Came home to find the wife doing something rather exciting...
She's got these 10 liter bins from the market, a bunch of exotic fruits and herbs and is doing some homebrew to make Chinese medicine tonics.
The bins have screw-on lids but are not airtight, she's left them slightly loose.
Each bin has 5 liters of water and 1 kg of brown sugar.
She washed the fruit and herbs then dumped them with bottled water and brown sugar direct in the bins - no yeast was added.
The plan is to leave them for a year then mix them together to create the elixir. She is still missing three vital ingredients.
Bin 1 is 3 kg Thai red grapes.
Bin 2 is 3 kg boraphet (Giloya)
http://healthnbeauty.myworldmysite.com/content/health-benefits-giloya
Bin 3 is 3 kg makham pom (Emblica)
http://www.siamnatural.com/makhampom.htm
Bin 4 is 3kg samor (Chebula)
http://www.ayurvista.net/herbs/?view&herb=70efdf2ec9b086079795c442636b55fb
Bin 5 is snow lotus extract (said to be from Tibet)
http://herbs-treatandtaste.blogspot.com/2011/06/snow-lotus-spectacular-snow-lotus.html
She plans to sell 700ml bottles for about 4 dollars locally. I sampled her friends medicines today, it is fairly low alcohol, very sweet, tastes a little bit like Korean traditional wines eg bokbunja. Not unpleasant but not something I would drink recreationally. One slight problem, alcohol brewing might be illegal I'm not sure. Also I have my doubts about the no yeast thing, and lack of airlock - which is why I'm posting in this subforum.
She's got these 10 liter bins from the market, a bunch of exotic fruits and herbs and is doing some homebrew to make Chinese medicine tonics.
The bins have screw-on lids but are not airtight, she's left them slightly loose.
Each bin has 5 liters of water and 1 kg of brown sugar.
She washed the fruit and herbs then dumped them with bottled water and brown sugar direct in the bins - no yeast was added.
The plan is to leave them for a year then mix them together to create the elixir. She is still missing three vital ingredients.
Bin 1 is 3 kg Thai red grapes.
Bin 2 is 3 kg boraphet (Giloya)
http://healthnbeauty.myworldmysite.com/content/health-benefits-giloya
Bin 3 is 3 kg makham pom (Emblica)
http://www.siamnatural.com/makhampom.htm
Bin 4 is 3kg samor (Chebula)
http://www.ayurvista.net/herbs/?view&herb=70efdf2ec9b086079795c442636b55fb
Bin 5 is snow lotus extract (said to be from Tibet)
http://herbs-treatandtaste.blogspot.com/2011/06/snow-lotus-spectacular-snow-lotus.html
She plans to sell 700ml bottles for about 4 dollars locally. I sampled her friends medicines today, it is fairly low alcohol, very sweet, tastes a little bit like Korean traditional wines eg bokbunja. Not unpleasant but not something I would drink recreationally. One slight problem, alcohol brewing might be illegal I'm not sure. Also I have my doubts about the no yeast thing, and lack of airlock - which is why I'm posting in this subforum.