Lockdown booze recipes

[Toxxyc]

Unless his equipment and method is perfectly sterile, it'll still ferment. Yeast is everywhere. He's going to get booze and think that yeast is working, when in fact, it's natural/wild yeast that made the siesabooze.

 

[Tacet]

A few questions for the experts.

When making apple cider - if you use diced/blended apple rather than juice, will that still work? I'm guessing that it will work, but take longer?

Why does some recipes boil the fruit (I've seen it for various fruits)?

 

[SykomantiS]

A few questions for the experts.

When making apple cider - if you use diced/blended apple rather than juice, will that still work? I'm guessing that it will work, but take longer?

Why does some recipes boil the fruit (I've seen it for various fruits)?

It works, yes. I've done it this way (I juiced, not just blended). A bunch of apples, no fruit juice. (I added water without adding sugar which diluted it too much to my liking, won't do that again). The reason for heating it is to pasteurise it before fermentation.

 

[Snyper564]

Brewers Yeast is used to feed horses.

1kg for 154.34 - https://www.westernshoppe.com/23018/aktiv equine brewers yeast 1kg.aspx

The text on that website seems to imply that this is a live culture, though other horse feed websites imply that horse-feed yeast has been pasturised (ie killed).

Does anyone know?

This doesnt read as live at all

Aktiv Equine is a pharmaceutically developed horse care range, providing the horse with the support it needs to live well and be healthy.

Brewers yeast (saccharomyces cerevisiae) is a naturally occurring yeast and is an excellent source of trace minerals, rich in protein, selenium and complex B vitamins.

This versatile yeast has a wide range of health benefits for horses such as supporting a healthy nervous and digestive system as well as maintaining hoof, coat, skin and eye condition.

 

[Tacet]

Thanks, @SykomantiS !

Mmm, so boiling the fruit will yield more dependable, consistent results, but possibly risking some of the flavor. I have a few persimmons, and this brewing thing is pretty good fun, so I'm tempted to blend and ferment them as well, just to see what comes out.

 

[patrick123]

Thanks, @SykomantiS !

Mmm, so boiling the fruit will yield more dependable, consistent results, but possibly risking some of the flavor. I have a few persimmons, and this brewing thing is pretty good fun, so I'm tempted to blend and ferment them as well, just to see what comes out.

Make sure that you have washed your apples. A lot of the fruit is sprayed with wax and other chemicals to ensure that they don't go mouldy. This will have an adverse effect on your yeast.

 

[Napalm]

Suppose i also shouldn't mention i don't drink at all...

but seemingly my uncles and family never noticed or don't have a clue what to buy me for birthdays or Xmas.

Cause everytime it's a bottle of Johnny double black, or Jack black , or Some vodka.


I don't drink, never have. I've re-gift some bottles out to staff just before the lockdown. One of my bradda's at work had a birthday party which i couldn't make. Gave him the GOT red bottle i got as a gift during Xmas. i think there is still a bottle of royal russian vodka 1liter at the office.

 

[Napalm]

Make sure that you have washed your apples. A lot of the fruit is sprayed with wax and other chemicals to ensure that they don't go mouldy. This will have an adverse effect on your yeast.

Why not just use fruit juice?

 

[Pineapple Smurf]

Why not just use fruit juice?

some people say that the preservatives in there will destroy the yeast i hear

 

[Steamy Tom]

Made 2 batches the same. Ones bubbled like a mofo, the other hardly.. Should I turf the it?

you didn't make them the same then...

 

[Steamy Tom]

some people say that the preservatives in there will destroy the yeast i hear

:|

 

[patrick123]

Why not just use fruit juice?

If you do, then it must have absolutely no preservatives.
100% juice, tinned fruits, or frozen fruits with no additives are fine.

 

[dualmeister]

OK there are a couple of fruit juice recipes. I just have 1 Ltr of clear apple liqui fruit to experiment on. I add so. E sugar and yeast? How much?

 

[geezer]

I've been inundated with requests to analyse my colleagues' home brews for them here at work. In the last batch of samples I was asked to analyse, the pineapple beer came out the best at about 12.5% alcohol content. The grape was the least at 2.5%, the ginger-beer was 6.6% and their apple cider was 4.6% alcohol.

 

[patrick123]

How potent is the end result?

I would put it at about 6%. Takes about 4 or 5 glassfulls to start getting the feeling..

 

[Napalm]

some people say that the preservatives in there will destroy the yeast i hear

even on 100% juices? maybe the 70% ones i could think its possible

 

[dj2381]

I've been inundated with requests to analyse my colleagues' home brews for them here at work. In the last batch of samples I was asked to analyse, the pineapple beer came out the best at about 12.5% alcohol content. The grape was the least at 2.5%, the ginger-beer was 6.6% and their apple cider was 4.6% alcohol.

Yowzer, that explains the massive babalas I had after the pineapple beer.

 

[patrick123]

I've been inundated with requests to analyse my colleagues' home brews for them here at work. In the last batch of samples I was asked to analyse, the pineapple beer came out the best at about 12.5% alcohol content. The grape was the least at 2.5%, the ginger-beer was 6.6% and their apple cider was 4.6% alcohol.

To put this into perspective, alcoholic beer ranges between 4 and 6 percent, normal wine usually between 10 and 14 percent.

 

[Pineapple Smurf]

even on 100% juices? maybe the 70% ones i could think its possible

im busy brewing a batch now with a tin of Rhodes Pineapples and i can see its bubbling away
this is still a test phase

i will be reporting back in a few days time on the outcome of this batch

 

[Toxxyc]

Very very few fruit juices you buy in supermarkets are truly suited for making ciders. Almost all of them (except for a select few, which are expensive) are all filtered, pasteurized, clarified and have some sort of preservative in them, even if it says "100% juice". If you want to make a good cider, buy a kit or even better, look for an orchard close to you and ask them if they'll sell you fresh pressed juice. That's the kind of apple juices that aren't shiny and golden in the glass like liquid amber, but more of a funky yellowish-creamy colour. I haven't found places selling those for reasonable prices and in reasonable volumes close to Pretoria yet, as I'd LOVE to give a proper cider or wine a shot.