r/prisonhooch • u/Ipselsteps • 7d ago

Mugolihooch

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So my partner is Italian, we look at Italian foods, but his family is from northern Italy so some of it is less typical than the mounds of delicious pasta.

Enter mugolio. Green, unripe and still growing pine cones packed weight for weight with brown sugar. The moisture gets sucked out with a pleasant piney taste. Sometimes it ferments a bit. Think maple syrup, but pine and some subtle banana flavours too for some inexplicable reason. Sometimes slightly funky.

But there's sugar in it. Will it hooch to something drinkable?

Mugolio from about 750g of pine cones, water to 11-12% predicted abv, put some yeast nutrients in there as well as the yeasty boys themselves. The mugolio was boiled after the green cones were removed. Picture is primary ferment.

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u/Ok_Duck_9338 7d ago

That air space is asking for trouble, Pinocchio.

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u/Ipselsteps 7d ago

Primary ferment. I'll move it into a smaller vessel in about a week.

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u/JonCoeisAMAZING 7d ago

Why is that much air space bad?

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u/Ok_Duck_9338 7d ago

More susceptible to oxidation and germs.

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u/JonCoeisAMAZING 7d ago

Oxidation?