My friend and I want to try making some cider or something similarly easy. Anyone here done this, and have some tips/resources to share? We wanted to start with cider since it seemed really simple, but anything is fine.
My brother and his friends made an IPA using some sort of kit. I can't remember what it was called but the beer turned out pretty good actually. Only took one summer if I remember correctly.
Maybe this will help? Can't say I know anything about it.
[video=youtube;GvVtw2PKCyY]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvVtw2PKCyY[/video]
My dad makes his own wine from time to time, he just buys a 25 liter starter pack at the store.
You mix the shit together with water and at a fuckton of sugar and then you let the barrel just stand there for a couple of weeks while shaking it like every 7th day
You can get some pretty cool setups. My uncle does his own homebrew traditional german style beers. Must be in the family, my family overseas does wines. He bought a display from a homebrew shop. Takes like half his garage. every time I'm there he has a huge glass jar of mushy stuff fermenting in his closet too. Stuff is delicious.
I would research online and ask around at homebrew shops. Or you can make a simple fruit wine with old fruit and yeast. Won't taste good but will get you drunk. Once I accidentally let dates sit there for too long, alcohol got left at the bottom and was drinkable. Didn't make us sick. :cool:
I never tasted homemade alcohol, but seen on tv, some old men get raided by police for cooking vodka in the forest. Remember if you see smoke coming from some forest in Lithuania, do not be panic it's probably just some old geezers trying to cook vodka before police van arrives...
My mom is big into making her own wines, she pretty much does it exactly like how bigclive shows in the video above. Extremely straight forward except instead of using fast acting yeast, she uses actual wine yeasts and these things can sit in those jars for up to over 2 months before they stop bubbling.
We just recently bottled up a new set which she brewed using blackberries she picked not far from here, the end result was an extremely nice dry wine which we think is around 17%, we have had one of our older sets which we did out of elderberries and that fucker was well over 25%, the yeast went to town on that set, it was more like fruited vodka than wine, if that set was to ever get distilled I have no idea how strong it would get.
Also do check if distilling is legal or not, for example here in the UK if you're caught doing it you'll get slammed hard with a fine.
Normally though making wine, cider or any other non-distilled alcohol is fine, mostly because they'll never yield high % and they take a long time to produce.
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