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155 comments on Tuna, Toilet paper, and Timing
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also stocked up on alcohol and meds. recently learned how damn EASY it is to make honey wine.
just do one part honey to four parts water and let it SIT for a month. or something like that.
i'd rather do more exotic things, but..
like someone else here, have been planting native plants as well as the directly useful ones...
It's best to actually have some known yeast to kick the process off...get a more predictable result that way. I use Lalvin wine yeasts. I've made a few different hooches, the best being the apple-hooch. It's been a while so I can't recall exactly what quantities I used, but I think I put in two cans of apple juice concentrate and about 1/2 pound of sugar to fill a 1 gallon carboy, EC-111B yeast. Satanically sweet and the alcohol would sneak up on you and knock you on your ass. The real fun is hearing the "bloop......bloop..." from the fermentation lock and watching it bubble in the early days - good smell, too.
Ive made mead by this method. AMAZINGLY good! Also, native plants are incredibly usefull in themselves. Just get the book Native American Ethnobotany, by Daniel E. Moerman. (unless,that is, you dont live in the US.)