I’m about to deploy to iraq for a second time and I’m looking for recipes on how to make wine with whatever fruits are available at the mess hall. Any advice?
Alcohol can be derived by allowing yeast to ferment any sort of sugar. If you have nothing else, you can make wine by mixing a packet of baker’s yeast into a bucket of fruit juice with an airlock and allowing it to sit and ferment for a week and a half or two. A rudimentary airlock can be constructed by drilling a hole in the lid of the bucket you’re using as a fermenter and running a length of plastic tubing into a glass or bottle of water. This will allow the carbon dioxide produced in the process of fermentation to escape the fermenter without allowing air to be sucked back up the tube. The resulting wine will be very, very yeasty however, so it’s usually a good idea to use designated wine yeast, which can be purchased cheaply from many online retailers. Ideally, you’d also use wine grapes, although wine can be made from any type of fruit with a reasonable sugar content.
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March 15th, 2010 at 9:43 pm
Chef at home… watch it… she makes good wines
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March 15th, 2010 at 9:48 pm
innnneresting question.
good luck, brave one!
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March 15th, 2010 at 10:06 pm
Ingesting home-made chemicals is dangerous, so you might want to invest in a kit to get started. Hope you don’t get into trouble with your superiors. Would also be worth giving yourself a crash course in the chemistry of fermentation to help you know what is going on. Make a quick visit to wikipedia for related articles on this.
Hoping you are safe and stationed someplace good soon.
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March 15th, 2010 at 10:12 pm
Alcohol can be derived by allowing yeast to ferment any sort of sugar. If you have nothing else, you can make wine by mixing a packet of baker’s yeast into a bucket of fruit juice with an airlock and allowing it to sit and ferment for a week and a half or two. A rudimentary airlock can be constructed by drilling a hole in the lid of the bucket you’re using as a fermenter and running a length of plastic tubing into a glass or bottle of water. This will allow the carbon dioxide produced in the process of fermentation to escape the fermenter without allowing air to be sucked back up the tube. The resulting wine will be very, very yeasty however, so it’s usually a good idea to use designated wine yeast, which can be purchased cheaply from many online retailers. Ideally, you’d also use wine grapes, although wine can be made from any type of fruit with a reasonable sugar content.
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Personal experience.