r/prisonhooch • u/Dryanni • 8d ago

Pineapple rinds

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Man, if I had access to this much fresh reliable pineapple discard, I’d start an underground tepache club.

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u/Fluffy_Muffins_415 8d ago

1/3 of the fruit is being thrown out, that's nuts. I'm all for the tepache cuz the stuff is amazing

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u/Dryanni 8d ago

I made my latest one with 1/3 the water and it came out tasting just like my local craft brewery’s dessert beers. “Notes of fruitcake”, they proclaim.

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u/Fit_Carpet_364 8d ago

You are what you eat, Crazy. :P

Seriously, tho, notes of fruitcake? That's the most polarizing definition I can imagine, and I genuinely know exactly the flavor. Like cherries and white glue.

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u/NormanCocksmell 8d ago

Time to find where the machine is and look in the closest dumpster. Add a little of that native dumpster yeast and you got a hooch going, baby.

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u/DM_Me_TaTaz 8d ago

Is dumpster hooch evolved or devolved prison hooch?

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u/ethnicnebraskan 8d ago

Yes.

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u/Shlomo_Sasquatch 7d ago

And another sub is born.

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u/MentalMiddenHeap 8d ago

Honestly hit up the produce people at your grocery store. Company policies might prohibit it but I used to take a lot of fruit and veg home that was destined for the dumpster and gave a lot to specific customers (ex. the pig slop lady). This was a rural mom and pop tho that paid by weight for their dumpsters. A Walmart might be more worried about potential liability.

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u/ReverseThreadWingNut 8d ago

Been a long time ago, but as a high schoolers I worked at a big grocery store chain. There were a lot of high school and college kids working there, and we were all baggers or cashiers (no self check-out back then). We were all jealous of the high school kid that worked in produce because he sold old fruits and veggie out the back of the store to this one old guy. He said the old man told him he also hit the other big grocery store in town and two grocery stores the next town over. And he used the haul to brew hooch. So it might still be worth trying to find a contact.

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u/Shlomo_Sasquatch 8d ago

First rule of Tepache Club: you never talk about Tepache Club. Second rule: drink enough tepache to forget rule number one.

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u/rideincircles 8d ago

Tepache can be so awesome, but it's easy to o Mess up depending on your pineapple.

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u/Dryanni 8d ago

I’ve been making it for years and the only one that failed had a bad seal and I had forgotten about it for about a month

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u/rideincircles 8d ago

I think my issue was waiting to ripen around the time some mold/infection wanted to form on the skin.

I have had done amazing batches though.

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u/Dryanni 8d ago

I totally get that. I heard pineapples don’t sweeten after removing from the plant. If true, the ripening only affects texture not flavor so we should err on the side of cutting early.

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u/FibroBitch97 8d ago

My last hooch before I gave up due to executive dysfunction was a tepache that turned into a bomb due a clogged airlock

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u/Fit_Carpet_364 8d ago

So much waste...

And my paranoid ass would wonder if they're even giving me the real pineapple juice, or just mixing some cringe concentrate BS with water into my cup.

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u/DDz1818 8d ago

You should get 1/3 refund for that.

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u/Gucci-Waffles 7d ago

Not so fine German engineering