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From the picture, this tops my list, flaming hot Cheetos… after mentioning it yesterday, my enzyme came in later than expected but I decided to send it anyways. It’s so greasy it’s probably turned me off Cheetos forever. However, science must ensue. Here we have 15 pounds of flamin hot Cheetos mashed with enzymes for an hour and 8 pounds of sugar. Honestly, after tasting the mash, the heat doesn’t come through, and frankly it mainly tastes/smells like a corn mash. Personally I’ll be surprised if I can tell the difference between this and a white whiskey made from straight corn. So, what’s the dumbest thing you’ve done?

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

Coco powder sugar and the starch from rinsing some rice... dumb.

I currently have a 4 month BBQ sauce that is in part a fermented stale baguette, but also a ton of other wild ferments, stocks and stuff that have gone through many reductions. So far, the only thing I've fermented and drank was some lemons with garlic and ginger with a good bit of honey. That came out super sour like candy in a raw Sour Patch Kids candy but more clean and natural kinda flavor. Most of that still went into sauces. Almost everything I make goes into sauces because fruits turned savory juices, mixed with stock, and reduced make far better flavors than anything that can be bought in a store and were optimised for cheap mass production.

I'm really curious what anyone might be growing at small scales, like on a patio for brewing. Maybe even just bittering agents too?

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I made a few jugs of apple wine by pitching gallons of apple cider in the end table under my TV, (plastic) bottle conditioning and forgetting about them for a while.

Huge alcohol content, decent taste, nightmarish poops.

You win.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Amazing! Maybe you can rim the glass with crushed hot cheeto too

this reminds me of r/prisonhooch which I miss dearly.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 weeks ago (22 children)

Be the change you want to see in the world my friend. Here’s the list of what’s on my radar for distilling next lol. Milk wine sounds whacky but I made it before (called blaand) and it’s surprisingly just tastes like white wine.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 weeks ago

I assumed this was V8. Well... nothing to report here.

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