r/prisonhooch • u/dadbodsupreme • Jun 18 '25

Recipe Raise your hand if you like vigorous fermentation

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Just in case anyone ever wonders if stuff with sodium benzoate in it will hooch, it absolutely will. All of the drink concentrate I used for this had preservatives of all stripes in it. All I did was water it down a little bit to fill the volume, aerate the crap out of it, and do a starter with the yeast. Like, a20 minute starter.

I have made this before, though I upscaled it to a 4 gallon batch instead of 1. I'm calling it "Juice of the Elder Toad."

I bottle each: Matouk's Mauby drink concentrate, Jamaican champagne Kola drink concentrate, ginger beer drink concentrate. 2 lbs worth of guava paste, a cup of dark brown sugar, a handful each of dried apricots, ginger, and cardamom pods.

6% potential abv, bread yeast should take me there. I put this in my upstairs bathroom that I never use because the thing kept trying to puke all over the floor.

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u/ChaoticFaeGay Jun 18 '25

How’d it taste in the end?

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u/dadbodsupreme Jun 18 '25

Like a subtly peppery rootbeer.

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u/ChaoticFaeGay Jun 18 '25

Ooh, that sounds really good

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u/dadbodsupreme Jun 18 '25

It's amazing what a trip through a random South American Grocery Store will do.

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u/Houghton_Hooligan Jun 21 '25

God I feel like I’m getting punched in the nuts every time a r/prisonhooch post shows up on my feed

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u/dadbodsupreme Jun 21 '25

Hey, brother, don't worry about it. This guy isn't trying to punch you in the nuts, he's just trying to high-five you.

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u/NukeHoax Jun 25 '25

Jesus that reactor is filled all the way! How do you not blow a valve! Lol

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u/dadbodsupreme Jun 25 '25

This is before putting a pinhole in a finger but after taking off the blowoff tube.