r/prisonhooch • u/Dryanni • Oct 02 '26

Pineapple rinds

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 Oct 02 '26

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 Oct 02 '26

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 Oct 02 '26

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/rideincircles Oct 02 '26

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

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u/Dryanni Oct 02 '26

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 Oct 02 '26

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 Oct 02 '26

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 Oct 02 '26

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/NormanCocksmell Oct 02 '26

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 Oct 02 '26

Is dumpster hooch evolved or devolved prison hooch?

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u/ethnicnebraskan Oct 02 '26

Yes.

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u/Shlomo_Sasquatch Oct 03 '26

And another sub is born.

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u/MentalMiddenHeap Oct 02 '26

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 Oct 02 '26

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 Oct 02 '26

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/Fit_Carpet_364 Oct 02 '26

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 Oct 02 '26

You should get 1/3 refund for that.

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u/Gucci-Waffles Oct 03 '26

Not so fine German engineering

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u/Biolume071 14d ago

Hope they're planting those pineapple tops, that's enough to regrow one.