I'm another who came in here thinking I was going to learn how to DIY hand sanitizer. However it was great to learn that it's about something useful and positive! Carry on.
(Now where can I learn how to make my own TP...?)
I'm another who came in here thinking I was going to learn how to DIY hand sanitizer. However it was great to learn that it's about something useful and positive! Carry on.
(Now where can I learn how to make my own TP...?)
Here we have lots of Coconuts. Apparently there's a method of making alcohol using the Coco water and the balloon method. Never did it but sounds like a cool experiment.
I collect the coco water, bottle it, and keep in the fridge so I can have a glass whenever I want (non alcohol). Pressure builds in the bottle if I don't drink any for a couple days, fermenting on it's own?
I posted in another thread, but my homemade cider was about the easiest and cheapest alcohol I've ever made.
1 Gallon Martinellis cider/apple juice (don't even know if it was pasturized or not, and I doubt that it matters). Plastic bottle preferred incase of heavy fermentation.
1 Sachet Champagne yeast.
Open lid, put yeast in. Close lid securely. Put in cool, dry place for one week. Next in refrigerator until at preferred temperature. Open top, and enjoy a slightly apple flavored dry-ish sparkling wine. Self carbonates as long as the lid was tight. No added sugar, no added bullE36 M3- I wanted to see just how simple I could brew something up. Just in case. I suspect it topped at about 9-10% alcohol.
I might just do it again- it would be neat to try different yeasts, but I wanted it to be more dry and less cloying apple flavor.
I'd like to think that Woody posted this because he can't find a good brown ale anymore, and he decided: "Well berkeley it, I'll do it myself."
As kids growing up in the country and being poor my mom found different ways to keep us entertained. We found a brew your own wine kit at a garage sale. We made some form of "apple wine" with cider from the store plus sugar and normal yeast we had on hand for bread. I can guarantee we did not sterilize as it should have been done. But hey we were ten and this was 35 years ago. YMMV
How many years do you have? If you can get down to Baltimore, I'll hook you up with a barrel. Our Cooper is solid.
Let me know what you'd like to distill and I'll write a novel for you tomorrow.
1988RedT2 said:Grtechguy said:I like to make homemade hard ginger ale. This can be made sparkling or still.
1 Gallon Water
1 - 2 lbs sugar (depening on alcohol level desired)
.5 lb Ginger root shredded
EC1118 wine yeast.
Dissolve sugar in to warm water in a sterilized container. Pitch yeast. add airlock style of your choice (Balloon, condom with a pinprick, or actual water-based airlock)
every couple of days add a raison for yeast nutrient.
Fermentation should be complete in 2 weeks.
This sounds interesting. Is the raisin necessary? Seems a tad weird to me. I did a batch of beer a couple years ago. Came out very good. I just don't drink like I used to...
It's a yeast nutrient as table sugar is rough on yeast. any homebrew shop sells powdered yeast nutrients. Raisons can be used as an alternative.
1988RedT2 said:Grtechguy said:I like to make homemade hard ginger ale. This can be made sparkling or still.
1 Gallon Water
1 - 2 lbs sugar (depening on alcohol level desired)
.5 lb Ginger root shredded
EC1118 wine yeast.
Dissolve sugar in to warm water in a sterilized container. Pitch yeast. add airlock style of your choice (Balloon, condom with a pinprick, or actual water-based airlock)
every couple of days add a raison for yeast nutrient.
Fermentation should be complete in 2 weeks.
This sounds interesting. Is the raisin necessary? Seems a tad weird to me. I did a batch of beer a couple years ago. Came out very good. I just don't drink like I used to...
Limes can be used in this one too. I use about 6 of em for a 5 gallon batch
Sparkydog said:I'm another who came in here thinking I was going to learn how to DIY hand sanitizer. However it was great to learn that it's about something useful and positive! Carry on.
(Now where can I learn how to make my own TP...?)
Go get some harbor freight ads or similar. roll/work them between your hands until suitably soft. Wipe 
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