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Grapes were mashed by slaves or servants in great vats (and I'm sure they used yeast to make the drinks alcoholic, remember that Beer was a key drink in Egypt!). They were stored in large ceramaic vessels.
Oh, I found a cool website that talks about wine in Egypt/also has other good articles: http://www.touregypt.net/magazine/mag11012000/magf2.htm

Here's a bit on how they made it:

"When the grapes ripened they were picked by hand and put into large rush baskets. These were carried on the shoulders, on the head, or slung on a yoke.

The baskets of grapes were emptied into vats for crushing. These large vats were large enough to contain up to six men who crushed the grapes with their feet. The grape juice flowed through a hole in the side of the vat into a smaller vat, and then poured into pottery jars where it was fermented.

Secondary pressing was used to separate the rest of the juice form the stems, seeds and skin. The residue was put into a sack and was stretched, either on a frame with a pole at one end or between two poles. The pole was twisted to extract the juice that was then collected into a large vessel.

Fermentation took place in open vessels then the wine was racked and transferred to other jars, being sealed with rush bung-stoppers and covered with mud capsules. Small holes were left near the tops of the caps to allow carbon dioxide that was produced in the secondary fermentation to escape. When fermentation finally stopped the holes were sealed.

Although there is no evidence of the widespread use of this technique, wine was sometimes clarified by being racked from jar to jar. Sometimes it was strained (a form of decanting) before drunk, and occasionally the Egyptians would use a siphon (see illustration) to keep the wine dregs from mixing with the wine to be poured."

That's a siphon

I've read enough of it to know that, while Masters is sincere and loves Skhmt very much, his material is derived mainly from visions he claims to have had and tends not to match up to what is actually known about ancient Egypt from ancient Egyptian writings or artifacts. I wouldn't put much stock by him for information- however, he may be an inspirational example of devotion.

Actually, I don't think that Masters is the devotional type, I read on to the rest/majority of the book, and it describes psychophysical exersizes. Just yesterday I was reading a book on world religions, and was on a chapter of Hinduism. There are multiple paths a person can take in their spirituality, and as I was reading about raja yoga which is basically spirituality through ... psychophysical exersizes. .. >.>
The fives bodies that he describes is a variation off of, it seems, the four bodies of the Hindu belief and replaces them with ka, haidit,khu,sokhim,(not in order). I don't think that this is a coincidence, and I feel like it's a bit deceptive since he clearly got much of his inspiration from Hinduism.

His fives bodies... are the meanings of the ka,ba, etc. known and taught in other forms of Egyptian Religion? Is there any agreement with what they are?

In terms of his views of the gods and goddesses, it seems as if he has this view of good vs. evil... I don't think that he views Sekhmet as being evil, maybe more kind of like justice. He has a picture that places Sekhmet as an "urgod" and Set as an "urdemon". He definately reminds me of a creative, Christian religious woman I know with his "there's a war in heaven" stuff.

But also, this got me wondering if the Egyptian religion was anything like Hinduism(aside from the afterlife beliefs) in terms of they way they saw gods and goddesses, mostly. It does seem that the Egyptians moreso saw them as entities in their own right, not personas. I guess one note is how Sekhmet is sometimes said to be a wrathful Hathor. I guess ultimately, in the ancient religion, were there multiple paths and ways to think about the gods?