Wild Berry Wine

[wtbengineer]

This beer is just my first attempt and I wanted to be as basic and primitive as I could be. Even how I grow my hops is minimal and Old World in that I use 20ft poles and string the hops in a Maypole fashion, like a Tee-Pee. I give them the least care I can to test the limit of their ability to grow in my swamp that can be too shaded, too wet, or too dry. I think of it as my R&D farm for sustainable intensive farming to produce SHTF products like tobacco, beer and wine. How do you produce these things when your working with almost nothing? This is my reasoning and process for learning things like this.

So if this primitive batch of evil brew looks like beer, smells like beer, tastes like beer and gives me a buzz, I have success. I have learned a lot from this and have been keeping notes, so the amount of hops (Chinook) isn't that important right now IMO as I've learned the basics.

Now, the big test will be bottling this "Swamp Gut" without it exploding or going bad.

I get that, it's good thinking.  I know if TSHTF I would want to be able to produce some beer still.  I couldn't do it with my current setup, I'd have to build a fire to get my kettle boiling instead of flipping a switch.  Then I'd have to figure out how to control my mash temperature somehow too.  I force carbonate with CO2 now, but if things went south I'd have to figure out how to naturally carbonate with my equipment.  Lots of problems to figure out.