2 x Spike Your Juice Kits, "Value Pack"

by Spike Your Juice

• "2 x Kits!!" Turns your favorite juice into a delicious and refreshing alcoholic beverage
• 1 Kit (6 Packets) makes 3 gallons in 48 hours
• Can be served hot or cold - perfect year round
• 3 Fast & Easy Steps
• Based on the traditional wine making concept - Made in the USA

Product Description

Spike Your Juice in an astoundingly simple kit for transforming your favorite fruit juice into an alcoholic beverage. Simply pour the packet contents into your 64 oz juice container, seal with the airlock provided and set it aside for a minimum of 48 hours at room temperature. The longer it ferments, the more potent it becomes. Once the acquired taste is reached, close the bottle with the rubber stopper and refrigerate. It's as simple as that! Please Note: By purchasing this product you agree that you are over the age of 21, and have checked your local and state laws in regards to home brewing

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 11 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• ASIN: B003QVL4SW
• UPC: 094922265937
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (26 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #17,289 in Grocery & Gourmet Food (See Top 100 in Grocery & Gourmet Food)
  • #1 in Grocery & Gourmet Food > Home Brewing & Winemaking > Winemaking Ingredients > Additives

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

36 of 36 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Simple as it gets December 31, 2010

By Gregory King

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EDIT: I found an even better way to work this stuff. Read on for good tips.

Buy TWO (or more) bottles of the same juice. Apple or peach grape are good options. Let one ferment out dry...takes about a week.

Then, pour about 75% out into a pitcher. Refill the original container with fresh juice. Put the vapor lock back on...you've created Batch #2.

Pour the pitcher of dry alcoholic juice into the new container (with 25% juice). Squeeze the bottle to remove the rest of the air. Re-install the lid. Wait 24-48 hours until the bottle is stiff again and then refrigerate. Drink and enjoy perfectly sweet/dry/carbonated spiked juice.

The advantages?

1. No worrying about how long it'll take to ferment. You can run your first bottle dry and then add the fresh juice right before the weekend to prime the carbonation. You can leave the first bottle with vapor lock in a finished fermentation state for days/weeks without issue.
2. You control the sweetness/dryness. Vary the mix ratio to suit your taste.
3. You control the carbonation. Adjust the refrigeration and/or vent carbonation to avoid overpressure. (Squeezing out all the air helps prevent oxidation).
4. You get cleaner drink. The yeast drops out of suspension and is left in the next batch.
5. YOU REUSE THE YEAST AND SAVE MONEY! Do this just once per batch and you cut your cost by 50%. Plus the next batch starts up quicker than if you'd pitched new yeast.

As a side note, this yeast is particularly well-suited for this task. I tried some white wine yeast once and it turned my apple juice into a STINKY ROTTEN EGG SULFUR BOMB! No kidding....the yeast got all stressed out and burped sulfur. Yuck. This yeast has never let me down in 10-20 batches.

Original Review:

Wow, this stuff is fun. Thankfully, it comes in double kits so you can experiment faster ( or make twice as much) without waiting.

Go grab a variety of 64oz 100% juice bottles from Trader Joes. I've tried pear cider and blackberry so far...and both worked great. Or save some money and get apple juice or peach grape from Walmart. Choose your poison.

Check it after 2 days. You'll probably want to go 3 or 4 days to get rid of a good amount of sugar and get enough alcohol. But check it daily after that, as the fermentation will be geometrically faster as the yeast multiply. After 4 days, you'll probably have a much drier taste...too dry for some.

I use a strainer to filter out the largest chunks of dead yeast, but they won't hurt you.

And I left the cap on in the fridge to have the residual yeast carbonate the drink. Yes, I was risking explosion, but it tastes MUCH better. And the cold temperature slows the fermentation...just check the bottle rigidity twice a day. If it's too stiff, HAVE A DRINK! The nice thing is, it'll repressurize itself a bit, unlike soda that goes flat after you open it.

Give it a try....you can't go wrong.

24 of 25 people found the following review helpful

4.0 out of 5 stars Works well, makes a nice bubbly drink October 18, 2010

By David M. Warren

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Basically it does just want it says. Get a juice, any 100% juice with more than the required amount of sugar per serving, drop in the powder, place the supplied air seal on the bottle, and wait two days. In return, you'll get a nice bubbly drink that tastes similar to mixing whatever juice you used with a hard cider. I used white grape, and probably should have picked a hardier variant. It would be a great drink for a party punch bowl (since it's relatively inexpensive per serving), or a hot summer day.

One thing to note, when you've reached the desired fermentation, remove the yeast from the bottom. If not, it will continue fermenting, even if you put it in the fridge. I did this by pouring the juice on the top into a pitcher, and leaving the sludge in the bottom of the juice bottle. Just wash it out, and put the juice back in, and you're set.

Also, be sure to keep the airlock on the bottle once it's in the fridge. Don't use the bottle cap! Since the yeast is still doing its job, if you use the bottle cap, pressure will cause an explosion.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars It does what it's told January 8, 2012

By Garrett

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I got this as a gift for an old roommate of mine. Despite our propensities for beer and whiskey, neither I nor he have anything against prison wine. When life gives you pomegranate juice, probably the best thing to do is to ferment said pomegranate juice. This product really does work, and it's incredibly easy, and cost effective, and pomegranates have antioxidants.