StillSmart

Have just bought the air still kit and made my first lot, all ok, got quite excited.
I am more into natural way of making home brew, have made wine from grapes only, just like my grandad did in Italy, came out great. So I am now looking into making my own wash, started today, mint and apples from the garden, chopped up apples in a bin comes to about the 5l Mark, I have now filled this to the 10l Mark with boiling water.going to leave this to soak for about 4 days, than strain it, and add probably 1k of sugar and 2 teaspoons of wine yeast, will try another lot later with relying on the wild yeast on the apple, once fermented will strain again and put it through the still, no idea what's going to happen!!!!!!

be careful when fermenting juices and fruits. These contain pectin which ferments into methanol. Sugar washes contain virtually zero methanol so the disgards are mainly bad tastes.

enjoy your new toy

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Many thanks for your advice, could you suggest what I could do with it now, all I did was cut the apples, not peel them. I am about ready to add yeast and sugar, or do I just start again.
Any help would be great, thanks

Best advice I think would be to proceed as if making a wine, and then once it is fully cleared you can always distill it. If you're making wine you often want the peel for flavour and colour so it should be OK. I wouldn't distill anything cloudy though.

Thanks jimmy for your advice, but decided to make wine out of it. Have got 5 gallon of carrot wine on the go, could I perhaps distill some of it?

Yeah, so long as it isn't sweet you should be able to distill it I'd say - that's my plan with my wine experiments anyway! Carrot eh? Let us know how it works out, I have pumpkin on the go at the minute as I got given a free one at the farm shop and didn't want to waste it!

Drink too much carrot wine, and you'll be able to see double in the dark!

Capt-Cudellez wrote:Drink too much carrot wine, and you'll be able to see double in the dark!

It's the first time I've tried to make carrot wine, £1.40 for 10 kilo!!! From the local farm shop. Will be transferring it to demijohns tomorrow, hope my eye sight will improve!!!!!!

LOL, they have overripe pineapples in my local farm shop for 80p each, I keep looking at them and thinking about trying pineapple wine... my family is despairing, at the moment I am basically trying to turn anything that is not nailed down into booze