Apples to Alcohol

[kwg2005]

can you use rotted and bad apples for making ethanol fuel? since it won't matter how it tastes.

[DevonHomeBrew]

@kwg2005 So you can use rotten apples for cider if you have ever drunk french cider or devonshire cider brewed on a small scale will have rotted apples in it i always use rotted apples to give my cider a more sharp finish.

[arwinuit]

im just gonna use my g.e. juicer i bought at walmart.

[deadheaders86]

Remember, when brewing with wild fruit, wash everything. No harm in soaking bottle caps in alcohol or sanitizing solution, so you don't have bottle rockets from pent up infection gases.

[minator3]

how long did you let foment for?

[agello24]

nice video. ty for the tutorial.

[AplePaple00]

APPLE A DAY KEEPS THE DOCTOR AWAY!

[glennmunro01]

@AplePaple00 whats keeps the cops away?

[metamaggot]

what is the music at the beginning?

[doughmayne]

@metamaggot teenage wasteland

[studman0614]

eww why not just pick them off the trees

[gordonganey]

You should have distilled it and made applejack!

[Soldier957]

So that extra little bit of sugar in the end makes it carbonated?

[phantomfrk]

@Soldier957 Yes they didn't distil the final product so there is still active yeast so adding sugar will feed the yeast releasing co2 into the bottle but since it is sealed none of the co2 is released so the drink will become carbonated. Same as when you make soda

[twistedboy67]

DA WHO

[tankgirl21]

...so when do you add the sugar?

[MegaDuke1]

What happened to your face? Cider injuries?

[alchemic99]

more like apples to vinegar lol

[hugmeshootme]

will have to try this out one day. thanks for sharing.

[Southernpridedixie]

If you wanted it to have more than 10% alcohol how would you do that?

[Becharco]

@Southernpridedixie add more sugar

[TheAmazingSwan]

WE ARE!

[120mcclure]

i kno how to pick apples dude..

[120mcclure]

i kno how to pick apples dude.. lol but cool info

[Dillonfromforks]

@JimTheHermit

Use Oxy clean Free to clean out your fermenters but be sure to rinse the hell out of them after and use a food grade sanitizer after that such as star san or one step to kill anything of the wild yeast or bacteria that may remain and you should do fine

[faziljaved]

how many days are required?

[awill94571]

Where did you find the co2 release stopper?

[gogogodancer]

@awill94571 most home brewer stores will have them, if not ebay, and if not that, you take about a foot of aquarium tubing, punch a hole in a cap that fits over your jug, feed it through about an inch, and seal silicone(let dry), place the cap on jug so its airtight, make 1 and a half loop circle with tubing, and twist tie so the end part sticks a bit up in the air. home made, cheapo co2 stopper. You could also simply run the tube directly into a jar of H2O (lower than alcohol jug)

[seekerofAdventure]

here is how you make legal liquor from your cider. put the cider in a bowl then freeze it. the next day take the frozen cider and fluff it up with a fork to where it's slush. the idea here is that the water is frozen but the alcohol is not. put the slush in a salad spinner with some cheese cloth ot paper towels and spin it. all the alcohol will go into the bowl. get rid of the left over ice. and you have all the alcohol from your cider. there is no law that says you cannot freeze wine or cider

[Dillonfromforks]

@seekerofAdventure

when you do that you leave the methanol (the bad alcohol) in along with the ethanol (the good alcohol). You concentrate both of them. Mass quantities of methanol give you hangovers and will make you go blind. Thats why when you distill alcohol the methanol burns off at 143F and the Ethanol burns at 173F. You dump out everything that burns off before 173F. Thats why when you drink moonshine you dont get hangovers. I woke up last saturday after a long night and felt great

[bryce232323]

I love how it's the scenic countryside with a blaring highway in the background. Bahahaha

[DonJoPalma]

reallynice video, thanks!

Just one question, how long does it take to ferment completely?

[yahouaz]

Dam makes me thirsty

[mvolke1]

Nice job on the video. I saw on your label with the cider yeast that you did not use sugar. How much corn sugar did you add to the batch with the champagne yeast? What were the differences in flavor?

[tomkupai]

You should add all of the sugar into the whole batch (batch priming), instead of priming each bottle. You can easily add to much sugar to one bottle leading to excessive foaming or worse an explosion. Trust, its happened to me =[

[JMEBF]

Good work!!! Very interesting,.... :)

[amna0alhawaj]

Hey thank you for the video, it was very informative. I have a question about the fermentation period, how long did you leave it in the big container and how long did you leave it in the bottles?

[westcali84]

This vid rocks! I already have half of my supplies. U have any other method to press the apples? Will a juicer work? Thanks, 5 star!

[WHITEMASSMK11]

yea all you need is the juice it won't make a difference but you want it just liquid no lumpy stuff

[wiseGUY1288]

@westcali84 apple juice with no preservatives same thing

[westcali84]

Thats what I'm trying right now. Store bought apple juice. Gonna have to settle untill fall swings back around.

[dbuffalo]

wonderful.

[9winDuDown9]

That's funny at the end in the song " were all wasted" lol

[benhaberern]

could you let the apples sit till they pretty much rot and drink that juice

[jimmyleg5]

If you like rotten apple juice, sure.

[forgetTOexhale]

great video

[shmuckseason]

PROPS GUYS!!!

[zjconley]

Cool Vid but i was wondering how could i get it up to about 120 proof?

[mastablasta24]

not trying to be a dick though but why not get one of those juicers 80 bucks and ten times less work

[greencity127]

nice vid, but wtf happened to your face my dude.

[segarza]

Probably a drunken brawl....

[northshorerathunta]

would you get a comparable cider if you used store bought 100% pure apple juice?

[nath042]

i did this once. It came out pretty well, but what i did was buy different apple juices to give it a more unique flavour. The next time i do it which is in the coming months, im going to be using apples from my tree.

[UNiqEz]

LOL That corn starch looks like a white Brick Hommie!

[azzboy876]

how do you know how much alcohol is in the cider?

nice vid btw :)

[nath042]

I think... its measured by the difference in the hydrometer before and after the cider is brewed. So you take a reading at the start.. then one at the end and "start - end = alcahol percentage". but .. they may be the opposite way around, or it may be completely incorrect.

[adamsaunders333]

thanks man i trided your method and it was a hit

[rejwow]

normal hard bubbly cider is about 4-5%, I use some honey in the mix to bring it to 6 -7 %

I use champagne yeast.

[hikkabooo]

highest 7% alco and they should not put yeast in it there are already naturally yeast in it and sry for my spelling from dk

[sharanprasanth]

10% of alcohol thats crazy

[hessy11]

not really 96% thats crazy

[sharanprasanth]

thats 4% apple juice

[hessy11]

i thoght u wad saying 10% was like crazy strong to drink not that u were talking about the strenth of cider

[animebsd]

you need a small engien or somthing for that apple grinder

i sugjest a 1 hp hit and miss engine

:) good vid!

5 star!!!

[paintball227]

Didnt you let it settle out to get the yeast out of it. I make alot of wine and i would think the same thing applies here

[GaurdDuck]

I aggree with paintball227, you skipped steps man. Some n00b is gonna wach this, put sugar in with cloudy booze, without measureing and have a helluva mess when his stuff explodes. Not to mention it'll taste more like bread than apples. You gotta be carefull with priming sugar. I speak from experiance. I've been home vinting/brewing since 10th grade. I used to make dark rum, but now mostly beer and mead, and I'm gonna make Pumpkin wine this fall.

[SmittyHollaAtYoBoy]

ohh i guess i can be a noob then cauz i read online to make alcohol with yeast sugar and water jug thingy ummm i added i did a whole pack if yeast into a warm pot of water 1 cup then waited then while waiting i took a jug then added 13 cups of water and 3 1/2 cups of sugar then mix the "crap out of it added the yeasty water and put a ballon on it with 5 holes is this correct or will it blind me without distilling it or freezing it plz save me

[GaurdDuck]

Sugar mash like that doesn't make any methyl alcohol, but it don't taste good either. Grain and fruit alcohols produce it though, but it is soooo tiny an amount that it only matters if you distill it.

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[nath042]

you only use that method when hoping to distill after, im sure it would produce alcahol but it wont taste nice. As for the baloon idea, no idea where you are going there but a demijohn with a water air lock like in this video is better. To later distill the drink you would need alot of equipment to heat it up and remove the alcahol from the water, its after this process that it produces enough methanol to blind people. But if you get rid of the first and last ~500ml then it shouldnt be harmful.

[joeym15028]

10% damn thts crazy just from apples n tht other stuff

[radarbrew]

The champagne yeast should have made for a "dry" taste, but how did the cider yeast come out? I brew mostly beer, but never used cider yeast in the couple hard ciders I made.

[420ARYAN420]

FUCK YEAH, APPLES.

[robswift008]

you dont really need to add the yeast though as there is natural yeast in the air

[kimmarie801]

aren't there sapose to be hops in it?

[ChrysDives]

hops is for beer, not cider. to my knowledge.

[CondemnedPatriot]

@ChrysDives yeah apples PLUS hops sounds like PUKE

[job1181]

If you add hops you're going to have a very very bitter cider. Not to mention I'm not exactly sure what the the hops breaking down in cider would also produce. In beer making the hops are just in the mash and are discarded so you don't have to worry about them in the actual product.

[kimmarie801]

thanks job

[razgriz4977]

hmm, where can you get a stopper like that? That's pretty much the only thing I don't have to make this hard cider (except the fancy equipment, I'm sure I can improvise that part, hahah)

[robswift008]

any brewing supply shop or im sure they will sell them on the web.

[jackcarpentersax]

The cider they put in the bottles is not very carbonated. They add a little sugar to the smaller bottles to make some bubbles in the cider like champagne so it is not flat like wine. The gravity they talk about is specific gravity. The alcohol in the water changes the buoyancy of things floating in the cider. The buoyancy is also a measure of the alcohol content. There is a special aparatus that floats in the cider and how deep it sinks determines the buoyancy(which is a measure of the alc0hol)

[artheina]

id love to try this but i dont have any of that eqipment, im gunna put it in my favorites incase sumday i decide to rig sumthing up,thanks

[singful]

THIS SONG i have hurde it on tv and the raido fucking every where today. but cool vid i think i will make some apple cider wial waiting for my beer

[urafckintube]

cider is a proper drink!

never as complex as a good real ale, but a proper drink nonetheless

[eetgeok]

can you just use storebought apple cider instead of making your own?

[spanky598]

im not a big hard cider guy, bu i know u cant use most store bought. It has additaves that prevent spoilage, therefore killing your "good yeast" you add. My local brew shop actually advertises cider pressings, or you may find a local orchard.

[eetgeok]

ok thanks. and do you or anybody else on here know if this can make you go blind? because ive heard that if you do it wrong it will make the wrong kind of alcohol which can blind you. any truth to that?

[Phacias]

Home made - not purified spirits and other alohols can make you blind, because they contain all alcohols (methanol, ethanol, prophanol, buthanol, penthanol, hexanol, hepthanol and others) not only ethanol. Most of them are poisonous neuroactives (probably translation).

[MikeAK147]

not true

[MikeAK147]

No, it's a complete myth.

[SusanMclean99]

no there is preservatives to keep it from working.

[eetgeok]

nah i went to the store and they have some with no preservatives. you just have to find the organic type ones.

[Energi2DmaxX]

Correct, best would be some cider from a natural food store where they cold pasteurized the cider with UV light. sugar air lock yeast and BAM few weeks later you have Hard Apple Cider, also if you freezer is cold enough freeze the hard cider and make apple moonshine like 30% alcohol just scrape up the ice and throw it away then when no more ice forms you got some strong booze to get hammerd XD

[goredskins29]

where do you get one of thoes apple grinder thingies?

[6thdude]

top stuff, just pressed 6 gallon myself... going to be pissed in the new year!

[fizzy408]

dude were do you get that fuckin machine hahahaaa

[TrueYears]

Not hard,,. you can get the blenner and do it for 5 secs then just find a presser and press the jouice XD

[anarchyofnecros]

HAHAHHAHHAHAHAhahahahahaa awesome, I learned this from my teacher and this just gave me the missing details. I love biology class now :)

[starshock01]

lol i have like dozens of those tube plug things

[goredskins29]

where do you get thoes tube plug things?

[Elluen]

Niiiiiicceeee :)

[sdhjtge]

hmm gonna try this but i don´t get what do you mean by gravity in the discription?

[swordsaw]

omfg my last name is metz

[neatfreeek]

that was neat

[logotip1]

How long is the period between the time you put in the yeast and the time you begin to bottle it? Also can you drink right after you begin to bottle the cider? Thank you

[anonymous4849]

So how did it taste?

[AGENTORANGE007]

Great video and very informative!!

Where can I get those yeasts that you mentioned? Is there a site that sells kits that you would recommend?

[waxy1354]

Thanks for the Video. Can you use store bought apples and what do you think of the red star yeast? I have used it a couple of times and it didnt come out vey well some of my friends that also home brew said it was the red star yeast

[akuklis]

i still think its funny that you have a band-aid on you head. haha. i would like to help you make it next time!

[ismokegreentrees]

you should have showed every step with more detail

[HickorySticks]

What exactly do you mean by the gravity, like the higher up or what?

[wjm145]

Hey quincyoh, educational you say. I say your a dork.

[veloscoot]

What happened to your head? This brewing thing looks pretty dangerous if you ask me. Now can I acheive this same effect while drinking this and riding a cross bike....if so, I'd like to order 5 gallons please. Oh yeah....perhaps a little Journey could spice up this video!

[wagenz]

Steve Perry would be proud!

[wferst82]

seems like a long process to get blitzed! I like how you have managed to not help the sterotype that Penn Staters are all alcoholics. Thank you Kuklis for educating us.

P.S. what happened to your forehead?

[abk122]

I went over the handlebars of my bike. Luckily my face broke my fall.

[philipc1690]

u see when you are letting it ferment is it better to put it sumwere dark and cold or where ??? plz reply back cheers

[quincyoh]

Wow! That was not only fun to watch, but also educational.