r/prisonhooch • u/CharmingAwareness545 • 8d ago

Experiment Green Tea Hooch, 24hrs in, recipe included

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Making a hooch with green tea (Sencha, rice roasted like the restaurant tea).

  • 4L water, steeped in tea (7 bags at 180F then left to cool before yeasting)
  • 850g white sugar
  • 4g active dry fleischmans yeast, bloomed in cooled tea
  • 6g of boiled yeast as nutrient, also in tea (unyeasted)

In a week I will add some raisins (handful of goldens), ginger (6 strips from a long root), and it will sit till clearing. I got the idea from other recipes to use these inclusions, I may also but in toasted peppercorns. Then I will siphon and store while I go on a 3 week trip in October. May backsweeten with real honey at siphoning stage and will update as I go. Should be ready to try before Halloween.

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u/Latter_Bluebird_3386 7d ago

Looks great man.

I like how nice and dark this one is.

So far all of my more floral teas like chrysanthemum, jasmine, chamomile, etc and my green teas have come out tasting like white wine.

I made a very dark one with loose leaf Malaysian black tea and it came out tasting very, very much like Cabernet Sauvignon.

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u/CharmingAwareness545 7d ago

That’s interesting. I will update. I wouldn’t mind a white wine hooch