jimbostarr
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I made this recipe with Wal-Mart Apple juice two months ago and it turned out great- even when I bottled it!
Here is a new experiment I am trying:
This is for a 5 gallon carboy.
6 three liter bottles of Wal-Mart fruit punch (vitamin C as preservative only)
10 C white sugar
EC 1118 and half K1 V1116 yeast
2 tsp yeast nutrient (optional)
Put 5 ½ of the bottles in the carboy. Pour remaining into saucepan on high and dissolve sugar into it (no need to boil). Pour into carboy.
Start yeast in ½ cup warm water. After an hour pitch it. Mix it in with the drill bit tool attached to drill. Measure for OG. Put on the airlock with some water and keep it around 55 degrees.
If there are no bubbles in two days, add 2 tsp yeast nutrient.
In about two or three weeks its done (when bubbles stop).
Add Super Klear and spin it in with carboy drill bit.
Let clear (about two days) rack to secondary. Wait another two days and rack once more. Bottle the next day.
After a few weeks test a bottle to make sure there is not too much pressure. If they are nice and bubbly (and you cant drink what is left- very rare) pasteurize the bottles in the dishwasher on the rinse cycle. Wait until bottles are cooled to remove.
2/17/14 OG w/ sugar: 1.09, abv 11%
Here is a new experiment I am trying:
This is for a 5 gallon carboy.
6 three liter bottles of Wal-Mart fruit punch (vitamin C as preservative only)
10 C white sugar
EC 1118 and half K1 V1116 yeast
2 tsp yeast nutrient (optional)
Put 5 ½ of the bottles in the carboy. Pour remaining into saucepan on high and dissolve sugar into it (no need to boil). Pour into carboy.
Start yeast in ½ cup warm water. After an hour pitch it. Mix it in with the drill bit tool attached to drill. Measure for OG. Put on the airlock with some water and keep it around 55 degrees.
If there are no bubbles in two days, add 2 tsp yeast nutrient.
In about two or three weeks its done (when bubbles stop).
Add Super Klear and spin it in with carboy drill bit.
Let clear (about two days) rack to secondary. Wait another two days and rack once more. Bottle the next day.
After a few weeks test a bottle to make sure there is not too much pressure. If they are nice and bubbly (and you cant drink what is left- very rare) pasteurize the bottles in the dishwasher on the rinse cycle. Wait until bottles are cooled to remove.
2/17/14 OG w/ sugar: 1.09, abv 11%