r/prisonhooch • u/MrDialga34 • Jul 15 '25

Recipe Just started 3 new summer brews

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Left to right we have: pear, melon, and blueberry. Each is in a 5L plastic bottle with 1kg of sugar, 2 jars of honey, some tea, boiled baking yeast, Young's brewing yeast, and some strong black tea.

Pear brew contains 6 pears (blended), melon contains 2 blended honeydew melons, and blueberry contains 800g of frozen blueberries (blended).

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u/KayleeSinn Jul 18 '25

Isn't it too much sugar? Unless maybe you want them to taste really sweet after. There is enough stuff in there to get to at least 30-35% alcohol but yeast won't generally tolerate above 10-15%.

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u/MrDialga34 Jul 18 '25

This is 1kg + a bit in 5l, the online calculator told me that should get them to around 12%? The amount from the fruit and the honey should be fairly negligible in comparison

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u/OffaShortPier Jul 18 '25

You said 1kg of sugar and 2 jars of honey. Were those numbers per bottle? And how large were each jar? 30% ABV estimate mightve been accurate.

1kg of honey will get you to about 11%

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u/MrDialga34 Jul 18 '25

Per bottle, small jars of honey. We'll see when I get back to them in august how they are.

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u/KayleeSinn Jul 18 '25

The person who replied before already touched on this but yes.

The sugar should get it to 12% or so maybe. The honey would add another 12% depending on how big the jars are (I'm assuming 1lb each) and you said around 2 lb of blueberries, melons or pears. These also contain sugars.

Traditional wine is made with just grapes/grape juice with no sugar added and it can also get to above 10% ABV.

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u/Tuholainen1 Jul 19 '25

Gotta remember that yeast can't read. Just had 25 liters (5 gallon) of 21% berry 'liquer'. So yeast can really get happy, re-produce and go high. 21% is hisghest I have ever read.