how to make your own hard drinks..

[Journer]

so over the weekend i had some friends over (mostly girls) and i went out and bought a shitload of smirnoff flavored drinks and some mike's hard lemonade...well...the bill came to like 90 bucks (got a some vodka and rum too, ) and i was thinking there has GOT to be a cheaper way to do all of this...obviously i could make some hunch punch or a variation of it, but it never tastes quite right, at least all the HP i've had...
so, i did some googling and found: Text
it looks interesting and i'm thinking about trying it, despite failed attempts at a similar recipe for root beer
so, what is the purpose of this post?
does anyone know of any good and somewhat simplistic ways to make malt beverages such as smirnoff ice (and their flavors (green apple, strawberry, etc.)) and mike's hard? i'm thinkin for around 50 bucks i could make a 1/2 to a full keg of something which would be awesome for a party! anywho, links/info are/is appreciated

 

[Ryan]

V8 splash + Captain Morgan's Pina-Flavored Rum = cheap buzz for me

 

[PhoenixOrion]

you don't know yukka?

edit: please don't use powdered $hit. use actual limes and lemons and put some muscle into that juicer.

 

[FleshLight]

1 L Everclear® alcohol
5.25 L (3 1.75L bottles) vodka
1 bottle peach schnapps
1 pint Bacardi® 151 rum
1 bottle 99 Apples® apple schnapps
10 L Sprite® soda
1 L Sunny Delight® orange juice
1 L triple sec
1.75 L bottle gin
1 bottle DeKuyper® Sour Apple Pucker schnapps
4 bottles Boone's Farm® Strawberry Hill wine
8 L Hawaiian Punch®
2 containers orange juice concentrate
fruit (as much as desired)

Use a large container ie. ice chest or similar. Allow the fruit to soak in all the alcohol for about 4 - 12 hours. Add all the juice and let sit overnight. Serve the next day.

 

[MikeMike]

Originally posted by: FleshLight
1 L Everclear® alcohol
5.25 L (3 1.75L bottles) vodka
1 bottle peach schnapps
1 pint Bacardi® 151 rum
1 bottle 99 Apples® apple schnapps
10 L Sprite® soda
1 L Sunny Delight® orange juice
1 L triple sec
1.75 L bottle gin
1 bottle DeKuyper® Sour Apple Pucker schnapps
4 bottles Boone's Farm® Strawberry Hill wine
8 L Hawaiian Punch®
2 containers orange juice concentrate
fruit (as much as desired)

Use a large container ie. ice chest or similar. Allow the fruit to soak in all the alcohol for about 4 - 12 hours. Add all the juice and let sit overnight. Serve the next day.

that has hangover, written all over it.

 

[Journer]

all of those are just hunch punch variations :/

hmm...i want something that tastes as close to possible as smirnoff green apple...lol

 

[Feldenak]

Did they come over to console you after that 5th straight loss?

War Damn Eagle!

 

[phisrow]

As a substitute for any flavored Vodka:
Cheapest source of ethanol available(everclear, cheap Vodka, terrible Vodka + Brita filter, lab ethanol, whatever) + Italian Soda syrup of desired flavour(s) + water, if needed, to achieve desired strength.

Hard Lemonade:
Prepare frozen lemonade concentrate with ethanol of just slightly higher than desired strength in place of the usual water.

Neither of these concoctions will be exactly brilliant(luckily the dangerously highbrow don't drink Smirnoff anyway); but italian soda syrup is quite cheap, available in numerous flavours, and is quite a strong flavour. Lemonade concentrate cylinders are similarly cheap, and taste perfectly decent. With a Brita filter and mixers, you should be able to get vaguely drinkable ethanol at 80 proof for under $10 a handle.

 

[KB]

Jungle Juice:

Kool-Aid + 195 Proof Grain Alcohol = cheap buzz


I have made hard apple cider using a similar process as the hard lemonade directions. It was quite easy and turned out well.

http://www.leeners.com/cider.html

 

[Journer]

feld: ha! as if the loss wasnt expected, lol.
phis: hmmm, cheap, high in alchohol, i might just try it, lol
KB: did you have any problems with yeast? any stinky/nasty smelling/tasting cider? if i'm not mistaken, you do the same thing for hard lemonade except you use lemons instead of apples/apple juice

 

[Kirby]

you know how i roll

 

[marulee]

Originally posted by: FleshLight
1 L Everclear® alcohol
5.25 L (3 1.75L bottles) vodka
1 bottle peach schnapps
1 pint Bacardi® 151 rum
1 bottle 99 Apples® apple schnapps
10 L Sprite® soda
1 L Sunny Delight® orange juice
1 L triple sec
1.75 L bottle gin
1 bottle DeKuyper® Sour Apple Pucker schnapps
4 bottles Boone's Farm® Strawberry Hill wine
8 L Hawaiian Punch®
2 containers orange juice concentrate
fruit (as much as desired)

Use a large container ie. ice chest or similar. Allow the fruit to soak in all the alcohol for about 4 - 12 hours. Add all the juice and let sit overnight. Serve the next day.

Humm...

 

[James Bond]

Spoti:

1/2 Gallon Cheap Vodka,
21 Cheap Beers,
6-8 Cans Concentrated Lemonade,
2-3 Bags of Ice,

Some of the best nights I will never remember.

 

[James Bond]

Originally posted by: Journer
all of those are just hunch punch variations :/

hmm...i want something that tastes as close to possible as smirnoff green apple...lol

Sorry, I didn't read that before... but...
Washington Apple is one of my favorite drinks, tastes so much like apple you won't believe it.

Washington Apple:
1 part Crown Royale (or Potter's if you are poor like me),
1 part Sour Apple Pucker Schnaaps,
1 part Cranberry Juice.

Usually when I make it I will mess with the ingredients some, until it is how "I like it".
I also smash up a few apples and throw them in.

 

[50cent1228]

buy one big bottle of rum and 2 liter coke and there a cheap drink

 

[uberman]

Originally posted by: FleshLight
1 L Everclear® alcohol
5.25 L (3 1.75L bottles) vodka
1 bottle peach schnapps
1 pint Bacardi® 151 rum
1 bottle 99 Apples® apple schnapps
10 L Sprite® soda
1 L Sunny Delight® orange juice
1 L triple sec
1.75 L bottle gin
1 bottle DeKuyper® Sour Apple Pucker schnapps
4 bottles Boone's Farm® Strawberry Hill wine
8 L Hawaiian Punch®
2 containers orange juice concentrate
fruit (as much as desired)

Use a large container ie. ice chest or similar. Allow the fruit to soak in all the alcohol for about 4 - 12 hours. Add all the juice and let sit overnight. Serve the next day.

Since I've made about ten of these, I'd like to make the following suggestions. After about my third batch I moved away from using Hawaiian Punch. It made it too darn sweet. Instead I went with more of a citrus blend.

This recipe needs a couple bottles of champagne which I always add last. You might want to replace the 99 Apples with Berentzen Appelkorn, which is often referred to as the best apple shnapps. I'd pitch out a few other things like the Boones Farm stuff. We toss in cut-up bananas, oranges, limes, etc.

"Allow the fruit to soak... and let sit overnight." I could never do this, not with everyone around me drooling. Serve it right away. It's good fresh. Of course this info. is only my opinion. I'm older now and haven't made this for 20 years. I don't want to.

 

[Journer]

nkgreen: haha, tis true, tis true...you are a vodka monster
tizyler: washington apple looks somewhat interesting...i might try it
50cent: agreed, tis a great drink and one of my favs, but i'm looking for something more crowd (aka girl) pleasing
uberman: never to old/young to have a good drink !

i'm thinking about buying one of those do it yourself homebrew kits...should be fun since i could use it for cider, beer, wine, pretty much anything i want...anyone tried these? worth the 100 bucks?

 

[Baked]

$90 for liquor? I hope you had a helluva orgy after emptying all the bottles.

 

[SagaLore]

Originally posted by: MIKEMIKE

Originally posted by: FleshLight
1 L Everclear® alcohol
5.25 L (3 1.75L bottles) vodka
1 bottle peach schnapps
1 pint Bacardi® 151 rum
1 bottle 99 Apples® apple schnapps
10 L Sprite® soda
1 L Sunny Delight® orange juice
1 L triple sec
1.75 L bottle gin
1 bottle DeKuyper® Sour Apple Pucker schnapps
4 bottles Boone's Farm® Strawberry Hill wine
8 L Hawaiian Punch®
2 containers orange juice concentrate
fruit (as much as desired)

Use a large container ie. ice chest or similar. Allow the fruit to soak in all the alcohol for about 4 - 12 hours. Add all the juice and let sit overnight. Serve the next day.

that has hangover, written all over it.

The cool part is that its also the cure for the hangover.

 

[Journer]

Originally posted by: Baked
$90 for liquor? I hope you had a helluva orgy after emptying all the bottles.

haha...nay...no orgy...but damn we had some fun

 

[George P Burdell]

Originally posted by: SagaLore

Originally posted by: MIKEMIKE

Originally posted by: FleshLight
1 L Everclear® alcohol
5.25 L (3 1.75L bottles) vodka
1 bottle peach schnapps
1 pint Bacardi® 151 rum
1 bottle 99 Apples® apple schnapps
10 L Sprite® soda
1 L Sunny Delight® orange juice
1 L triple sec
1.75 L bottle gin
1 bottle DeKuyper® Sour Apple Pucker schnapps
4 bottles Boone's Farm® Strawberry Hill wine
8 L Hawaiian Punch®
2 containers orange juice concentrate
fruit (as much as desired)

Use a large container ie. ice chest or similar. Allow the fruit to soak in all the alcohol for about 4 - 12 hours. Add all the juice and let sit overnight. Serve the next day.

that has hangover, written all over it.

The cool part is that its also the cure for the hangover.

BAHAHAHAHAHA!

 

[b0mbrman]

Hard liquor + drink = hard drink

If you want it a little sweeter (princess), use a drink concentrate and substitute the alcohol for some of the water you were supposed to add.

 

[DanFungus]

Made a 5 gallon batch of the hard lemonade today since I already have all the homebrew equipment. Used wine yeast, fermaid k for yeast nutrients, corn sugar, water and an assload of lemons. I'm going to bottle it, so it'll take some time till it's done, but definitely not bad at ~$12 total for two cases.

 

[Journer]

Originally posted by: DanFungus
Made a 5 gallon batch of the hard lemonade today since I already have all the homebrew equipment. Used wine yeast, fermaid k for yeast nutrients, corn sugar, water and an assload of lemons. I'm going to bottle it, so it'll take some time till it's done, but definitely not bad at ~$12 total for two cases.

nice! can you give me some info on it? the proccess...things i should know since i've never brewed...where to buy a good kit, etc. thanks

 

[DanFungus]

Originally posted by: Journer

Originally posted by: DanFungus
Made a 5 gallon batch of the hard lemonade today since I already have all the homebrew equipment. Used wine yeast, fermaid k for yeast nutrients, corn sugar, water and an assload of lemons. I'm going to bottle it, so it'll take some time till it's done, but definitely not bad at ~$12 total for two cases.

nice! can you give me some info on it? the proccess...things i should know since i've never brewed...where to buy a good kit, etc. thanks

I got mine locally - look in the phone book under the beer section if there are any homebrew shops. Read up on brewing, most people talk about Charlie Papazian's The Completely Joy of Homebrewing. Great book, easy to follow and remember: relax and have a homebrew
Howtobrew.com also has a ton of information.

The kit I got came with a 6.5 gallon glass carboy (big jug), a 5 gal carboy, some siphoning equipment, an ~8 gal bucket with a nozzle-like attachment (for bottling), bottle cap crimper, some bottle caps, bottles, carboy brush, bottle brush (cleanliness is key), 5 gallon pot, and sanitizer (ok to consume, doesn't leave residue behind like regular soap might). Might be forgetting something, but those are the main items.

Talk to HomeBrewerDude - he's the resident homebrewing master.

This is how I did it today:
6 cups (2lbs) corn sugar
1 packet EC-1118 Champagne yeast (good for 5 gal)
1 packet Fermaid K Yeast Nutrients(for 5 gal)
35 lemons (might be too many, no idea at this point-went with the ratio the other recipe used)


Cut up lemons slicing each into 6 pieces
Bring 3.5 gallons water to a boil
Add in all of corn sugar little by little and stir to mix in (make sure to not let sugar sit on the bottom of the pot, or else it will burn)
Toss in ~5 lemons worth into the pot and stir them in too for 5 minutes (for more lemon flavor? No idea, but it seemed like a good idea)
Turn off heat and start cool down to ~70F (I used a wort chiller, brings cooling time down to 15-25 minutes)
Add packet of yeast to 2oz water in a bowl and let sit for 15 minutes
Stuff rest of lemons into 6.5gal carboy
Siphon lemon/sugar/water concoction into carboy
Pour yeast/water combo into carboy
Add Fermaid K to some water in a bowl and pour into carboy
Add water to bring up to 5 gallon mark on carboy (the bottom row of lemons sit at 5 gallon mark)
Put on airlock and clean everything up

In about a week, I'll siphon everything into the 5 gal carboy (leaves most of the excess yeast and other junk at the bottom of the 6.5 carboy)

About two weeks after that, I'll siphon the 5 gal carboy into the bucket, bring 1oz corn sugar and some water to a boil in a pan, add the cornsugar into the bucket and stir it in carefully without making too many bubbles (oxygen can introduce bacteria at this stage), and then bottle it! It'll be ready to drink in > 1.5 weeks after bottling.

Also be sure to sanitize all equipment that touches the liquid (with exception of pot, stirring spoon.. anything that is used while the liquid is boiling - they just need to be cleaned, but bacteria is killed from the boiling water so sanitizing is not needed)

I'll update when it's finished, hope it's good!