{"id":4465,"date":"2013-09-30T07:08:56","date_gmt":"2013-09-30T10:08:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paulopedott.com\/paulo\/?p=4465"},"modified":"2013-09-30T07:08:56","modified_gmt":"2013-09-30T10:08:56","slug":"homemade-diy-manguaca","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paulopedott.com\/paulo\/?p=4465","title":{"rendered":"Homemade DIY Mangua\u00e7a!"},"content":{"rendered":"<section>\n<h2>How to Turn Your Favorite Fruit Juice into Cheap Homemade Booze<\/h2>\n<p>Making your own alcohol at home sounds like fun, but it&#8217;s a long, complicated, and sometimes expensive process. You need all sorts of equipment, and by the time you&#8217;re finished, it&#8217;s been a few weeks\u2014even months.<\/p>\n<p>If you want to try home-brewing without all the hassle, one of the most painless ways to do it is to start with fruit juice. Claire Lower over on\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.xojane.com\/diy\/make-alcoholic-juice-champagne-yeast\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">xoJane<\/a>tried this method using two different types of yeast powder to see which one produced the highest alcohol content. Here&#8217;s how to try it yourself.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section>\n<h3>What You&#8217;ll Need<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Large bottle of 100% fruit juice<\/li>\n<li>Packet of yeast powder<\/li>\n<li>An airlock (like\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.midwestsupplies.com\/airlock-s-bubble-type.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">this one<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Hydrometer (optional if you want to measure alcohol content)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<figure id=\"60262094docPartGal880019\" role=\"group\">\n<div>\n<div>\n<figure data-index=\"0\"><a href=\"http:\/\/img.wonderhowto.com\/img\/original\/32\/27\/63514667710664\/0\/635146677106643227.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/img.wonderhowto.com\/img\/32\/27\/63514667710664\/0\/turn-your-favorite-fruit-juice-into-cheap-homemade-booze.w654.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>You can use any kind of juice you like, but it has to be 100% fruit juice with no preservatives, and preferably at least 20 grams of sugar per serving. Claire used a product called\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/spikeyourjuice.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Spike Your Juice<\/a>, which is a yeast powder kit that includes an airlock, and a generic packet of champagne yeast from a home-brew supply store.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section>\n<h3>Step 1: Measure Out Yeast Powder<\/h3>\n<p>Since the Spike Your Juice powder was divided into 1-gram packets, Claire used a kitchen scale to measure out a gram of the champagne yeast to create an accurate comparison.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"16569083docPartGal880021\" role=\"group\">\n<div>\n<div>\n<figure data-index=\"0\"><a href=\"http:\/\/img.wonderhowto.com\/img\/original\/58\/82\/63514668089604\/0\/635146680896045882.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/img.wonderhowto.com\/img\/58\/82\/63514668089604\/0\/turn-your-favorite-fruit-juice-into-cheap-homemade-booze.w654.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>You can use more or less, depending on how high a percentage of alcohol you want.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section>\n<h3>Step 2: Add Yeast Powder to Juice<\/h3>\n<p>Pour the yeast powder into your bottle of juice and screw on the airlock.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"57869527docPartGal880023\" role=\"group\">\n<div>\n<div>\n<figure data-index=\"0\"><a href=\"http:\/\/img.wonderhowto.com\/img\/original\/62\/57\/63514668224825\/0\/635146682248256257.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/img.wonderhowto.com\/img\/62\/57\/63514668224825\/0\/turn-your-favorite-fruit-juice-into-cheap-homemade-booze.w654.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/section>\n<section>\n<h3>Step 3: Wait<\/h3>\n<p>Now, just let it sit for a few days. It&#8217;ll bubble up when it&#8217;s fermenting. If any juice gets into the airlock while it&#8217;s fermenting, take it off and rinse it, then put it back on. You can pour a little juice off the top if it foams up too much.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s what Claire&#8217;s looked like after about 72 hours:<\/p>\n<figure id=\"53042462docPartGal880025\" role=\"group\">\n<div>\n<div>\n<figure data-index=\"0\"><a href=\"http:\/\/img.wonderhowto.com\/img\/original\/77\/47\/63514668309611\/0\/635146683096117747.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/img.wonderhowto.com\/img\/77\/47\/63514668309611\/0\/turn-your-favorite-fruit-juice-into-cheap-homemade-booze.w654.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>The bottle on the right has the regular champagne yeast in it, which produced a much higher percentage of alcohol than the Spike Your Juice packet. If you have a hydrometer, you can measure the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Alcohol_by_volume#Calculation_of_alcohol_content\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">ABV<\/a>\u00a0using this formula:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>ABV = (Original Gravity \u2013 Final Gravity)\/ 0.736<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You can find more photos and details on the differences between the two bottles over on\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.xojane.com\/diy\/make-alcoholic-juice-champagne-yeast\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Claire&#8217;s tutorial<\/a>. If you&#8217;re interested in learning more about home brewing, be sure to check out some of our\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/tag.wonderhowto.com\/home-brewing\/\">other articles<\/a>, or maybe even try your hands at some\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/tag.wonderhowto.com\/how-to-pruno\/\">prison pruno<\/a>\u00a0(aka\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/tag.wonderhowto.com\/how-to-hooch\/\">hooch<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shutterstock.com\/pic-153413690\/stock-photo-glass-of-orange-juice-at-garden-in-the-morning.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Juice glass<\/a>\u00a0image via Shutterstock, all other images via Claire Lower<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Source:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/food-hacks.wonderhowto.com\/how-to\/turn-your-favorite-fruit-juice-into-cheap-homemade-booze-0148602\/\">How to Turn Your Favorite Fruit Juice into Cheap Homemade Booze \u00ab Food Hacks<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How to Turn Your Favorite Fruit Juice into Cheap Homemade Booze Making your own alcohol at home sounds like fun, but it&#8217;s a long, complicated, and sometimes expensive process. You need all sorts of equipment, and by the time you&#8217;re finished, it&#8217;s been a few weeks\u2014even months. If you want to try home-brewing without all [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":4467,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulopedott.com\/paulo\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulopedott.com\/paulo\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulopedott.com\/paulo\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulopedott.com\/paulo\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulopedott.com\/paulo\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4465"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/paulopedott.com\/paulo\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4465\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4468,"href":"https:\/\/paulopedott.com\/paulo\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4465\/revisions\/4468"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulopedott.com\/paulo\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulopedott.com\/paulo\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulopedott.com\/paulo\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulopedott.com\/paulo\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}