Apple pear raisin Split Brandy

[MtnMoonshiner]

This is something I've been working on for a bit, but is certainly still in it's infancy. I think I've got something here that works, but I'm currently away from the ol' still on a business trip. I tried a bit of the unaged product as it came out, and thought it was pretty good. The rest is aging in a glass jug with a couple slices of pear and apple. If anyone wants, give it a go and see what you think. Please give me some sustainments , and/or improvements...or let me know if you think it's shit and not to waste my time! :-D

Ingredients
-7cups ground malt corn
-20cups cracked yellow corn
-10 Fuji Apples
-10 Red Delicious apples
-10 Bosc pears
-1 1/2 cups chopped raisins
-10lbs white granulated sugar
-3lbs brown sugar
-2 packets of yeast
-10 gal water to make

Ensure all fruit is ripe. Peel, core, and slice all fruit. Bring water to a boil, add cracked corn, fruit, and sugar. Stir continuously with wooden dowel until fruit and corn begin to soften and take on water. Turn heat off, and let the mash cool for about two hours, then stir in the malt completely. Place in fermenter, and allow to cool to approx. 35c(95F), stir in yeast. Allow to ferment for approximately 3 weeks, depending on the temperature and local conditions of course. When ready, filter wash through cloth, strip and distill.

I tried to use apples that I thought the flavor complemented each other, and I picked bosc pears because they have a slightly spicy and aromatic flavor and scent. You might not be able to get these types of apples and pear where you're at though. I think it'd be alright if you picked whatever apples and pears you wanted though.

[BackyardBrewer]

Mate I'm adding that to my list of recipes for sure. Got a pear tree in the yard and can lay my hands on apples for pretty cheap.

[MtnMoonshiner]

Anyone tried it yet?

[Cane Toad]

Mate,I totally fucking missed the first post :angry-banghead: :angry-banghead: just added a few things to the cooks shopping list for tomorrow :D :D with a pretty please beside the carton of beer :laughing-rolling:
I'll be putting this down this weekend :handgestures-thumbupleft: :handgestures-thumbupleft: I think Mac was gunna do it too,but he's plum out of fermenters ATM :laughing-rolling: :laughing-rolling:

[MtnMoonshiner]

Please let me know how it works out for you! As I said, it's a new recipe I'm working on, and any improvements and/or sustainments you can give me would be greatly appreciated! :handgestures-thumbupleft:

with a pretty please beside the carton of beer :laughing-rolling:

More importantly, did you get the beer? :laughing-rolling:

[MacStill]

funny thing is he calls her the cook, but whenever you talk to him he's the one cooking :laughing-rolling:

:violence-stickwhack:

[MtnMoonshiner]

:laughing-rolling: As is the case with so many "cooks" ahahahah

[emptyglass]

I'm starting to think you can make hooch from anything, so long as you got a wooden stick to stir it with :laughing-rolling:

[MtnMoonshiner]

I'm starting to think you can make hooch from anything, so long as you got a wooden stick to stir it with :laughing-rolling:

It's a PFM(pure fucking magic) stick!

I use a wooden stick because they're cheap, and they don't scrape the mash tun.


Want my recipe for prison hooch? All you need is some honey glazed doughnuts and filtered apple juice! :laughing-rolling:

[Sam.]

I'm starting to think you can make hooch from anything, so long as you got a wooden stick to stir it with :laughing-rolling:

Thats how the vikings did it ;-)

[Sam.]

I'm starting to think you can make hooch from anything, so long as you got a wooden stick to stir it with :laughing-rolling:

It's a PFM(pure fucking magic) stick!

I use a wooden stick because they're cheap, and they don't scrape the mash tun.


Want my recipe for prison hooch? All you need is some honey glazed doughnuts and filtered apple juice! :laughing-rolling:

Yes! Do please elaborate, is it better than pruno? :laughing-rolling:

[emptyglass]

I'm starting to think you can make hooch from anything, so long as you got a wooden stick to stir it with :laughing-rolling:

It's a PFM(pure fucking magic) stick!

I use a wooden stick because they're cheap, and they don't scrape the mash tun.


Want my recipe for prison hooch? All you need is some honey glazed doughnuts and filtered apple juice! :laughing-rolling:

Yes! Do please elaborate, is it better than pruno? :laughing-rolling:

There is a particular guy around here who calls bourbon prison juice (you know who you are!) :laughing-rolling: . Poor bugger drinks scotch :scared-eek:

I might not make it (unless inprisoned) but I'd like to hear the story about the doughnut and the apple juice.

[MacStill]

Wonder what the real story is about him being extradited back to SA :scared-eek:

[Cane Toad]

Ok,putting a batch of this down tonight :handgestures-thumbupleft: :handgestures-thumbupleft: smells good enough to eat,looks kinda like apple sauce :handgestures-thumbupleft: Just waiting for it to cool to about 60' so I can chuck in the malt,btw,for any of you Townsville blokes,if you want malted grains or anything to do with our little hobby,Steven from Homebrewers Warehouse is very helpful :handgestures-thumbupleft: :handgestures-thumbupleft:
Anyway,true to form,I looked at the recipe and then winged it from there, 1 carton of apples,9 pears (the boy ate the other 3,corn and malted,and 10kg sugar,5 of raw and 5 of white
So all I gotta do now is dump it into the fermenter and add water and yeast,which is where I would usually come unstuck as I don t own a hydrometer,until yesty :handgestures-thumbupleft: So once the sauce is in the fermenter,I just add water till it reads 1.080 or 1.090 and then throw in some yeast :handgestures-thumbupleft: :handgestures-thumbupleft: Fuck this is easy :laughing-rolling: :laughing-rolling:

I even lashed out and bought a MFS :handgestures-thumbupleft:

[MtnMoonshiner]

Yep, that looks about right! Magic stick and all!


Just for the laugh...one large Gatorade bottle 3/4 full of flat apple juice, two honey buns, and a pinch of yeast...wait patiently. Drink at your own peril! BAAAhahaha

[MtnMoonshiner]

The story behind it is, that I had a friend get locked up for a few years for our little hobby. He made a killing (not literally) off this hooch. I haven't had the guts to make and try it, but he said it has a taste akin to turpentine haha

[Cane Toad]

Real vigorous ferment,this one :laughing-rolling: smells pretty damn good :handgestures-thumbupleft:
Went and bought a brand new MFS,and a hickory one at that :laughing-rolling: :laughing-rolling:

[BackyardBrewer]

Real vigorous ferment,this one :laughing-rolling: smells pretty damn good :handgestures-thumbupleft:
Went and bought a brand new MFS,and a hickory one at that :laughing-rolling: :laughing-rolling:

What yeast did you use? Planning one of these when one of my 9 fermenters gets freed up!

[Cane Toad]

Hey BYB,I used a specialty house yeast :handgestures-thumbupleft: :handgestures-thumbupleft: the last batch of UJ I did,I threw some of the yeast cake in a coke bottle and put it in the fridge,it was early to mid 20's generation,and thought "why not try and see of it will kick off?"
To my surprise it did,so in it went :handgestures-thumbupleft: :handgestures-thumbupleft:
Just checked this arvo and looks like its finished,so I'll wait till Thursday arvo,give it a good stir to degas,and run it Saturday or Sunday,I can tell already that this stuff is gunna be good :handgestures-thumbupleft:
Now all I gotta do is either find a cheap supplier of apples here in NQ,or find somewhere that sells bulk apple juice :think: :think:
If anyone in SE QLD knows anyone around Stanthorpe or where ever it is they grow apples,let me know please,I can organise the transport no worries :laughing-rolling: :laughing-rolling: ;-)

[Cane Toad]

And a great many thanks to MtnMoonshiner for sharing his secrets :handgestures-thumbupleft: :handgestures-thumbupleft: