a bit tipsy on this lemon vodka i distilled a few days ago. mixed it with some cherry kool-aid and it's doing its job at $1 a bottle :P
2023-04-03 at 4:01 PM UTC
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anyone homebrew / moonshine?
Starting homebrewing about 4 months ago and distilling about 2 months ago. I moved to Indonesia about a year ago, where booze is scarce and spendy.
Basic homebrewing can be done pretty easily with most fruit juices. I get a 1 liter bottle of grape juice or apple juice, pour it into a (fresh) 1.5L of water that I remove ~1.25L of water from, add a bit of sugar and bread yeast, shake it up real good, then add a balloon with pinholes on the lid for a makeshift airlock. Cost: about $1.5 for a liter of ~10% hooch, wait time: about 10 days. Throw it in the fridge for a day then siphon off to drink.
Fermenting sugar water (kilju) or honey (mead) is also fine, or any mix of the above. Goes fine with mixers too. Orange juice sounds good in theory but does not work in practice.
More time = better results, so I tend to make 5 or 10 bottles at a time,
As for distilling, I got a ~$100 20L (5 gallon) pot still from Indonesian Amazon (a generic Chinese stainless steel "water distiller") and a 1500W electric heater. Because they sell drinking water in 20L jugs here, I pour out about 2 or 3 liters of water into a jug (for future drinking or fermenting), melt down 3kg of sugar with some of the remaining water with multivitamins and yeast, and add the juice of one lemon. The heat kills the yeast and melts the sugar, which I pour back into the jug. The lemon juice helps the sugar invert and also lowers the hooch's PH. Then, when it cools down to tepid (a bit over 100F or around 40C) I add a packet or two of bread yeast to the 20L jug. The boiled yeast and vitamin act as yeast nutrient. After about 2 weeks, it's ready to distill at 10% strength. For this process, I use a proper airlock; finding a stopper that fits the 20L jugs of water was easy and cheap.
I make 3 of these 20L jugs, distill them one at a time to produce "low wines", then redistill these 3 hooches together in the still and aim for accurate cuts (based on smell and taste). Because I don't use all of the fermented sugar wines to distill initially, I use it to water down the low wines a bit while increasing output (waste not, want not). I get about 10 jars of vodka for about $15, including electric for the still, with this tech, the main expense being the sugar. I made some brandy this way but the flavor improvement didn't justify the increased cost. Got a lot more flavor boost adding some lemon peels to the low wines for a few days to get some nice lemon taste. Still need to experiment with more flavors.
2017-02-26 at 2:55 AM UTC
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lockpicking
so ive gathered a bunch of resources devoted to lockpicking (ebooks, textfiles, videos, etc)
what im wondering now is, what picks would you guys recommend?
im worry about the cheap-ass $2 chinese picks, like they may break after a few uses or something
but at the same time i dont wanna dump $60 into a hobby that i may not dig
tips advice stories etc
2017-01-26 at 12:46 AM UTC
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Rioting next week
It's cool, I didn't get arrested / beaten because I'm not a moron
Let the street kids on drugs and SJWs overdosing on tumblr take the blunt of the force
2017-01-19 at 11:33 PM UTC
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Why not niggersin.space?
the queer nigerians of osaka
2017-01-19 at 10:55 PM UTC
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Not doing drugs
just hit da bong . . . . oh
2017-01-19 at 10:53 PM UTC
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Rioting next week
Any advice folks? This is the Bad Ideas forum.
2017-01-14 at 5:36 PM UTC
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Rioting next week
anyone want to riot with me next Friday in Portland, OR?
post if you live by another major US city, maybe some of us can go do things niggas-in-space style
Post last edited by omg at 2017-01-14T17:39:21.986721+00:00
christians are morons
i say that as a philosopher
2017-01-11 at 3:36 PM UTC
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why to save nudes
When karma is more than just a "thanks given" number on my profile I can dump. Idk. Are you guys into skinny/athletic korean chicks?
2017-01-11 at 2:28 PM UTC
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why to save nudes
Post last edited by omg at 2017-01-19T22:56:55.449393+00:00
an underground railroad for PCP
2017-01-11 at 2:11 PM UTC
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soakeing wed
dont eat too much of your weeds, im sick of cleaning your throw-up
