SHTF Brewing thread. Any recipes for simple alcoholic beverages made from scratch from simple ingredients welcome.

Heather Ale (Viking Ale)

My husband has tried making this recipe we found a few times and it has come out pretty good. We make our own wine and beer at home, however most of it is from kits. We are also looking at ways of making it from "scratch".

It does sound complicated at first, but if you are familiar with the process of making beer or wine it may not seem to daunting.

TRADITIONAL RECIPE FOR HEATHER WINE/ALE
1 ½Ibs. Heather Tips (in full bloom)
1 Gallon water
3-4 lbs. Sugar (according to sweetness desired)
2 Lemons
2 Oranges
1 teasp. dried yeast
1 teasp. yeast nutrient.

Cover heather with the water and boil for one hour. Strain off liquid and measure. Restore to one gallon, and add sugar. Stir until completely dissolved. When the temperature drops to 70F, add yeast and nutrient. Leave for 14 days. Then strain into fermentation jar, and when fermentation ceases, strain and bottle. Keep for at least six months!

Heather Ale has a light taste but is really yummy! I first tried it at a WINE AND CHEESE SHOW haha. GOod Stuff. You can buy it at a liquor store I believe.. in the Specialty Beer sections.

MMM DickNCider.. Good stuff

2 cans of frozen concentrate 100% grape juice
2 cups of sugar
1 packet of regular bread yeast

mix it up with water in a sanitized gallon sized plastic milk jug and let it sit for a few weeks.

It's a swell wine in that it has alcohol and is cheap.

1. sqeeze out apples
2. wait

I'm actually drinking a pear cider right now coincedentally.
I'm going to have to plant some apple trees.
Would green "Granny Smith" apples be the best idea?

The sweeter the apple the more sugar for fermentation. If you want a dry sour hard cider, granny smith would suffice. I prefer sweet. I use whatever is available and mix. My fist batch was about 3/4 Red Delicious and 1/4 Johnathan. Very sweet and made very hard cider.

"Homebrew"

a recipe given to me by my father and made by me and my brothers many times.

What you need:

- a 5 lb bag of sugar

- a can of malt syrup (big can)

- 5 packs of yeast (any will do)

- a 5 gal bucket

- a cheesecloth (or an old towel)

What you do:

Take your 5 gal bucket and add the sugar, malt syrup and yeast. Fill 3/4 full with water. Stir well. Tie cheesecloth on top of bucket and put the bucket somewhere dark and room temperature. In two weeks, take off the cheesecloth and have a look. Should be foamy and smell like beer. Filter through fine cheesecloth in order to get rid of remaining yeast particles. Refrigerate in sealed containers. Should taste a bit like Old Milwaukee. Gets you drunk as shit.

Note - You'll probably never get out all the yeast particles so let the brew separate and then siphon off the clear, golden top portion.

So when the SHTF, we can open up a bunch of "GLP PUB & GRUBS" and the masses will come and barter everything they have with our fine drink!

Thanks for that, I actually have a red delicious tree, I just thought they would be too sweet. Now I just have to fight the parrots for the apples!

We'll just need to recruit some bouncers from hell! Bribery with product should do nicely.

Actually, I know this is a bit off topic, but I couldn't help and think about it, since we are talking booze..

Does anyone know how to make their own cheese? This is my next home project and the idea of some good cheese with some home made wine, beer, ale, cider is making my mouth water!

If you want to go really cheap..

4 cups sugar
1 packet Yeast (any)

Put it in a clean gallon milk jug, fill with water, shake it up and then either leave the lid unscrewed just enough for it to breathe or poke some holes in a balloon and put it over the seal. Let it sit 3-4 weeks.

This makes decent super cheap sugar wine, ..tastes great with Kool-Aid and does the trick.

Doomsday alcohol FTW!

Visions of all those crazy Mad Max movies and other DOOMS Day movies pop into mind now lol.

Have you seen Tiny Greens sustainable living and food preserving thread?
I'll find a link for you....

I don't believe I have. I was looking through a thread that talked about canning and perserves, but not that one!

[link to www.irishflutes.net]

This will blow the head off you ;)

Thread: >>>>Sustainable Living PLUS Canning and Dehydrating Food<<<<

Here you go, I'm pretty sure cheese making has been discussed there. If not the girls that are regulars there will certainly know all about it, just ask. They're all among the nicest people on glp.

Sorry mate! I almost missed that one, I'm going to bed now, but I might just download real player to listen to that!
There's no school like the old school....

1 open bottle of methylated spirit

2 imbibe

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lol , too right .