Over the past 3 – 4 years, with increasingly less money and equally more desire, I have engaged in trying to create alcohol.
I enjoy a drink, I enjoy free things and most of all I love a bit of DIY (and I mean actual DIY, not the flat-pack business you lot get up to).
In year one, a close friend and myself raided a local framer’s apple tree, our object of desire was scrumpy… after much struggling and pressing of apples; by hand mind; we ended up with a slurry of appley sludge. A requisitioned beer keg gave us a cheap fermentation chamber, and an outhouse gave us the place to store it.
The results… I’m not going to lie, weren’t brilliant.
three months later I opened said keg, to be met with a rotten apple slurry… spelt strongly of vinegar, and tasted of death.
Fast forward to last November I thought I’d try my hand at some more homebrew. a stack of Ginger root, a handful of chillies… I have made some fabulous alcohol. On the strength of the fabulous alcohol I have just made, I’m doing it again.
The Challenge: To create fabulous alcohol with as little means as possible. Each project should cost no more than £10, and should be potent and drinkable enough that I should want for nothing else.
The Reward: Cheap, Wonderful Booze, steeped in the ethical victory of foraging and re-cycling!!
Clean Cut Xombee
A year in Homebrew 
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