Durian cider - yes I went there.

[james4765]

http://www.flickr.com/photos/james4765/sets/72157633355350895/

Recipe is pretty straightforward, 1 durian, top it off with apple juice. Champagne yeast, because I have a lot of it (I'm normally a mead guy).

Find out in a week or so just what unholiness I have wrought.

 

[JimmyJ]

Very interesting, I love unusual ideas. I will be following this one. Good luck

 

[aiptasia]

I bet it smells worse than a$$.

 

[Pickled_Pepper]

wow. just...wow.

 

[Inner10]

That's pretty awesome...can't find them around here though.

 

[neosapien]

I am at once intrigued and horrified. I can't even begin to imagine how bad fermenting durian is going to smell. Please post pics and updates as you go.

 

[cthulu1975]

It will probably smell better than the durian on its own. Hopefully the rhino farts overpower it.

 

[Varmintman]

First post as well.

This is the spot where I say YUCK

 

[Pickled_Pepper]

Hopefully the rhino farts overpower it.

It's not often you see people 'wishing' for rhino farts. haha

 

[liquiditynerd]

The chopstick method! Now I have to find out what durian is. Either wAy I love a good experiment. Welcome to the forum

 

[LBussy]

I predict a chitinous pod will develop around the fermenter, and if you place a light behind it you will be able to see the alien creature begin to move at about the 6-week mark.

 

[JohanMk1]

I thought this was a creamy thread.

Looks like an awesome experiment.

 

[Tupperwolf]

Nice beard.

Did you taste any of the fruit? My understanding is that the flesh of the fruit tastes good but the actual pod itself smells absolutely awful?

 

[fosaisu]

Nice beard.

Did you taste any of the fruit? My understanding is that the flesh of the fruit tastes good but the actual pod itself smells absolutely awful?

The fruit itself smells very strongly (not just the pod) but tastes pretty good. Not sure I think it's good enough to tolerate the smell and difficulty of opening one, but much of Southeast Asia clearly thinks otherwise!

Will be very interested to hear how this turns out.

 

[Effingbeer]

I heard of someone doing a mead. Maybe it was in one of these HBT threads?

 

[WVMJ]

THe taste always reminds me of eating very ripe garlic cream with your sweaty toes. The worst of the sulfury smells will probably exit through your airlock, throughout your house, filling up the neigborhood. People will come out into the streets sniffing trying to decide who is the cause for such an assault on their noses. I suggest you join them, pretending to help find the culprit and missleading them until the worst of it is done fermenting. I tried that once living in a townhouse ripening some fishing bait, it would have worked, I had the neighbors thinking something terrible had happened in the farm next door, but then my wife turned me in and the homeowners ass. made me get ride of it all! Hopefully you can get it into a secondary before they narrow down their search to your basement. WVMJ

 

[mikescooling]

Their are people who don't like durian, and people who love it. It's like crack!! If I know you have fresh durian fruit, I'll break into your house and take it. You sir are the Man, please let us know how it works out?

 

[james4765]

It fermented fine, but the fruit left an appalling amount of pulp in the trub, and the skins in the fruit managed to clog my racking cane. So, in future attempts, a juicer will have to be used to keep from throwing so much stuff away.

It fermented to a pale yellow, cloudy, with an intense durian flavor. Without the sweetness of the fruit, it is pretty unpleasant.

I'm going to try a bit of camden tablet and some backsweetening to try and get more of the original durian flavor to come through, but right now, it's pretty much an onion and sulfur fart cider. Without the sweetness, the flavor is a LOT worse.

And it lingers.

For hours.

Even after trying to wash it away with a bloody mary, heavy on the tabasco.

 

[Thunder_Chicken]

... but right now, it's pretty much an onion and sulfur fart cider.

Hey, it might just be young. The funk of 40,000 years might go away with that much aging

And +1 for the great beard.

 

[Thunder_Chicken]

I predict a chitinous pod will develop around the fermenter, and if you place a light behind it you will be able to see the alien creature begin to move at about the 6-week mark.

Around the 7 week mark you'll start to hear a voice saying "Feed me Seymour!".

 

[ChefRex]

get more of the original durian flavor to come through,

I would let it age for a few months

 

[Bender]

.

 

[WVMJ]

Put it on the back shelf and let it age for the stinky flavors to blend together and get stronger That is a good idea for your label in the above post, I heard they were not allowed in some hotels, they should at least let you eat them on the porch. WVMJ

 

[mikescooling]

But you throw the skin in the trash and that's what stinks, give it a few days and it's a real pooper. Like what spent grain smells like after a week in the MLT but 40X stronger.

 

[Thunder_Chicken]

Find out in a week or so just what unholiness I have wrought.

It's hard to believe but, of all people, this unholiness was actually first suggested by ... REVVY! <*gasp*>

https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f12/durian-fruit-163639/#post1891712

He even named it: Durienfelwein. I bet that is an anagram for something truly Satanic :rockin:

I think Revvy needs a good exorcism, stat!

 

[wailingguitar]

The upside is that if it get's infected you will never know

 

[Thunder_Chicken]

The upside is that if it get's infected you will never know

It already is infected. It is the seed of the zombie apocalypse.

 

[Thunder_Chicken]

Necroposting a bit, but relevant:

http://newsfeed.time.com/2013/07/22/worlds-stinkiest-fruit-is-fermented-into-wine/

How did that batch come out James?

 

[StoneArcher]

His only two posts were on this thread. Hopefully he survived and the bottle didn't literally suck him in.

 

[Thunder_Chicken]

His only two posts were on this thread. Hopefully he survived and the bottle didn't literally suck him in.

Eww...just ewww...this is all so wrong. Who thought this was a good idea?

Oh yeah...Revvy:

 

[Bauerbrewery1989]

So how did this turn out? I lived overseas for a number of years (Malaysia) and am familiar with this fruit. The taste is different from person to person, some love it, some hate it. I'm indifferent, it's tasted like a strange meat to me (nothing like chicken). I'd be interested to find out how this tastes/turns out.

 

[Effingbeer]

So how did this turn out? I lived overseas for a number of years (Malaysia) and am familiar with this fruit. The taste is different from person to person, some love it, some hate it. I'm indifferent, it's tasted like a strange meat to me (nothing like chicken). I'd be interested to find out how this tastes/turns out.

I'm pretty sure they were all disintegrated upon the aroma part of their sensory evaluation, and were never heard from again.

 

[Bauerbrewery1989]

Not uncommon, I couldn't even imagine the rhino farts with this.

"Now on the 10 o'clock news, a local home had to be evacuated when one of the inhabitants tried to make durian cider."

 

[frankphoto2]

Durian Cider

Recipe is pretty straightforward, 1 durian, top it off with apple juice. Champagne yeast, because I have a lot of it (I'm normally a mead guy).

Find out in a week or so just what unholiness I have wrought.

I was thinking about trying this , - my thoughts after reading through tread are not to use to much of this since it mostly lactic acid so use a low malic acid cider and add tartaric acid to give it some brightness. perhaps it may benefit with some aeration and ageing to oxidise some of foul smelling stuff maybe ?