Stumbled on this recepie ones when I left a bottle of lemonade standing for a few days. It was raspberry and organic without preservatives or artificial sweeteners. It turned out as a fizzy, slithgly alcoholic and delightful drink.
Note that the end product will contain a slight amount of alcohol.
2,5 teaspoons of Dishwasher detergent. The cheap stuff, avoid ultrashine and whatnot.
Measuring cups for teaspoons, liters and halfliters.
Clean out the bottles by pouring half a teaspoon of dishwasher detergent into every bottle, filling them with hot water, put the cap on and shake. Put the bottles aside for now.
Put the sugar (5 teaspoons) into a one liter beaker, add the packet of dry yeast and fill up with lukewarm water to get one liter of culture going. Stir it a bit.
Step 4: Rinse Out the Bottles.
Empty the bottles and rinse them twice or thrice. Make sure you get ALL that nasty chemicals out.
In a measuring cup measure up the amount of juice for every bottle and pour it in the bottle.
I had half a liter of strawberry and another half of black currant to be mixed 1+5. So I put one deiliter of each in every bottle.
Do the same with the yeast culture. Measure out the amount you need and pour it in the bottles.
Now then .. There's enough juice in every bottle for one liter of drink. With the yeast there's 4 dl in every bottle and to get a liter we add 6 dl of lukewarm water.
Step 8: Shake It Up ..
Next you shake the bottle. Not much even turning it upside down once or twice is good enough.
Step 9: Now We Wait ..
When it seems clear just put it in the fridge over night or until its as clear as it should be.
Serve chilled and taste before you give it to your friends.
I just set this batch for a party next saturday so I'll be back with pictures of the finished product later.
Okay .. so these have been brewing for a few days now and they nearly exploded.
1.After shaking twist the cap off and just screw it back on gently, not hard. It needs to let off some gas.
I've decided to unpublish this instructable.
I've never really been happy with it myself. Alcoholproduction can be done much better and this recepie gets a bit too trial and error.
I'm much more proud of my most recent instructable featuring a Reusable_Dustbag_for_Vacuumcleaner reusable dustbag for vacuum cleaners.
How much is a "slight amount of alcohol"?
Does that mean that eating bread with sugar on top and drinking a glass of water at the same time is alcoholic?
It's yeast consuming sugar and excreting CO2.
That to but I'm pretty certain there's alcohol in it as well .. but you could very well be right.
That's not a slight amount of alcohol.
Slight would be not enough to get you drunk but probably there is some. My guess would be no higher than 3,5% volume. This based on previous beermaking where about three times the amount produces something that get's you drunk ie at least 4,5% volume.
3.5% is enough to get most people drunk - that's the strength of many lagers in the UK (proper beers are stronger, though).
I disagree. An anorectic 14yo who's never drunk before perhaps but hardly an adult?
... especially the beer from QuÃ©bec like La Maudite (The Damned) and Le Fin du Monde (The End of the World). Most beers in Canada are around 5%.
For our colonial readers, "1dl" = "1decilitre" = "100ml" = "3.4 fl oz"