On Dec 9, 2:41*pm, "malc" > wrote:
> osterage72 wrote:
> > class! thanks for the advice guys! iv now realised this is a 'septic
> > tank' website! for u thick people in america, thats rhyming slang (and
> > a pretty close comparison) to 'yanks'! so get yourself to some other
> > poor 3rd world country, kill thousands of women and kids, and thieve
> > all of there natural resources u scum bags!
>
> Oh, so you were a troll all along. BTW I'm posting from the UK
>
> --
> Malc
> R1100RS old and tatty
>
> You laugh at me because I am different
> I laugh at you because you are all the same

>hello all! im wanting to make some form of alcohol. whether it be
>wine/cider/beer/anything really! however i dont really want to have to
>buy any equipment. anyone got any strokes of genius they fancy passing
>my way?

Umm...Osterage72, based on your requirements, I think this is a pretty
damn good way to make "free" ethanol. Quite creative really! You
could even make it high-end by finding the dregs of thrown out fruit
juice bottles and dripping them in too. Chances are they are already
on their way to fermentation anyway, so you'll have some uniqueness
too.

Or, if you have a store like Whole Foods (or trader joes?), they carry
1 gallon jugs of apple juice with no preservatives in glass
containers. PERFECT!
AppleJuice+Glass gallon jug = $6.99 Better yet, buy a couple. Now
we're at $13.98 ...hang in there, you can usually borrow this amount
from even not-so-reliable friends. Buy a packet of Lavlin1118
yeast...maybe $1.00 from a local homebrew shop. @14.98 now. Sprinkle
the packet into both jugs...it would work for up to 5 gallons if you
can scrape that kind of dough together for the extra juice. These
jugs wont handle carbonation, so don't seal them up when pitching the
yeast in...if you can afford rubber stoppers+airlocks (approx $3.00 at
my local homebrew shop), then great. If not, hobo-style will work
with varying results by using balloons, preferably sterilized by
boiling in water for a few minutes. If using balloons, don't poke
holes as you might risk infection of your cider. So we're at $14.98
if you can find a couple balloons, or $21.98 if you can get the
airlocks, which are reusable and preferred. Carefully rock the jugs
around daily and shake them up to get air moving around for 5 days or
so. After 5 days, don't shake anymore and let it keep going for a
couple/3 weeks and things start settling down. The crud at the bottom
is yeast. The stuff on top is ethanol and the remnants of the apple
juice. It will finish dry and perhaps contain about 6 or 7% alcohol
by volume. Drink that cider up. BTW, throw in a cup of sugar into
each jug in the beginning to boost ethanol levels. That yeast is
super hardy up to ridiculously high alcohol levels.

.... but if you're after cheap, I still suspect doing it from borrowed
sugar, bottles recovered from the trash, and a dollar of yeast is much
cheaper ($1.00) for gallons of simple ~20 proof alcohol is a better
way to go. Why sweat spending $21.98 for equivalent of 20x 355ml
bottles of cider when you could buy a 30 pack of Natural Ice for way
less?