Prison wine

[Andy Hamilton]

Decided to make a prison wine to put in the book. So I soaked 3 slices of wholemeal bread in some hot water overnight. Strained this water into a demijohn, then mixed in a bag of sugar and topped up with orange juice. Left it by a radiator for 5 days.

I thought the resulting brew was going to be pretty horrible but... it wasn't too bad. I took a bottle along to my homebrew circle and everyone agreed. However, no one had a second glass!

[Cligereen]

Andy, that could almost qualify as a breakfast wine! Sounds so much more classy than 'prison wine'.

More-or-less the same ingredients as brown toast and marmalade. How much water by the way? and did you add yeast? The way things are going in Ireland I may have to try that recipe!

[Milims]

A friend of ours told us about real prison wine - actualy made by him in prison (yeah I know we have some erm......unusual friends!) It was made out of marmite in a fire extiguisher! Apparenty vile but effective!

[Andy Hamilton]

The yeast comes from the bread and the water is not an exact science nor is the recipe, but I put it all in a two litre demijohn, came to about 800ml of water I think and about 1 litre of oj.

Marmite wine I guess you love it or hate it!

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did you get anyone else to try it?

[Andy Hamilton]

did you get anyone else to try it?

No and are you suggesting that my brew circle would drink anything

[Mr and Mrs luvpie]

to make it authentic, dont strain it leave the lumps of bread in and dont use demijohns, use squash bottles or buckets!! I actually work in a prison and you wouldn't believe the problems homebrew or "hooch" causes, this is the time of year we have to stop selling sugar and such items on the canteen, although I noticed a "master brewer" was ordering a lot of mince pies the other day... clever bugger!!

[MKG]

I'd check the jam orders too, if I were you.

Mike

[Mr and Mrs luvpie]

Its crazy, anything that can be fermented will be!! usually the hooch is made with bread or biscuits, fruit, fruit juice and water and left near a hot pipe. It has a foul stench and is extremely volatile, a recent find in a squash bottle that was being kept as evidence was having to be opened every 30 minutes to stop the bottle exploding! I was told of a guy who was a great brewer who used to use a peice of tubing and a bottle of washing up liquid which he put into the hooch bottle so tha oxygen would pass into the washing up liquid so the cell would smell lemon fresh than of the sickly reek of hooch!

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did you get anyone else to try it?

No and are you suggesting that my brew circle would drink anything

moi?