Lockdown booze recipes

[dualmeister]

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.

12.5%... How to get to 40%?

 

[Steamy Tom]

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?

~2TBL spoons sugar.
< 1/4tsp of brewers yeast

 

[mbayshark]

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.

So maybe I should Nutribullet my apples for the Hunter's cider recipe then....

 

[SykomantiS]

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.

If you ever do, please share where and who.

 

[SykomantiS]

12.5%... How to get to 40%?

Distillation.

 

[Toxxyc]

Will do. So far I've found people up north willing to sell volumes closer to 1,000l at a time, but that's just insane. No way I'm going to make 1Kl of cider in one shot.

 

[Toxxyc]

So maybe I should Nutribullet my apples for the Hunter's cider recipe then....

If you can blend and squeeze - that'll be amazing.

 

[Toxxyc]

12.5%... How to get to 40%?

Anything over ~13% using the yeasts you dude have is practically impossible without distillation. Or freeze distillation.

 

[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.

This also is dependent on a lot of variables.
Pure juice with no added sugar, the yeast being used, temperature, fermenting time, etc.

 

[bwana]

I've just bottled a sample from the pineapple I put on last Wednesday.

So far the most potent, and best tasting, has been the grape juice one.

 

[Snyper564]

Last time I will ask in case it was missed. Anyone have a herb beer recipe similar to that of Kimberly herb beer

 

[Binary_Bark]

That one strong pine apple batch is kicking my arse, the rest on Friday will be strong

 

[dualmeister]

~2TBL spoons sugar.
< 1/4tsp of brewers yeast

Done. Let's see what happens

 

[Binary_Bark]

Done. Let's see what happens

You also did a batch on Friday like I did, have you given it a taste?

 

[B-1]

Last time I will ask in case it was missed. Anyone have a herb beer recipe similar to that of Kimberly herb beer

Have no idea about a kimberly version but if you are looking for beer without hops search "gruit beer" lots of options around.

 

[Binary_Bark]

HeHeHe

 

[Snyper564]

Have no idea about a kimberly version but if you are looking for beer without hops search "gruit beer" lots of options around.

lots of options of things I cannot easily source I dont have mugwort, or yarrow feel free to post recipes though

 

[dualmeister]

You also did a batch on Friday like I did, have you given it a taste?

Did first batch on Sunday, second yesterday and then the liqui fruit experiment today. Will leave the first batch for 5 days and second for 7 days for maximum err impact. If the liqui experiment works it will be a bonus

 

[dualmeister]

So I opened my garage door today and it smelled like a brewery in there. Love it

 

[Binary_Bark]

Did first batch on Sunday, second yesterday and then the liqui fruit experiment today. Will leave the first batch for 5 days and second for 7 days for maximum err impact. If the liqui experiment works it will be a bonus

Ah, you will get some very different variants, some of my batches from Friday are still a bit sweet, but one has gone nuclear, the batch I am drinking now.

Also have a Liquifruit batch done will test it much later this week.

Do a small taste on Thursday.
Did you split your batches or all in one?