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Hey all. New question again. We just started harvesting our 3 apple trees and are getting a bumper crop! We've been making juice, preserves, sauce and canning like crazy. Just wondering, with all the leftover mush from the juicing and sauce making, is this stuff any good for making hooch? I would think with the sugar content of apples, it would make some powerful stuff! Any recommendations on how to go about this?
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I asume you have a press to get the juice with or do you use steam juicing???
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"Oh man....freeze about 15 lbs of those apples and - or the pulp so when you find all the info you need to make a cider you can thaw and get to fermenting. There are some recipes floating around that you can sub apples for. Look in the recipe forum.
You can make apple jucie and add white likker or you can add some sugar and neutrients and such and ferment the juice and distill that. What do you want to do???"
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I've got so much pulp I was thinking of making it into shine. The pulp is mostly from crab apples we made into juice. Gonna give it a shot and see what happens.
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Ok, got my first apple mash set up. 7 pounds apple pulp, 8 pounds sugar, and 2 packets of bread yeast (it's all I had available). I'll stir it every day for 7 days and see what happens. The only still I have is my home built pot still. 1/2" column and an old trash can with a worm for a condensor. It has worked great so far. Gotten really good results so far. I'll post back soon!
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So is that the difference in the bread yeast, how long it is active? It's the one question I've been meaning to ask, and haven't gotten to yet. When I did my first corn mash a few weeks ago, the bread yeast I used kept those 5 gallons of mash bubbling for 6 or 7 days.
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Ok, I stirred it today (first time). I'll leave it now for 7 days and see what happens. At worst I'm out $5 worth of yeast and sugar. Apples were free! LOL!
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curtsat, you did'nt hurt it by rouseing it a little. I think you used bakers yeast so 5-7 days to ferment and then watch for it to settle in a few more days and run it. If it looks settled then run it sooner.
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That's what the plan is Heeler, I'll keep yall posted.
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Well day 4. Checked on the apple juice and it's still bubbling and farting out the airlock. Smells very much like beer though! Is that normal? Let her go for a couple more days I guess!
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"yes thats very normal, what your making IS beer actually. Its a apple beer that if fermented and then cooled enough to stop souring or rotting, you could drink it as is I'm sure. But of course here we like to cook everything for the concentrated goodies, you know...hooch-likker-white dawg-bust head....
in my opinion 4 days is still a little early - keep an eye on it, remember no hurry let it finish and settle."
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Well if my nose is any indication, it's gonna be powerful stuff! Still bubbling away!
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Just wondering how this one turned out?
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" Originally Posted by: curtsat15  Ok, got my first apple mash set up. 7 pounds apple pulp, 8 pounds sugar, and 2 packets of bread yeast (it's all I had available). I'll stir it every day for 7 days and see what happens. The only still I have is my home built pot still. 1/2"" column and an old trash can with a worm for a condensor. It has worked great so far. Gotten really good results so far. I'll post back soon! Hope thats not a galvanized trash can your useing."
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Nope, plastic trash can, and it only holds the cooling water for the worm. So far so good though, first 3 gallons were nice and smooth with quite a kick. Not as powerful as I thought it would be though. Gonna run off the last 2 gallons in the morning. I've let it sit now an extra week and smells great. May have a little more punch to it too.
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Alright ran off the last 2 gallons of mash. Got about 3 pints consumable hooch. Again almost nothing for heads or tails. Glad I waited though, good flavor and lots of oomph. Gonna set up another mash tomorrow morning with a couple minor changes. Gonna try about 5 pounds of apples mashed up good and about same sugar and a bit more water. I'll keep ya posted!
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