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Peanut brew?

Here's something bizzare I heard today.

I was at my local homebrew store, and the woman there said that a man who bought from there regularly filled the bottom half-inch of his gallon fermenter with peanuts, 500g sugar, high alcohol gervin yeast and let it ferment for a month. Apparently this makes neat alcohol which he adds spirit concentrates to (vodka, scotch etc)

I'm not planning to make it in a hurry (not so good when you have a couple of friends with nut allergies), but is that possible? How is it possible? Are there any advantages to making it that way?

It roused my curiosity, I didn't think nuts had much, if any, sugar in them.

Paul

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Overfiend
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There are recipes out ther efor various nut wines...the most prevalent of which is almond wine.

You can make wine out of lots of things without their own natural sugar. on the extreme end is wine made with tree leaves. jack keller has made wine with grass clippings.

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Droopy

You said he added 500g of sugar...I'm guessing this is where the sugar comes from. ;-)

If you meant that peanuts don't have much water, chances are he adds some--I doubt that the yeast will ferment powdered sugar sitting on top of peanuts...especially since yeast needs to be re-hydrated before it will do anything.

The fermentation will extract and produce flavour, colour, and aroma compounds from the peanuts as it ferments the sugar, which he then fortifies...interesting...I'd try it ! :-D

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CJ

Well I assumed that this would be in addition to sugar gained from the peanuts. It was kind of an assumption on my part that everything that goes into the fermenter has to aid the fermentation process. Didn't occur to me that the peanuts were for anything else than their sugar content.

Oh I see. So thats the point of it. Nothing aids the fermentation, the peanuts are purely for flavour etc. Interesting idea, I may have to meet this man.

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Overfiend

Ah yes, I've heard of this. Out of habit I pass over anything to do with nuts, as I don't like em

Given the jungle of a garden I have, that could be an interesting idea :D

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Overfiend

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