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Re: Making alcohol at home.

Post by Twohoots » Sun Nov 01, 2020 9:46 pm

When I was a kid we lived in the first house in our road. We would often get people knocking on the door at night asking where “the wine merchant” lived. It took my Dad quite a while to find out who the illegal home brewer was.

Re: Making alcohol at home.

Post by Jobless Oddball » Fri Oct 30, 2020 10:36 pm

I've heard sloe gin is a piece of piss!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Re: Making alcohol at home.

Post by Rolluplostinspace » Wed Oct 14, 2020 7:11 pm

Gabby wrote:
Rolluplostinspace wrote:
ArchieG wrote:The six quid bottle thing.... I assure you I can tell the difference, or I'd make wine from kits too. Not to say that you can't make something drinkable from a kit, with some care and experience.

Some of the Youtube vids are interesting .... no kits and no equipment either!
Bottle of 100% grape juice pour a third of it out of the bottle .... bung a cup full of sugar in shake until dissolved add yeast place cap loosely on top held in place with a little tape.
Once it stops bubbling syphon off leaving the gunk.
I have to try that just out of curiosity!


Hmmmm, that simple huh?... :leer:

It really is that simple and like I said what I tasted in the summer was a perfectly acceptable drink.
Take a look at this and note the lack of equipment >>>> >>>

Re: Making alcohol at home.

Post by Gabby » Wed Oct 14, 2020 3:30 pm

Rolluplostinspace wrote:
ArchieG wrote:The six quid bottle thing.... I assure you I can tell the difference, or I'd make wine from kits too. Not to say that you can't make something drinkable from a kit, with some care and experience.

Some of the Youtube vids are interesting .... no kits and no equipment either!
Bottle of 100% grape juice pour a third of it out of the bottle .... bung a cup full of sugar in shake until dissolved add yeast place cap loosely on top held in place with a little tape.
Once it stops bubbling syphon off leaving the gunk.
I have to try that just out of curiosity!


Hmmmm, that simple huh?... :leer:

Re: Making alcohol at home.

Post by Rolluplostinspace » Wed Oct 14, 2020 2:58 pm

ArchieG wrote:The six quid bottle thing.... I assure you I can tell the difference, or I'd make wine from kits too. Not to say that you can't make something drinkable from a kit, with some care and experience.

Some of the Youtube vids are interesting .... no kits and no equipment either!
Bottle of 100% grape juice pour a third of it out of the bottle .... bung a cup full of sugar in shake until dissolved add yeast place cap loosely on top held in place with a little tape.
Once it stops bubbling syphon off leaving the gunk.
I have to try that just out of curiosity!

Re: Making alcohol at home.

Post by ArchieG » Wed Oct 14, 2020 2:29 pm

The six quid bottle thing.... I assure you I can tell the difference, or I'd make wine from kits too. Not to say that you can't make something drinkable from a kit, with some care and experience.

Re: Making alcohol at home.

Post by Rolluplostinspace » Tue Oct 13, 2020 4:50 pm

ArchieG wrote:Whiskey is a high skill drink to make. I've tried a few moonshine versions, petrol tastes better. For anyone thinking of home distilling, by far the easiest drinkable ones to make are fruit vodkas. I suppose you could try making Calvados, as that's disgusting anyway, nobody would know the difference.


No I won't be tackling whiskey but vodka is a strong possibility.
Just about to order some turbo yeast.
I'm expecting booze shortages in the country so will be doing a lot of fast wine from grape and other juices.
It's not high class wine but I had a taste of some in the summer a white a red a pomegranate and blackcurrant and they were surprisingly pleasant and around 18%.
These fast juice wines take about six weeks but there are people making them in three weeks!
Anyone want to try do a Youtube search lots of good tips on there.
Cheap strong refreshing fruity wine while snowed or iced in this winter will be better than none and like I say it can be quite tasty.
For those of you .... probably all of you who drink six quid bottles three for a tenner etc from the supers you'll hardly notice the difference.

Re: Making alcohol at home.

Post by ArchieG » Tue Oct 13, 2020 4:32 pm

Whiskey is a high skill drink to make. I've tried a few moonshine versions, petrol tastes better. For anyone thinking of home distilling, by far the easiest drinkable ones to make are fruit vodkas. I suppose you could try making Calvados, as that's disgusting anyway, nobody would know the difference.

Re: Making alcohol at home.

Post by Rolluplostinspace » Tue Oct 13, 2020 11:06 am

Whisky whiskey is just vodka really when it first comes out of the still as it comes out crystal clear like water .... or vodka.
There's a variation from which point of the still it is taken off at the difference being when making vodka you're after purity but with whiskey you're after flavour.
Part of the flavour is oils phenols and other shit I can't remember the names of just now.
Most modern whiskey has added caramel colour and is chill filtered which gets rid of some of the best natural flavours unfortunately.
When you add a teaspoon of water to a dram it should go slightly cloudy (Scotch mist) but chill filtered doesn't do that.
The way to put someone off liking whisky is to start them off on Bells or The Famous Grouse or Jack Daniels ... very young fire water whiskey that would probably be better used fueling those little engines on model planes.
Whiskey gets its colour from ageing in oak barrels.
To be sold as whiskey it has to be aged a minimum of three years and bottled at a minimum of 40%.

Re: Making alcohol at home.

Post by ArchieG » Tue Oct 13, 2020 10:17 am

Major wrote:Around here and other parts of our island where I have shot people make sloe gin, never tasted a bad one yet.


I make sloe gin, but it's made with cheap supermarket gin, rather than it being home distilled. Save that for vodka, though of course gin is just infused vodka. Gin flavour, as long as you don't mind yellow gin, just chuck some spices and junipers in some vodka for a few days. If you want it clear, you have to infuse it during distillation, which is a bit more of a hassle, whereas vodka is easy to make. Adding flavours to your vodka is the in thing now, look at the array you can get in supermarkets even, let alone dedicated booze shops. Vodka and rum are about to go through the gentrification that's happened with gin. I was offered a share of a new gin distillery about 5 years ago. Best investment I never made.....bugger!

Re: Making alcohol at home.

Post by Major » Tue Oct 13, 2020 10:05 am

Around here and other parts of our island where I have shot people make sloe gin, never tasted a bad one yet.

Re: Making alcohol at home.

Post by Gabby » Mon Oct 12, 2020 9:06 pm

Rolluplostinspace wrote:
art0hur0moh wrote:
drum wrote:
art0hur0moh wrote:
Rolluplostinspace wrote:I'm ready for about three hundred pints of bitter at a time .... but it's slow making beer.
I'm ready for around ten gallons of fifteen% wine every six weeks.
Spirits ... well I'm looking into it.
Any hints are most welcome because the times they are a changing.

when it comes to spirits you might want to check what the law says about it?



It's only a problem with the law if they catch you :pmsl:


the reason i don't vote, no obligatory taxis!

You disabled?


:pmsl: :pmsl:

Re: Making alcohol at home.

Post by Rolluplostinspace » Sat Oct 10, 2020 9:26 pm

art0hur0moh wrote:
drum wrote:
art0hur0moh wrote:
Rolluplostinspace wrote:I'm ready for about three hundred pints of bitter at a time .... but it's slow making beer.
I'm ready for around ten gallons of fifteen% wine every six weeks.
Spirits ... well I'm looking into it.
Any hints are most welcome because the times they are a changing.

when it comes to spirits you might want to check what the law says about it?



It's only a problem with the law if they catch you :pmsl:


the reason i don't vote, no obligatory taxis!

You disabled?

Re: Making alcohol at home.

Post by art0hur0moh » Sat Oct 10, 2020 9:21 pm

drum wrote:
art0hur0moh wrote:
Rolluplostinspace wrote:I'm ready for about three hundred pints of bitter at a time .... but it's slow making beer.
I'm ready for around ten gallons of fifteen% wine every six weeks.
Spirits ... well I'm looking into it.
Any hints are most welcome because the times they are a changing.

when it comes to spirits you might want to check what the law says about it?



It's only a problem with the law if they catch you :pmsl:


the reason i don't vote, no obligatory taxis!

Re: Making alcohol at home.

Post by drum » Thu Oct 08, 2020 10:01 am

art0hur0moh wrote:
Rolluplostinspace wrote:I'm ready for about three hundred pints of bitter at a time .... but it's slow making beer.
I'm ready for around ten gallons of fifteen% wine every six weeks.
Spirits ... well I'm looking into it.
Any hints are most welcome because the times they are a changing.

when it comes to spirits you might want to check what the law says about it?



It's only a problem with the law if they catch you :pmsl:

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