How to make hooch?!
Answers: i got sugar, and i got welch's 100% white grape juice and it says from concentrate with no sugar added. i know i need yeast but i don't have any....how to i do this. i've always wanted to try it. any help would be appreciated.
This is a recipe for hooch. It's free in prison and it costs little in the free world. You'll hate it...guaranteed.
1
Gal. Grape Juice (Red or White)
3-1/2
Lbs. Cane Sugar
1
Gal. Water
1
Pkt. Wine Yeast (In a pinch, Bakers yeast will work)
This recipe yields 10 bottles (fifths) of wine like Grandma used to make for a staggering 50 cents a bottle. No pun intended.
Boil water and sugar. When cool, mix in a food grade plastic bucket with juice and yeast. Cover with a trash bag secured with a rubber band to exclude air and contaminants. When the bubbles cease, siphon, or gently pour into another bucket, leaving gunk (lees) behind. In about a week, most solids will have settled out and your wine can be bottled in glass bottles or even screw-top soft drink containers.
It's better to use wine yeast because Bakers yeast doesn't settle out well and if you shake the bottle, the wine will get cloudy. If this happens, just drink it with the lights out and no one will ever know.
This recipe, was designed for the complete novice and for those who just want to give wine making a try without having to go out and purchase a lot of paraphernalia to get started. Of course, if you just happen to own a fermentation lock and other materials, use them.
sliced white bread! i know that guys in prison take orange peels and slide white bread and let the sit in the sun for a few days till its all fermented. good luck, just don't get sick.
Be careful! I did this once and it didn't work AT ALL. Check the juice to make sure it doesn't have preservatives--if it does, it won't ferment right. It will spoil instead and be undrinkable. If it has no preservatives, you may have all you need right there.
(Incidentally, I do this all the time with apple juice to make cider. Apple juice doesn't usually have preservatives, but grape juice often does.)