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Summer seems to have started a little early this year here in Colorado, and brought along all of its pleasant side effects. Abandoning the socks and shoes, gathering with local friends to play in the park and watch the sunsets, and of course an increased consumption of cold beverages.
It was all in the practicalities: the brewing process takes a couple of hours and involves quite a bit of repetitive labor that can be guilt-inducing for those of us who like to use all our time productively. Bottling is a particularly slow chore, and the more efficient alternative of keg storage encourages excessive beer consumption because you end up with your own refrigerated beer tap taunting you at all hours. To top it all off, the home-brewed beer was only slightly cheaper than the local microbrews, which can be found for just over a dollar a bottle around here if you pick them up during a sale.
The key to this whole deal is that we have eliminated the time-consuming parts of beer and wine brewing. Instead of boiling grains for hours and adding multiple ingredients, we use just one ingredient. Instead of washing carboys and siphoning from one to another, we ferment in just the bottle supplied with the juice. And instead of sterilizing and capping dozens of bottles afterwards, we just throw that same bottle in the fridge and serve directly from it. The result is obviously not beer, but the variety of fruits and other sweet things that Nature makes available will still keep your taste buds entertained.
I just started this experiment two weeks ago. We cracked the first bottle last night, and it was such a success that I decided to share the results with you as well as start a few more bottles for future use.
You can imagine the surprise of her roommates when she found the bottle, cracked it open, and caught whiffs of alcohol from the bottle. The dirty looks and stares were hilarious, and she definitely had some explaining to do to the floor RA.
I have taken the same idea as oztops, but we have two carbonation levels, sparkling, and soda like, and we are American Made.
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Is the fermentation sugar limited? I was always under the impression that the process stopped when the result got too alcoholic for the yeast to handle. Is it the champagne yeast that allows it to metabolize more sugar than normal?
The ABV tolerance for beer yeast is around 8-12 percent, so it would have no problem handling normal fruit juice. Wine yeast has an even higher tolerance, so this is even less of an issue. Wine yeast (ie. champagne yeast) will ferment out very dry, and is cheap if bought at a homebrew store, so it is a good choice here. You could use beer yeast if you wanted a slightly sweeter final product.
We did an experiment recently when we took our children off of fruit juices. 4 1-gallon jugs of cranberry juice were converted to cranberry wine in much the same way as described here (we added one cup of sugar per 1-gallon container)
The result was a delicious, dry (not sweet), cranberry-smelling wine.
So yeah. Cranberry juice works just fine, and the alcohol content was quite high (based only on how drunk I felt after drinking it, not on scientific hydrometer testing).
I once had a batch of over-carbonated bottles explode more than 6 months after bottling. I can only guess why it took so long, but I ended up disposing of all of the remainders by opening with leather gloves and safety glasses on. More than one bottle exploded in my hand when I went to remove the cap. There are pictures out there of people having severely lacerated hands from this exact scenario. Just a warning that the bottles can fail catastrophically even if all you are doing is removing the cap.
You can probably pour out the cider or juice especially for the stuff at the top if you are very careful not to stir up the sediment at the bottom, pour very slowly and gently; but it gets harder as you get down to the bottom of the fermenting container.
A good rule of thumb is you get out up to 1/4 inch above where the dregs start; to be safe, I take out no more than 1/2 inch above (let small the remainder go at the bottom of the container, it is not worth getting sick over)
A safer method would be to give ample time to allow fermentation to complete, then add back sugar or more juice so you can have a controlled carbonation with no need for long-term cold storage. The best method would be to rack it off to a new jug so you can get rid of the sediment, but I digress into a more complicated process reminiscent of the full thing!
On another note, from personal experience I think there are much better yeasts to use than champagne. For hard cider, I can personally recommend the Belgain Ardennes ( _yeaststrain_detail.cfm?ID=136) or the Edinburgh Scottish Ale yeast ( -edinburgh-scottish-ale-yeast) both available at your local homebrew shop. And the best part is you only have to buy them once by salvaging and recycling used yeast ( -washing-illustrated-41768/). Or for an even lazier method, free to scrape a tablespoon or two of sediment from the bottom of an old bottle and throw it straight into a new jug of juice!
You might also consider using a yeast with lower tolerance and a profile more suited to fruit juice. Red Star has a number of cheap options, and their Cote des Blancs reads about right for a juice like this.
I suppose it depends on what you plan to jam it into. The site tells you the size of the available plugs (bungs) on both ends. You can buy the bung and airlocks seperately at the same cost, so measure your bottle opening and buy accordingly. Alternatively, get a 1 gal growler for fermenting it and pickup the cap for them that accepts the airlock (the growler caps that accept airlocks are cheaper than the bungs). That said measuing the plug would be cheaper.
Yet another example of what happens when you gather creative, entrepreneurial-type people together and encourage the sharing of ideas. Instead of spending $8 on a trendy six-pack every week, we will now be using this wonderful method to fuel our alcohol addictions!
We go through a gallon/wk and constantly change up the fruit/juice we use to flavor it as well as different teas for the kombucha which change the flavor as well. Takes maybe 1 hr/week and it can be brewed at a low level so the kids can drink it as well e.g < .5%.
My favorite fancy unfiltered apple cider comes in a plastic gallon milk jug. It seems like you could brew hard cider using the lazy method directly in the plastic jug without worrying about the pressure. Has anyone tried this? Is there anything I should be watching out for if I do it that way? Thanks in advance for the advice.
Excellent calculations, Middleman. You are right that the strong stuff is even cheaper than DIY homebrewing with fancy juice. Especially here in the US where our taxes on booze are very low. In Canada and other countries with sin taxes, the equation tilts further towards homebrewing.
To be honest, I got tired of the sweet, fruity tasting alcohol by going this route. Over time, I started to miss the wonderful malty favors that only the barley and grains in beer can bring, thus I am going in the opposite direction you are (back to beer).
You can get more cost savings with brewing beer at home by doing all-grain rather than the extract brewing that your previous homebrew article covered. Again I would refer to the MMM forum where some really knowable, experienced mustachians know more than me about this.
As for bottling, there is a nice middle ground solution, between bottling 48-50 12 oz bottles and kegging. I found through my research that you can get 1L, EZ cap or swing top bottles. This reduces the sanitizing bottle step down from 48-50 bottles to about 17 bottles for a 5 gallon batch. Also the EZ cap or swing tops eliminate the need for capping, thus saving labor in the most tedious part of the process.
1. Use a 2 liter plastic bottle (which can handles tons more pressure than glass), fill it to a couple inches from the top, squeeze out the excess air and cap it. When it re-expands and becomes firm to the touch it is carbonated and ready to drink.
2. If you are using a glass bottle leave it in the garage or in a sealed garbage bag should it decide to explode. If the metal lid is tenting upward, simply unscrew it and allow some pressure to escape and the re tighten the lid.
There is no reason to go fancy. Speaking of Costco, I have been buying the 2 gallon package (2 1 gallon bottles strapped together with handy carrying handles) of Kirkland Apple Juice (not from concentrate). It contains 100% apple juice with no additives and works excellently for this project. I have been experimenting with adding cinnamon (good), more cinnamon (just finishing up) and allspice (just finishing up). So far I have made 2 gallons, one with a 1/2 tsp of Cinnamon and one without, and the wife and I loved them. I preferred the cinnamon added.
This is a fabulous idea and I would think that it would be a tasty main ingredient in a party punch bowl. I will definitely try it in preparation for entertaining this summer. I especially like the social aspect of sharing a freshly made batch with friends.
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