Pineapple Beer

"This is something most Afrikaans South Africans grew up tasting. It is right up there alonside ginger beer, another totally South African thing. The longer it brews, the stronger it gets so drink up! Excellent over crushed ice on stink-hot days."
 
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Ready In:
72hrs 5mins
Ingredients:
5
Yields:
1 1/2 gallons
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ingredients

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directions

  • Discard pineapple stalk.
  • Wash unskinned pineapple well and chop up with skin and all.
  • Place all ingredients into a large container with a lid and stir to mix well. Cover and leave where it can be undisturbed.
  • The fermentation will start immediately. Stir twice a day over the next 72 hours. Don't worry - it is supposed to smell like fermented fruit! By the third day this smell will subside to a lovely beery, cidery smell.
  • Strain through a sieve or cheesecloth and bottle.

Questions & Replies

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  3. Does adding a little sugar to the bottle before bottling,help to produce more CO2 for extra fizz?
     
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I was born and raised in South Africa but now live in Delaware USA. Since I can remember I have been cooking! My first real cooking experience was when I was 7. I came home from school one afternoon and felt like French toast. My elder brother was home with his friends and did not want to make it for me, so I got a pan out, put it on the stove, turned the stove on to high. After that I could not remember what to do, but I knew that French toast involved bread so I put the bread in the hot pan without grease and poured milk over it! Oy vey... My brother's friend asked me what I was trying to make and I told him. He laughed and told me I was making it wrong but he also taught me how to make French toast the right way. I came home every day after that and made French toast. I felt so confident with the little bit of knowledge I had acquired that I soon started experimenting with other things. Nothing was going to stop me! The first full meal I ever made for my family was boiled rice and oven roasted chicken pieces with a steamed vegetable medley. I was 8 years old and my mom was in hospital. My dad was struggling to hold down an intensely busy job, keep the family going and be with my mom, so I thought I would help him. I don't think he believed that I had done it on my own. I remember telling him that I read in a cookery book how to make a roast chicken but I did not know what "a" rosemary was so I just put the chicken in the dish without it. Decades later with a myriad tried and tested recipes behind me - flops and failures included - I know my way around any food item and kitchen utensil, much to my family's delight!
 
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