#just put up a ferment 👍

[magrittr]

Crazy to me that people have hot sauce recipes. The correct method to do is to throw in random peppers from your garden… play it by ear mad scientist style. Yum.

[clatterbane]

Redneck Brewing #3: Sour Cherry Apple Concoction

Another batch that I went ahead and set up later than I had meant to last night. (So, no posting then.)

This time using cheap apple juice concentrate and some pretty delicious Slovenian tart cherry drink concentrate syrup that Mr. C had open in the fridge--consisting of basically just cherry juice, way more sugar than I need to drink as-is except to treat hypoglycemia, and a little citric acid.

I also decided to throw in a little bottled lemon juice for extra flavor, because why not. The "sour" cherry stuff is just made out of the stronger-flavored pie cherries, with more than enough sugar to take the mixture to a point where I thought it could use a little more tartness for balance. We actually have some fresh lemons, but I couldn't find the juicer, and just hand squeezing lemons/limes basically gives my hands a chemical peel. 🙄 DO NOT NEED when they're already this dry.

Not shown: more spooky powders! In the form of pectic enzyme (to help it hopefully turn out clear), yeast nutrient, and the same cider/champagne yeast because, again, why not. It was open.

Went with a little bigger batch in a 2L bottle this time, aiming to fill two regular 750ml wine bottles after it's finished. (Or one of the 1.5L bottles like the previous one is in, I guess.)

As I left it before going to bed.

After I got back up, I realized that I had indeed done a little oopsie by putting in the fridge-temperature syrup and not bothering to make up the temperature with warmer water. So yeah, the yeast still had not shown any signs of activity.

Even after sticking the bottle in a warmer place for a few hours, it was still not really wanting to wake up. So, my impatient ass sprinkled in another smaller dose of yeast. That did help it take off pretty quickly. 👍 May well have taken off on its own with more time, but the little extra really shouldn't hurt anything.

It's now bubbling away happily enough, and I guess I will know not to repeat that mistake.

The actual recipe for this experiment, btw, with screenshots from last night before I edited to show the second yeasting:

In retrospect, I may have also slightly overdone the cherry. I misremembered how much the bottle said to dilute it with water for just a juicy drink. (1:10 not 1:5 like a lot of others!) But, I guess it should have plenty of flavor. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Guessing the color will possibly get way less attractive as it ferments, but we'll see. Mostly just hoping to get something pleasant enough tasting, though it does look pretty going in. We'll see soon enough!

[foodreceipe]

Mix Olive Oil, Lemon & Honey & Leave it One Night & You won't Dispense with it The rest of Your Life

Extra virgin olive oil, lemon juice, and honey are three good natural ingredients that when mixed produce a healthy mixture. This mixture will change your life for the better with these many benefits, but on the condition that it is prepared and taken as we will mention in this video. Olive oil is one of the oldest and best oils known to man, and lemon is one of the most popular citrus fruits known in every home. Honey is a natural source of glucose and is known for its antimicrobial efficacy and antiseptic properties. We recommend choosing high-quality products: extra virgin olive oil, you can bring it from a reliable mill or any source you trust, lemons must be fresh and free from organic farming, and also honey must be from a reliable source.

Take 1 Tablespoon 30 minutes before breakfast.

I use this mixture for flu and chest issues, even more so during Covid. I have never added water to it and it works like magic.

Begin at 6:02 for instructions

100 ml warm water Juice of two lemons

4 TB Olive oil (extra virgin)

2TB Pure Honey

Let sit overnight.

Listen to the entire presentation when time permits. Good information.

keep the temp of the water below 39 degrees c or 102 f. because any higher temps then that and you lose all the antibiotic property's of the honey. but the mixture is not olive oil lemon and honey, as claimed its all that plus water. best make sure the water is the best you can get because why would you make a mix with good quality oil and honey and then pollute it with tap water and chlorine.  also another thing when you add water to honey it starts fermenting.

100mls warm water

Juice 2 lemons

4 T olive oil (tablespoon)

2 T honey (tablespoon)

I take it at any time of the day for my chest issues and flu, but not daily.  For the purpose of this treatment they recommend daily, which makes sense if one uses it to cleanse one’s entire system.  I once tried it but the lemons made me sick because of rheumatism - even though they say here that it is good for rheumatism because it becomes alkaline in the body.  That was not my experience, and I was advised to stop taking it daily - which I was sad about.

I need to tell you something important about this.  I've had two days doses of this mixture but the mixture overnight in the fridge caused the oil to separate from the liquid lemon/honey and formed a thick clot on top of the liquid because of course oil cannot mix with water.  I had to buzz it up in the liquidizer to break up the oil slick and take my dose.  Incidentally the instruction don't say what size of spoonful to take (is that a teaspoon or a dessertspoon or a tablespoon?) I took a dessertspoon full. Anyhow may I suggest that it's best to keep just the lemon juice with honey dissolved in it, in the fridge and when using a single dose just put a teaspoon of virgin olive oil or two if you can stand it, in a cup and pour a couple of tablespoons of the lemon honey on top. Give it a quick stir and down the medicine quickly.  Certainly half hour before Breakfast on an empty stomach is a good idea. Just thought I'd add this as help.

https://youtu.be/6UOfrkkafbg

《👍》 《👍》