Futurama Posted July 25, 2007 Share Posted July 25, 2007 I'm not sure if this will be locked or not cause it might give the younger users some ideas! lol. Has anyone made their own alcohol before? I'm thinking of making a batch of cider, possibly pear cider, mostly for a laugh 8-) My dad's still got his old fermentation tank things so i'm set for that. Does anyone have any tips, stories etc? :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harrington Posted July 25, 2007 Share Posted July 25, 2007 I remember reading a Darwin Award story about some redneck who died from making his own alcohol. He mixed milk with ethanol (coz it sounds like alcohol I suppose), and proceeded to drink it. Surprisingly, the drink didn't kill him. Instead, sometime after having finished his ingenious cocktail, he began to feel ill, and vomited directly onto his fireplace... burned to death. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Necromagus Posted July 25, 2007 Share Posted July 25, 2007 Well, first and foremost, look out for methanol, alcohol's evil kid brother that'll poke your eyes out (pretty much literally). The best base for your homebrewed alcohol using only a fermentation tank is pretty much any kind of fruit. Apples are ideal for this as they're cheap and have a high concentration of natural sugars. Try to use apples that haven't been sprayed by pesticides. A relly ghetto way to do it would be to simply mash up the apples and boil them, then pour them into the tank with water and yeast. Shake the tank up once or twice a days to keep the whole process going, and if you don't have a valve on the tank you'll have to open it up regularly to let the excess carbondioxide pass out. My Tip.It Times Articles (10 and counting) || The Varrock Library Author Index projectDo you dare to dream? - Part 19 added. || The Hospital (WIP) - New story!Necromagus looks like a viking ... with glasses. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Evrae Posted July 25, 2007 Share Posted July 25, 2007 ... He mixed milk with ethanol (coz it sounds like alcohol I suppose), ... Ethanol is an alcohol! My dad makes wine from the grape vine we have in our back garden. Make sure you dont let air get in, otherwise it turns to vinegar. Use a water trap to let gas out but not in. I have to get practically naked when I'm cooking bacon.I may be immature, but that made me laugh! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harrington Posted July 25, 2007 Share Posted July 25, 2007 ... He mixed milk with ethanol (coz it sounds like alcohol I suppose), ... Ethanol is an alcohol! Yes, but it's not drinkable in that form.. not safely anyway. It needs fermenting. Hence, this guys Darwin Award Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mercifull Posted July 25, 2007 Share Posted July 25, 2007 I have a few friends that have but I never did. Its not easy http://www.wikihow.com/Category:Beer-and-Cider Might help ^^ Mercifull <3 Suzi "We don't want players to be able to buy their way to success in RuneScape. If we let players start doing this, it devalues RuneScape for others. We feel your status in real-life shouldn't affect your ability to be successful in RuneScape" Jagex 01/04/01 - 02/03/12 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
assassin_696 Posted July 25, 2007 Share Posted July 25, 2007 A mate of mine brewed some moonshine, or whatever it is, but it looked so nasty after fermenting for a while that he didn't dare touch it. :P "Da mihi castitatem et continentam, sed noli modo" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Biabf Posted July 25, 2007 Share Posted July 25, 2007 My grandma used to make wine before her husband died when she stopped. She used to have huge jars of the stuff above the fridge. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ltb2006 Posted July 25, 2007 Share Posted July 25, 2007 Sloe vodka (spl?). Basicaly normal vodka mixed with sloe berries and sugar left to ferment for a while-thats quite nice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djo0 Posted July 25, 2007 Share Posted July 25, 2007 I tried fermenting apple juice once. I put it in a bottle and kept on a shelf for about 2 years. It tasted awful :lol:. Suprisingly I didin't get sick. "Nobody cheers for Goliath" ~Wilt Chamberlain~ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wakka102 Posted July 25, 2007 Share Posted July 25, 2007 I have a friend that used to moonshine, they don't do it anymore but they still have the tanks and all to do it out in the woods (they have tons and tons and tons of land). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hohto Posted July 25, 2007 Share Posted July 25, 2007 I have a few friends that have but I never did. Its not easy http://www.wikihow.com/Category:Beer-and-Cider Might help ^^ It's dirty easy if you don't care about the taste. Basically just yeast + sugar and that's it. Yea done Kilju (check wikipedia if you want to learn more) before, but with current alcohol prices I rather stick with things that are stronger and somewhat drinkable. I'd rather die for what I believe in than live for anything else.Name Removed by Administrator ~Turtlefemm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lateralus Posted July 25, 2007 Share Posted July 25, 2007 My dad used to make a lager, a beer and an ale, apparantly they went down a treat. He said whenever they used to throw a party, his own stuff would get drained and he'd get left with cases and cases of 'brand name' beer and stuff. La lune ne garde aucune rancune. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuziAngel Posted July 25, 2007 Share Posted July 25, 2007 When I was a child, my parents used to make their own wine. It was always stored down in the cellar. We live on the coast and occasionally the sea comes over into the houses. One time it came over and half-filled the cellar and washed all of the labels off the home-made wine. Every bottle had to be opened, tasted, relabeled and resealed. The Poison Fairy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcneilp Posted July 25, 2007 Share Posted July 25, 2007 We made some cider at school in biology :thumbsup: Looked like peepee ( :XD: ) but tasted not too bad, if you ignored the smell and the people vomiting at either side of you... It isn't in the castle, It isn't in the mist, It's a calling of the waters, As they break to show, The new Black Death, With reactors aglow, Do you think your security, Can keep you in purity, You will not shake us off above or belowScottish frictionScottish fiction Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frigginacky Posted July 25, 2007 Share Posted July 25, 2007 Some friends of mine brewed cider in their dorm room...on a supposedly dry campus :-w . I don't know exactly how they did it, so I can't offer advice, but it came out surprisingly drinkable. \ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ledusskapis Posted July 25, 2007 Share Posted July 25, 2007 Moonshine...very popular in my country(also illegal)...if u have stuff to make it it aint hard but...many people stopped buyin and makin it when 70+ people got poisoned from bad moonshine...bye bye finley workin liver...and you can make some home made wine, but it takes long time for it to brew...but its simple lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darkmage099 Posted July 25, 2007 Share Posted July 25, 2007 MY parents and my best friend's parents (we were a tight community back in Canada) used to make their own wines. They went to my friend's basement and made it while we were upstairs playing games and such. Trix.--quit WoW as of 12/07Thank you 4be2jue for the wonderful sig and avatar! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RSBDavid Posted July 25, 2007 Share Posted July 25, 2007 i acciendenty made alcohol by trying to make homemade pop and using yeast and warm water as co2 maker and 2 weeks later and my dad tried some and he stumbled just a itty bit. we through out 4/5 of the bottles and i still have one barried somewhere with a paper clip glud to lid so ican find later [software Engineer] - [Ability Bar Suggestion] - [Gaming Enthusiast] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
knives669 Posted July 25, 2007 Share Posted July 25, 2007 Oh my god. I'd be too scared. :? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
handman003 Posted July 26, 2007 Share Posted July 26, 2007 My mom makes elderberry wine, and my grandpa makes blueberry wine...But I dunno how it's done, so I cant give advice. Sorry :( Resident Tip.it Cow. :^_^:[blog] [twitter] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dread_rasta Posted July 26, 2007 Share Posted July 26, 2007 Yea done Kilju before, but with current alcohol prices I rather stick with things that are stronger and somewhat drinkable. I've also had my experiences with the making of Kilju. Me and my brother were supposed to get a few gallons of it made by the time of a certain Finnish holiday and we were in a bit of a rush so we used something called 'super-yeast', which was supposed to speed up the process. Well, it didn't actually turn out as well as we had imagined. The yeast didn't actually work as fast as it was supposed to, so the fermentation wasn't quite finished when we started bottling it causing a massive pressure in the bottles. One night I woke up to a series of 'poof'-sounds and walked to the balcony, where I was keeping the bottles, just to find that the whole floor was flooding with a sticky fluid. #-o Nodding DuckRange: 71/80|Strenght:70/70 |Currently starting at members| Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
transcript80 Posted July 26, 2007 Share Posted July 26, 2007 ... He mixed milk with ethanol (coz it sounds like alcohol I suppose), ... Ethanol is an alcohol! Yes, but it's not drinkable in that form.. not safely anyway. It needs fermenting. Hence, this guys Darwin Award Yes you can drink "pure" ethanol. Not recommended though.... Alcohol in a chemistry book is a name for a carbon compound with an -OH group to it. The most known ones are methanol (CH3OH) and ethonol (C2H5OH). The alcohol in drinks is ethanol. But since alcohols are also used in cleaning (white spirit) or to get rid of grease, the manufacturers put in small percentages of (the very toxic) methanol. This is to prevent the local alcohol-addicted bum to down some really cheap car-degreaser for his addiction. To make "moonshine", people try to distill the toxic methanol from the ethanol. This is very hard, especially with amateur equipment. Therefor, drinking "monnshine' can be dangerous because of the high percentage of methanol in it. It is REALLY NOT RECOMMENDED to do it. o/t: an uncle of mine use to brew his own beer. It tasted really good, but it looked like vomit except for the little chuncks inside. Other data was removed when acoount got hacked... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
justin_m23 Posted July 26, 2007 Share Posted July 26, 2007 My Uncle brews his own beer. It tastes so good, the best i reckon I've tasted. Possible because it was free. But yeah, The taste is good, and it looks like normal beer too. Also, its apparently hang over free. Something about how it doesn't have preservatives, and thats what gives you hang overs. But i dunno about that, I'm a bit skeptical. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Futurama Posted July 26, 2007 Author Share Posted July 26, 2007 Also, its apparently hang over free. hahah, I doubt that, it's the alcohol that gives you a hangover and if there was such a thing it'd be popular as hell ;) but yeah you can drink ethanol, they do it in south america because they use ethanol to power their vehicles over there, drink it by the capful ;) anyway, i've looked into it and you can actually make it from supermarket apple juice so i'll be doing that! after the intial fermentation you can transfer it to a second container and add flavourings (fruit purees and the suchlike) to secondary ferment, then after a few weeks it's ready to drink! i'm getting started this weekend and when it's done we're all going out on the lash with it. i'll even be bottling it up and i've even made labels for the bottles! :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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