough it is same model of both parts as I have.
I will be happy to answer questions.