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I know we're a diverse group of people with a lot of hobbies other than high voltage and electronics. Lately I've been taking an interest in homebrewing. Anyone else brew their own alcoholic (or even non-alcoholic) beverages?
I find there's a surprising amount of similarity between homebrewing beer and homebrewing Tesla coils. Both hobbies can range from cheap to expensive, both are wide open for experimentation, and both benefit from a meticulous and systematic approach.
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Used to do fruit wines, with variable results. I do fruit schnapps now - fruit soaked in home brewed vodka. Good fun. key point with home brew : sterilize EVERYTHING, including your arms up to the elbows!
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In my teens I brewed beer from kits, and at college a group of us did it from scratch, with hops and malt bought locally. So a few years ago, my wife and I tried making wine with the elderberries that grew locally. The first year we made 5 gallons. It was wonderful, smooth, deep red, tasted like port, strong, and didn't leave you with a hangover. Thus encouraged, the next year year we made 15 gallons. It was awful, disgusting, I thought of selling as paint-stripper or board etch, we couldn't even cook with it. I guess we got careless with the hygiene?
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I distill absinth sometimes, which I belive to be entirely legal because I use 96% ethanol that I have paid enormous taxes for. I am also making a walnut schnapps.
Of course i am too young to be making alcoholic drinks, so I have fun making different forms of lemonade with different things in it, and mixing drinks to form something that sounds totally disgusting, and it sometimes tastes good. More often than drinks I make improv meals. I can't cook well and sometimes the food isn't ready so I make something from junk I find in the pantry/cabinet. I have three words for whenever I do that; SO MUCH SALT....
Edit: I've heard stories of people trying to make the Harry Potter butterbeer at home and miserably failing. I am not going to take that risk if I have a Universal pass and live five minutes from Universal. But I'd still like to try, some water, some sugar, some butterscotch flavoring, some vanilla extract, some yeast... and one more ingredient, that I forget. Or was the water club soda...
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Nice... I've just finished brewing/bottling 18 bottles of elderflower wine, 6 bottles of elderberry wine, 10 gallons of 6% "real ale" and 3 gallons of 11% Belgian abbey dark beer.
Just started a batch of mango wine and banana wine. Won't be ready to drink until at least the summer... Whether it'll be "drinkable," time will tell.
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You bet! Award winning wines and beers! Matter of fact i have about 50 gallons of wine in carboys right now and 20 gallons of beer in carboys waiting for an empty keg to call home!
Edit: 9.50 Keep the amylase handy to clear that banana wine up! If you don't use it up front your wine will look like milk. Add the amylase and it will look like a snow globe for about a week! Afterwards, enjoy some very delicious wine! The banana wine is terrific!!
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Anyone else homebrewing?
