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Chateau Trailer Park (21st Century Ripple)

------------------------------------------ Mix 17-1/2 lbs of sugar into 5 gals of water at 150F. Dump into 5 gallon pail. After it cools, pitch Strand's Turbo Yeast. Cover and set air lock. Stir vigorously daily

On the morning of the fifth day, add the proper number of Kool-Aid packs for 5 gallons, stir vigorously, and cover. Lemon-Lime is best because it helps mask the yeast taste.

On the 9th day, fill a few 1 liter plastic bottles, take them to your local skid row and distribute to the local gentry. If nobody spits it out, you have a winner.

For the stuff you keep, fill empty two liter soda bottles and let them age as in let the sediment sink to the bottom and rack. Continuing doing this until the yeast taste is gone.

Don't worry about drinking a liter or two while waiting for it to clear. You won't start to go blind until the

5th or 6th batch.

But it's cheap and it's fast! :)

Dick

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Dick Adams
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Turbo Yeast? Isn't that for liquor? Why is that considered wine if no real juice is fermented or added?

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Wine Enthusiast

Technically nothing made from anything other than grapes is wine but tell that to someone who makes country wines and see what they think of that distinction...

:)

Turbo yeast is just very alcohol tolerant yeast as I understand it. I don't think you can make liquor without distilling of some sort but could be wrong there.

Joe

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Joe Sallustio

I meant that it is probably the type of yeast that they would use to ferment something before distillation.

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Wine Enthusiast

That is the only place I ever read about it too; a website that described distilling at home in New Zealand. I wonder what it really is.

Joe

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Joe Sallustio

Even my Oxford dictionary disagrees with that, going so far as to specify Elderberry and Ginger as just two examples of "wines"......... ;o)

Frederick

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frederick ploegman

I think that was Joe's point or in my words "Wine is made from grapes while wine with an adjective in front of it, e.g., Elderberry Wine, is made from whatever you like."

Dick

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Dick Adams

It's not truein the UK, maybe in Grape growing regions *tilts nose away from reader*

Jim

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jim

; a website that

It's a very fast fermenting yeast that is being used in all sorts of things alcoholic. Some people have also been useing it for normal country wines. Some of the high alcohol ones give an off flavour and are really best used for distilling.(as if we would!) but the ones that take a bit longer produce some excellent fast table wines. There's more about it all here

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Cheers Peter

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Peter

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