Now about that Air

Welll howdy folks...... Yeasty Potatoes here from the other side of the tracks.

I'm retired, living in an apartment and my neighbour is about one step away from being a rubby.

He likes his booze.

Me..... Well I was never a big drinker but was intrigued at the possibility of getting gizzled on the cheap.

Now the other month we got to talking and the long and the short of it is that a couple of hundred bucks later we had a

Initially we were going to try beets in a bucket but common sense told me that the first time we should go with a kit.

So I bought a white wine kit mixed it up into a glass carboy added a couple extra pounds of sugar and away it went.

Now after two months the fizzing had stopped, it kinda looked clear, and there was crud on the bottom.

Now needing to bottle this stuff and having no bottles, my buddy went to a bottle depot and bought a bunch of used plastic coke bottles in various sizes from 750 ML, 1 and 2 Litres. Four dollars and eighty cents as I recall.

Taking them home he washed them in his bathtub with industrial soap and rinsed them with water and bleach.

After that we siphoned the carboy down to the crud and filled up about a dozen bottles in various sizes.

Now it was time to test the product.

I gave my buddy a full litre and poured myself a half a glass and settled down for an interesting experiment.

Now with an empty stomach I was really feeling my oats after a half hour and figured I'd better chow down on a big juicy burger real soon or I'd be in real trouble with the toidy.

My buddy on the other hand was used to juice and kept on sucking back on his litre and by the time an hour had passed he was getting down on his cups. Glassy eyed, loud and repetitive, a tad beligerant, well you know the type.

So I sent him home with a couple of two litre bottles and that was the last I saw of him for almost a week.

He finally showed up the other day and we both agreed that whatever was in the bottles worked like a hot dang.

Now I've been following this group for a while, lurking and reading, and I do appreciate that air seems to be the common enemy, but here is my situation.

I've been sucking back out of a 2 litre coke bottle for over a week.

The jug is half empty and it certainly has lots of air in it.

Every day when it's time for a shot I unscrew the cap and have a good wiffy.

Smells fruity, kinda like apples and tastes pretty good when I cut it with frozen orange juice.

Not a hint or a wiff of vinegar..... Or so far so good.

Now I don't know just how much air is needed to spoil the juice or how long it needs to do the deed but I've been drinking out of this bottle for a week now and at my drinking rate I figure the bottle is good for another three or four days.

So now that the carboy is empty I think I'll get my buddy to wash and sterilize it in his bathtub and try another batch.

I bought a dozen cans of Welch's frozen grape juice so I think I will give it a go adding ten pounds of sugar for the fuel and super yeast for the bang.

Yeasty