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Does anyone know how to brew alcohol without supermarkets (brewers yeast, white sugar, etc.?) Hopefully it doesn't sound too ridiculous, but I still want to get drunk after I can't buy the necessary...

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Wild Fermentation by Sandor Katz is a good place to start. It emphasizes food fermentation more, but it does have information on producing various beverages using naturally occurring yeasts --...

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5 gallon buckets can be used for making a nice-sized batch of brew. They are pretty easy to find, and I bet they will for a long time to come. I know some kids who have used pieces of bread for their...

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It depends on what you want to make. Simple, relatively weak alcohol can be made from anything sweet (including fruits of all sorts). Grains are easier in some ways, but require a kick start to get...

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If I remember correctly, the Egyptian beer recipe uses an undercooked sourdough loaf as its starter. It needs to be raw in the middle since cooking kills the yeast...

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I forgot about sugar beets. That grows in the cooler climates of the U.S. My great-grandparents grew sorghum. I wonder what maple syrup wine would taste like--thinking of alternatives to sugar cane or...

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i remember Ran said somewhere he drinks fermented apple juice I wonder how he makes it, does he add a chemical to the apple juice to make it ferment?

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zombans wrote: Dolly Freed has a great chapter on the necessities of life, in her book possum living. The whole book is great, in fact. You got that right. Her book is super entertaining, though some...

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im2park wrote: i remember Ran said somewhere he drinks fermented apple juice I wonder how he makes it, does he add a chemical to the apple juice to make it ferment? Using preservative-free...

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While I was renewing my rye sourdough starter after leaving it for a few weeks, I noticed a familiar smell, ethyl alcohol with impurities, in other words the old rye sourdough smelled in a sense like...

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Yes, I used to ferment apple juice all the time. I quit because it was rotting my teeth. If you drink apple juice, fermented or not, you really need to rinse your mouth out afterwards every time....

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Just a tip on apple jack, when you freeze the water out, you leave behind the alcohol AND the fusels and (minute amounts of) methanol. This won't make you sick or anything, but I've heard it would...

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I have a friend who freeze concentrates a lot of his wine. I don't, partly because I don't enjoy hard liquor, and I very much enjoy the taste of the wine we brew. I don't use campden tablets, mostly...

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I had to look up Campden tablets. Here's the Wikipedia page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campden_tablets Apparently, if you want a highly controlled process, you add campden tablets before...

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