Easy Homebrew for When the SHTF or During Hard Times

If your still worried about getting alcoholic drinks things are not that bad yet. When things get really bad all you will concern yourself with is how much food you can grow.

I don't think even one of your claims as to uses in 'hard times' is accurate...just sayin'


This sounds like one evolutionary step above the paint huffers...but if we're all gonna die any way...

Where do you get Malt Syrup from in SHTF scenario?

I don't think even one of your claims as to uses in 'hard times' is accurate...just sayin'


This sounds like one evolutionary step above the paint huffers...but if we're all gonna die any way...

Why argue about who's shooting who.

None of us can accurately predict what the future will bring. However, it's safe to say that those who are informed will have a better life than those who are not.

Only a retard would assume that a person with *knowledge* of home-brewing would immediately become falling-down-drunk. Said retard would likely meet his end quickly if he assumed that his home-brewing neighbors didn't have .50s, too.

Thanks OP.

Don't get me wrong, there are FAR better tasting recipes out there.

This recipe is the one my dad taught me and his dad taught him. They used to make it back on the farm when my dad was a boy.

It's simple to make and is composed of easily-obtainable, easily-storeable ingredients. In a POST-SHTF situation, you and your neighbors would be glad to have it.

Like I said, this isn't the best tasting brew and it won't impress the connoisseurs out there. It tastes something like Old Milwaukee.

Materials:

5 gal bucket
Towel
String

Ingredients:

1 can of malt syrup
1 5 lb bag of sugar
3 packets of yeast
5 gallons of warm water

Combine all ingredients into the 5 gal bucket and stir well. Try to get as much of the sugar and malt to dissolve as possible.

Cover the bucket with the towel and wrap a string around it to hold it on. This keeps the bugs out.

Put the bucket in a warm place. Right in your house is fine. You want it to stay about room temperature.

Leave it alone for 2 weeks.

After 2 weeks, take the towel off and you will see that the brew is foamy and smells like beer/bread. Stir it well and try to get everything that didn't dissolve before to dissolve this time. Cover it back up with the towel.

Leave it alone for 2 weeks.

After these two weeks, the brew is technically ready to drink but you'll probably want to further refine it. Here's how:

Filter the brew through the finest cloth you have. It will still be cloudy. That's fine.

Put the brew in sealed airtight containers (Mason jars are best). Leave for another week or two. This carbonates the brew and clears it up to some extent. Don't bother the containers of beer during this time. You'll see that whatever yeast remains will settle to the bottom in a thin white layer and the rest will be golden and clear.

After you've let your containers carbonate and settle, then they're ready to enjoy.

When you get to the bottom of the jar, just be careful not to stir up the thin white layer. But even if you do, it's fine.

A little bit of tweaking in your future batches will eliminate the sediment.

***ETA***

To clear up a little confusion:

1. You obviously can't add exactly 5 gal of water to the bucket. Just add your other ingredients first and then add warm water up to about an inch or two from the top (to allow some room for foaming). Then cover with the towel and tie it off.

2. Homebrew is not hard liquor. It's beer (or technically "malt liquor" in this case). It has about 6% alcohol give or take. I am judging that by my countless hours of drinking everything from light beers (4.5%) to malt liquors (6%) to high-gravity lagers (8-8.5%). So I haven't tested it scientifically.

3. This recipe calls for plain old bread yeast (like Fleishman's or similar). You don't need brewer's yeast. You might have a better product with brewer's yeast though. I don't know.

4. For the asswipes claiming that homebrew has no use in a "hard times" situation, consider the following:

Beer is nutritious and has lots of calories.

It gives you something clean to drink.

It gives you morale after working your fingers to the bone all day.

It helps relieve pain.

It helps you bond with your neighbors.

It's a good item to trade or use as a gift.

It helps promote human reproduction.

IT'S NOT ABOUT GETTING "DRUNK". But it can be nice to have that option when it's time to celebrate.

No problem. I appreciate your comments.

The people who are protesting homebrewing based on thinking it means getting drunk all the time just don't get it.

If you leave a beer out for a cpl days, all the alcohol evaporates out of it.

Wouldnt an uncovered method like this see most if not all of the alcohol evaporate out of it?

It's amazing to me the number of keyboard warriors who have not a clue.
If TSHTF the world will not be a safe place for anyone.
What makes them think they will be able to prey on the innocent, indefinitely?
Sooner or later, they will run into the wrong person, and that will be that.

I've been shot at before while inadvertently straying onto
private property while hunting.
I've had a shotgun stuck in my face when I walked into in a convenience store robbery.
I've been shot by a stupid hunter who thought I looked like a turkey.
Been sprayed with birdshot by dove hunters.

I'm still here.

it could be used as barter or trade

If you leave a beer out for a cpl days, all the alcohol evaporates out of it.

Wouldnt an uncovered method like this see most if not all of the alcohol evaporate out of it?

No. The alcohol is mixed with the water in a homogeneous mixture and therefore the actual surface area of the alcohol is greatly reduced.

It's just like letting mash ferment for moonshine. It doesn't have to be sealed.

Another teetotaler!!

hey he stated himself, this stuff tastes like shit...leads to the conclusion one is drinking solely for the buzz...not saying there's anything wrong with that, just say it how it is...you people with the need to dress shit up...:rollseyes:

takes a longer time to ferment too, don't it?

I just called my uncle who is makes moonshine, cider, and beer in between building nascars and hunting lions...

It doesnt matter if its a homogenous solution. The alcohol evaporates out of a water solution much much faster than the water evaporates.

With an airlock, you would have a higher % of alcohol. An airlock will keep the air above the liquid saturated with alcohol vapor, which will drastically reduce alcohol evaporation at room temp.

A better small setup would be to use two-liter bottles or something similar with a small top, and put a ballon and rubber band over it with a pin prick hole in the rubber band.

I've been shot by a stupid hunter who thought I looked like a turkey.

A better small setup would be to use two-liter bottles or something similar with a small top, and put a ballon and rubber band over it with a pin prick hole in the rubber band.

I'm sure what you're saying is true but I've never had a problem with it. The brew comes out around 6% or a little higher. That's plenty, IMHO.

I've been home brewing beer for 20 years, its a great way to spend a few hours in the kitchen drinking beer :)

The recipe is a solid basic beer recipe.

If you want to up your game, skip the sugar and double the malt, and get a good brewers yeast.

Check out this form:
[link to www.homebrewtalk.com]

The beginners section is great, people are generally friendly to any question.

For brewing supplies I use:
[link to www.austinhomebrew.com]

There are many online homebrew supply shops - this one has flat rate shipping (important for those 50 pound bags of grain), and competitive prices.

I've been home brewing beer for 20 years, its a great way to spend a few hours in the kitchen drinking beer :)

The recipe is a solid basic beer recipe.

If you want to up your game, skip the sugar and double the malt, and get a good brewers yeast.

Check out this form:
[link to www.homebrewtalk.com]

The beginners section is great, people are generally friendly to any question.

For brewing supplies I use:
[link to www.austinhomebrew.com]

There are many online homebrew supply shops - this one has flat rate shipping (important for those 50 pound bags of grain), and competitive prices.

Maybe you can help answer an earlier question if you don't mind. Earlier a guy asked why the alcohol doesn't evaporate out while the beer is fermenting in the bucket. I'm sure some does evaporate out but the resulting brew is still about 6% after two weeks.

Can you answer that?