Tepache (my style)

Chef CJ

Ingredients

  • 1 pineapple
  • Gallon water
  • 1 ginger nub
  • 3 habaneros
  • 1 cup piloncillo or brown sugger
  • Some hibiscus leaves dryed

Directions

  • Cut all the pineapple, habanero, and ginger (keep seeds if you want it spicy)
  • Add brown sugar, ginger edd aur and habanero. Keep the skin on the ginger for the fermentation process and add some water and dissolve the sugar
  • Add 1/4th some of the pineapple and more water then muddle up and crush all the items to get the juices flowing
  • Add all the pineapple and muddle it up one more time then add water and shake well
  • Leave out at room temp in a shady spot for at least 3 days (you should see bubble forming) make sure to burp it aka open the lid every day and let gas gas out
  • Keep out for 3 days to a week (depending on how much you want it to taste like beer) and after 3 days chill and Stoart drinking!!
  • Bonus if you wanna make more tepache you can use the same pineapple and everything just add water brown sugar and muddle up and shake and repeat steps5-6