About wine in the bible. What is New wine?!
Answers: And why does it say not to put new wine in an old wine sack because it will burst. Why would it burst?
New wine would be fresh juice from the grapes that has not fermented yet. The juice was placed into a sack made from the stomach of a goat or sheep or some other animal. A fresh wine sack with new wine would be ply able and stretch as the wine fermented. If you placed new wine into a used (old) wine sack that had already been stretched through the fermentation process, it would not be able to continue to stretch to accommodate the fermentation a second time. New wine into an old bottle (i.e sack) will cause both to be lost.
"Nor do people put new wine into old wineskins; otherwise the wineskins burst, and the wine pours out and the wineskins are ruined; but they put new wine into fresh wineskins, and both are preserved."
Sound like new wine was not always done fermeting and could cause a wineskin to burst.
The passage is symbolic of something else. New wine causing an old wine sack to burst is a metaphor. I read it and I can't figure out what the exact meaning is, but I do have a guess. Everything after the birth of Jesus is considered the New Testament, and everything previous is considered the Old Testament. The law of the land in the New Testament was changed, and I think it has something to do with that.
The first answer seems logical to me. If you package any fermented beverage before it is finished fermenting then it can make nearly any container burst, especially an old worn out wine skin. The thing with wine is that it also takes a considerably long time to fully ferment so perhaps it's some kind of subversive way of saying it pays to be patient.