BLUEBERRY WINE

bonjour, tout les fucks!

my kilju is still fermenting, but i'm going to bottle it this weekend. in the mean time, i started a batch of blueberry wine:



i'm still using the lame balloon airlocks but i'm getting some real ones later this week. how exciting! for me. kind of.

so anyway here's the recipe/directions:

- 2kg sugar
- 4 cans fruitopia blueberry/watermelon juice concentrate
- 1 can blueberry pie filling
- 2 8g packs fleischmann's dry active baking yeast
- water


i disinfected the glass carboy with bleach and soap and extremely hot water. it was a pain in the ass...but not as annoying as rinsing it, which took at least twice as long. seriously though, even if you're making shitty wine that's not going to taste that great, you don't want it tasting like soap or bleach.

anyway, same deal as usual, just sterilize everything you're using.

get your yeast going on the side in some warm water and sugar while you're putting the rest of the ingredients together in the carboy.

i put the blueberry pie filling in a blender with some water before i poured it in with everything. yeah just, add everything together in the carboy, and shake it up. then add your yeast, which by now should be bubbling and making noise. shake that up, too.

put your hobo airlock on and...wait. try to keep it warm and out of direct sunlight.

i'll probably let this one go for a month or so. i'll give it a taste in january to see, though. the yeast have been enjoying themselves in this one, too, so everything's going fine so far. it smells really good but we'll see how it tastes after a month of yeast partying. probably not great, but, it'll get me drunk.

KILJU UPDATE

okay so it's been 8 days so far and the yeast is still partying in the carboy. it's a bit less vigorous now, though. i was talking to a friend who makes his own wine and cider and he thinks it could go on longer than the 10-14 days i had originally figured. i think the reason a lot of kilju recipes say 10-14 days is because the finnish hosers who make it don't typically wait for the yeast to die.

anyway, updates and results whenever it's done, hopefully within the next week.

KILJU

okay fucks. i'm making kilju. it's homemade booze that's apparently popular in finland. it's pronounced "kill-you" not "kill-jew" OKAY?

i was SO sick of all the different guides on how to make it, they were so fucking vague about measurements and ingredients sometimes. so after sifting through all of them, i came up with my own.

so here's what i used to start my batch:

- 15L bottle of water
- 8Lbs of sugar
- 3 8g packs of bread yeast
- a balloon


i bought a large bottle of water and i used that. it was $4 for a 15L bottle. the sugar was about $5.50 and the yeast was about $1.50 for a grand total of $11 so far. all this shit is available at whatever crappy supermarket you have in your area. i went to price chopper. god that place is depressing. anyway here's mine:

instructions:

1.) boil about 3 cups of water and let it cool to about room temperature and add your yeast to that. make sure that water's NOT HOT, just nice and warm. if it's too hot it'll kill the yeast. don't stir it. wait until the yeast activates (you'll see some foam after a few minutes). then add a few tablespoons of sugar and give it a light stir. leave it for now.

2.) add the rest of the sugar to the water in the bottle and shake it up.

3.) get your balloon and poke a few holes in it with a pin.

4.) add the yeast to the bottle, shake it up again.

5.) stretch the balloon over the top of the bottle (the balloon is a cheap airlock that'll let gas out without letting any crap get in).

6.) wait for about 10 or 14 days.

7.) fin...for now. when it's done i'm gonna need:

- a hose for a ciphon
- cheese cloth
- another 15L bottle of water
- some kind of sterilizing solution

that'll all probably be another $10 but after that you're only gonna be paying for sugar and yeast. i'll update when it's done fermenting. so far so good, i can hear them bitches going nuts in the bottle fizzing around eating up all the sugar. when the alcohol content is high enough the yeast will die and stop producing gas and the balloon will deflate, letting me know that it's time to rack it.

i recommend listening to howlin' wolf while you make this but you can listen to whatever shit music you probably like.