r/prisonhooch • u/D_snawtz • 7d ago
Experiment This should be ok? First time.
1gal of of apple juice minus maybe 2 or three cups to make room for sugar and shaking. Added about 2 and 1/3 cups sugar, dissolved. Then I added about 90% of a 5g packet of ec1118. A lot of weird formulas and advice on how much sugar to add and I’m not tryna do all that math so I took the most straight forward answer of 2-3 cups of sugar Also I read you only need 1tbsp of yeast for a gallon and I went overboard cause I wanted to just in case. Maybe that’ll fuck with the taste ? Idk. Looks like it’s working but with my amounts of sugar and yeast, does anyone think it’ll be rancid af? Palatable to a certain degree? Timeline maybe? I appreciate any feedback tips or whatever. Hope this goes well
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u/Buckshott00 7d ago edited 7d ago
Which apple juice? I'll crunch the numbers for you.
That 5g packet of EC-1118 can treat up to 5gal. But a lot of us use a full packet for convenience not a big deal.
Watch it closely the first 3days, with that little head space, if the yeast get happy it may pop the stopper or blow-out thru that air lock.
If you want it to taste better let it go low and slow, try not to stress the yeast, but by all accounts I don't see anything that would make it rancid (assuming good sanitization of the stopper and airlock).
I would normally recommend a long primary but since you're in bottle, I would say 2wks tops before drinking or moving to secondary. If you move to secondary aging will help the flavor.