Pea pod wine
Found a recipe for this "drink" once which promised unheard of drinking pleasures.

After spending 3 months taking over the freezer with vegetable cast-offs I finally had sufficient to make the wine.

Three months later I take the stuff to a party (I'm have something of a reputation amoung my friends for bringing home-brewed liquids to parties) and try it. For the first time.

This stuff tastes even worse than it sounds. Even Graeme wouldn't touch it (and he drank 3 litres of my minging cola wine).

Tightwad? I can't bring myself to waste all that lovely alcohol and throw the last bottle of it away. I'm still trying to work out what to do with it.

Suggestions please.
(markthebrewer doesn't know if he's coming or going or coming, Wed 29 Oct 2008, 14:44, 13 replies)

soup?
stock?
cleaner?
detergent?
add some soap and make shampoo?
donate to kids gunge tanks for the nickelodeon awards?
(bazmorningstar efil4nat3b, Wed 29 Oct 2008, 14:50, closed)

"Purification"
I'm wondering whether I should freeze it.

Hmmmmmmm.
(markthebrewer doesn't know if he's coming or going or coming, Wed 29 Oct 2008, 14:53, closed)

Take it to a park
and give it to Aqualung, then take off before he has a chance to taste it.
( The Resident Loon Not a demographic. Do not measure., Wed 29 Oct 2008, 14:54, closed)

What is this recipe?
We must know!
(ThomsonsPier consumes, Wed 29 Oct 2008, 15:02, closed)

The Recipe
To the best of my recollection:
Pea-pods
Water
Sugar
Yeast
(markthebrewer doesn't know if he's coming or going or coming, Wed 29 Oct 2008, 15:10, closed)

Proportions
I'm even less hazy about the actual amounts, but it's about:
1 gallon (UK)
4 kg pea pods
1 kg sugar
Yeast.

Boil green stuff in a pan (about 20 mins I think)
Strain off the pods and add the sugar. Make up to 1 gallon with boiled water.
Allow to cool.
Add yeast and leave to ferment.

Siphon off when clear.

Simple
(markthebrewer doesn't know if he's coming or going or coming, Wed 29 Oct 2008, 15:13, closed)

Ye Gods.
That sounds awful.
(ThomsonsPier consumes, Wed 29 Oct 2008, 15:26, closed)

Until the 'unpleasantness'
the former Mr Quar was a science teacher.

The curriculum demanded an understanding of the process of creating alcohol
He swiped a few of my super-sour grapefruits for the kids to make wine with, on the principle that it would taste so foul that none of them would try to steal any.

However, the mean git couldn't bear to sling it down the sink so he brought the lot home.

Overcome with foolish curiosity, I tried a few glasses. I was riotously drunk almost immediately and very ill all next day.

The wine still didn't get chucked though and our 14 year-old son tried it next, with identical results.

I seem to remember seeing him lying on the sofa, glugging down the cloudy dregs straight from the demijohn.

Meanness + stupidity = a rotten hangover.
(Juan Quar is clinging to her front teeth on, Wed 29 Oct 2008, 15:12, closed)

Oh dear
Yes, I think we've all been in that position.

Couple of mates of mine decided to drink one of my beers without waiting for it to clear. (I even had the good-manners to tell them not to drink it).

They didn't make it to lectures the next day, and I avoided the toilet for about a week while things worked their way through.
(markthebrewer doesn't know if he's coming or going or coming, Wed 29 Oct 2008, 15:15, closed)

One chap I knew at university
made stuff out of anything he could find, really. The leftover-coffee-grounds-liqueur was particularly awful, I recall.

The one time I tried to make stout it turned out alright, albeit rather too sweet for my tastes.
(ThomsonsPier consumes, Wed 29 Oct 2008, 15:28, closed)

You shoud give it as a gift to someone you don't like
Kill 2 birds with one stone as it were.
( flirting with badgers What? It sounded good at the time., Wed 29 Oct 2008, 16:32, closed)

Clearly it needs distilling
until it's about 60% ABV.

Then you should be able to clean spoons with it.
(Stu Moo winner of five nobble piece prizes, Wed 29 Oct 2008, 16:55, closed)

Freeze distillation
It won't taste any better, but you'll get drunk faster...
( MatJ LOOK, Wed 29 Oct 2008, 22:04, closed)