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Cheap ways to make alcohol?

  1. 2024-01-17 at 7:02 PM UTC
    #1
    Kingoffrogs Appendage of Stan
    Does anyone know an easy way to make cider? I don't need it to be good, but I can buy apples in bulk for cheap. This fact combined with the fact that I have 2 years until I can legally buy alcohol leads me to the conclusion that my best option to procure alcohol is to make it myself when I move out.

    Are there any other cheaper and easier alternatives to making cider?
  2. 2024-01-17 at 7:12 PM UTC
    #2
    the man who put it in my hood Black Hole
    if you can get your own fruit it's very cheap, when I lived in a rural area I could easily fill my entire freezer full of grapes or cherries and trade it and end up with a bottle of wine or a jar of shine, my uncle would go around to various places collecting everyones fruit and then take it to his brewer friend like a big group effort everyone contributes either fruit or brewing gear and everyone gets some booze out of it

  3. 2024-01-17 at 7:14 PM UTC
    #3
    the man who put it in my hood Black Hole
    i heard of people on food stamps using the stamps to buy only grape juice, yeast and sugar and spending their entire EBT on home made hooch. Fuck eating
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  4. 2024-01-17 at 7:24 PM UTC
    #4
    Meikai Heck This Schlong
    I'm not exactly well versed in the specifics of the brewer's art, but if quality is not a concern, it's really as simple as sugar + water + baker's yeast. So if all you care about is "enough alcohol to get tipsy", that kinda bummy ass sugar wine is probably the way to go. You can do it in a milk jug using a regular party balloon for an airlock, even.

    That said, if you're planning on getting drunk on nothing but homebrew for the next 2 years, it might be worth it to invest in some actual kit like brewing yeast, a glass carboy or two, and an actual airlock.

    I don't have any exact recipes for you, but it's worth bearing in mind that you really probably don't actually need one. Prison niggas are brewing as we speak in plastic bags. Humans have been getting drunk for millennia. It's easy as fuck to make alcohol. I suspect the way to go about making cider would probably be to dice up your apples, boil them for a bit, mash them up in the pot with the water you boiled em in, and then pour that into your [sterilized] brewing vessel. Top it up with cold water, and then probably use something like this champagne yeast? Pop on your airlock, wait a month or two, et voila.

    EDIT: Yeah, first result after googling for best cider yeast was someone talking about EC-1118. I figured. It's also what you use for honey wine/mead, iirc. That's the extent of my specific, usable knowledge anyway. There's probably an easy-to-follow 10 minute youtube video that walks you through every step of brewing just about any alcohol you can dream up, assuming you want more detailed/less sketchy instructions.
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  5. 2024-01-17 at 7:28 PM UTC
    #5
    Instigator Space Nigga
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kilju

    Made this cause I read about on totse and other sites when I was 15, I sort of neglected it under my bed for too long and when I came home from school it exploded and my whole room stank of wine for ages and I got a telling off but then I just learnt it was easier shoplifting alcohol.
  6. 2024-01-17 at 8:20 PM UTC
    #6
    Instigator Space Nigga
  7. 2024-01-18 at 3:07 AM UTC
    #7
    trippymindfuk African Astronaut
    Seems simple enough
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  8. 2024-01-18 at 3:19 AM UTC
    #8
    IHateAsiansAndRice Yung Blood
    Originally posted by trippymindfuk Seems simple enough

    recommend buying some yeast nutrient or else it will smell awful
    learned that the hard way
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  9. 2024-01-18 at 8:24 AM UTC
    #9
    Donald Trump Black Hole
    I'm actually going to make some cider later.

    It's just some apple juice and sugar and yeast in a glass jug.



    I've done it with apples before, the hard part is mashing them to get the juice out. Blackberry wine is the best too. You can make almost anything alcoholic.

    Main thing is to prevent air getting at whatever you're fermenting. Most bacteria need oxygen to grow, while yeast doesn't. Yeast ferment sugars and excrete alcohol and CO2, which smothers bacteria.
  10. 2024-01-20 at 1:28 AM UTC
    #10
    Solstice Naturally Camouflaged
    Originally posted by the man who put it in my hood i heard of people on food stamps using the stamps to buy only grape juice, yeast and sugar and spending their entire EBT on home made hooch. Fuck eating

    Ray?
  11. 2024-01-20 at 7:10 AM UTC
    #11
    pass the cheese please Houston
    Originally posted by Meikai I'm not exactly well versed in the specifics of the brewer's art, but if quality is not a concern, it's really as simple as sugar + water + baker's yeast. So if all you care about is "enough alcohol to get tipsy", that kinda bummy ass sugar wine is probably the way to go. You can do it in a milk jug using a regular party balloon for an airlock, even.

    That said, if you're planning on getting drunk on nothing but homebrew for the next 2 years, it might be worth it to invest in some actual kit like brewing yeast, a glass carboy or two, and an actual airlock.

    I don't have any exact recipes for you, but it's worth bearing in mind that you really probably don't actually need one. Prison niggas are brewing as we speak in plastic bags. Humans have been getting drunk for millennia. It's easy as fuck to make alcohol. I suspect the way to go about making cider would probably be to dice up your apples, boil them for a bit, mash them up in the pot with the water you boiled em in, and then pour that into your [sterilized] brewing vessel. Top it up with cold water, and then probably use something like this champagne yeast? Pop on your airlock, wait a month or two, et voila.

    EDIT: Yeah, first result after googling for best cider yeast was someone talking about EC-1118. I figured. It's also what you use for honey wine/mead, iirc. That's the extent of my specific, usable knowledge anyway. There's probably an easy-to-follow 10 minute youtube video that walks you through every step of brewing just about any alcohol you can dream up, assuming you want more detailed/less sketchy instructions.

    This is literally as cheap as it gets.
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