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Homemade alcohol (41 replies)

■ 🕑 37.
│  I got about ~4 liters out of my 18L 9% ABV Trix experiment.
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│  700g of smashed and boiled Trix cereal with 3kg of sugar.
│  Fermented for 1 week, allowed to clear a bit before boiling
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│  1st jar (1.5L) smells very fruity -- perhaps berries and citrus
│   ... but also very strong in alcohol
│  2nd jar (1.5L) is a bit more ambiguous.
│  3rd jar (~1L) is much more corny, but also weaker in alcohol.
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│  I will likely incorporate this with my ~10L of "stripped" tomato paste
│  wash to make some kind of gin. The corn and berry notes should add a
│  nice complexity to the juniper, coriander, et al.
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├─■ 🕑 38.
│   Sampling jar #2 of the Trix cereal wine (72% ABV), mixing with cola.
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│   The strongest flavors carrying through are corn with incidental
│   berry / lemon sweetness. But the heads and tails present hinder the
│   potential for tastiness. I feel like if it were to be distilled again,
│   aged hearts on oak would taste as a pretty tasty bourbon ..
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└─■ 🕑 39.
    Mixed some of jar #1 with milk -- wondered how milk w/ cereal liquor
    would be. I'm not sure if it was the "heads" or what but the cocktail
    was almost completely revolting and not something I would wish upon
    my friends or enemies. 2/10
     

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