/diy/ - Do It Yourself

>>1790308
Depends how much time you have and what you want. Lots of drinks are made by fermentation only (Champaign, mead, wine, etc.) but spirits require distillation (whiskey, tequila, cognac, etc.). Do you want a distilled spirit (fast but expensive, difficult) or fermentation (slower but cheap and easy)

>>1790309
I've been thinking of fermentation, specifically something such as juice.

>>1790308
read the catalog before starting a thread. there's a homebrew general: >>1763906

>>1790308
god help me I have spent so much time on here that the first thing I thought was the jew rubbing his hands
I may be a lost cause at this point anons

>>1790310
but since you're already here, sugar+water+raisins×time=alcohol. raisins have wild yeast on the outside and yeast nutrients on the inside, sugar turns to alcohol, water keeps osmotic pressure low enough the yeast can live to ferment sugar to alcohol. there's more to it, but like i said read the general. there's lots of info there.

>>1790315
don't forget, you're here forever.

Juice and yeast

>>1790317
Do what this anon said, don't go reading and over analyzing shit. I made what we called "buck" while in jail. Turned out fine. We threw fruit and apple/orange juice, and sugar in bottles and put them under our bunks to ferment. Burp the bottles twice daily or theyll bust. You'll know when they're ready cause when you're burping them they'll smell like alcohol. That, and you can see the yeast eating the sugar up and making it fizz

>>1790308
you need sugar and a time

boil some water so its sterile and add some sugar, pour it in a glass and leave it out uncovered. naturally occurring yeast will infect it and start making alcohol, it won;t be brewers yeast but it might allow allow concentrations of alcohol that will kill the nasty microbes that invade with the yeast.

if you see mold/mother, dump it and start over.

after a few days taste it, if it tastes anything like vinegar dump it

then just its just using that as a yeast starter for brewing more sugar water into alcohol, you;ll want to keep this one covered.

you can make a makeshift airlock with a balloon or condom by putting a piece of scotch tape or packing tape and poking a hole in it with a pin.

>>1790590
*cough*

>>1790308
Jenkem is your only option.

>>1790593
already have it :P

>>1790308
get stuff with sugar or starch in it (anything that tastes sweet when chewed), cut or crush into tiny pieces, mix with water until it's a sludge, throw in yeast (or spit in it and hope that's enough), fill into a alrge vessel that's either not completely full (so a co2 layer can develop on top) or closed with a fermentation pipe or similiar.
Let stand until it no longer bubbles.
Sieve or press the fluid off, and you've got wine.

>>1790309
You can do freeze fortification with minimal equipment as well. Doesn't get you anywhere near as far as distillation, but it's something.

Basically if you put your wine/cider/mead into the freezer, much of the water will freeze, and the alcohol won't. Freeze it, pour off the liquid. There's going to be a high amount of variability from batch to batch with this method of course.

>>1790308
>buy bottle of apple juice
>pour out 3 inches from top
>pour in an ordinary packet of yeast
>put a little hole in a balloon or condom
>stretch over mouth of bottle
>wait a week

>>1790994
airlocks are like, a dollar please use those

you can homebrew good cider for like ten bucks

Spend some money on a liophylized yeast. I think I saw a good tier at amazon for vodka production (13 to 14% of alcohol volume).
Add purified water on a clean bottle with loads of common sugar and then add the yeast.
Be sure of giving yeast a small headspace, i would recommend 5% of the total bottle volume.
Close the top with a balloon and leave it for 2 weeks.
If you want to purify you should get a distillation kit.