You didnt mention prunes in your title, that's where the name comes from yah goofy goober

And, they frequently make it in their toilets.

well, it's only 300 characters for a TIL post, and I knew if I said "also, it originates from prunes hence pruno" and then had to go on further explaining myself as prunes are not always available in prison, they also use any fruit/sugar they can get their hands on., etc. etc. etc.

ps I have never been called a 'goofy goober' and I am honoured for this, thank you!

They can also make it with ketchup from ketchup packets.

Anything with a high sugar content

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Someone could make a lot of money selling beer in prison.

Hooch

Our boat ran out of booze in the Aleutians one season so my bunkmates stewed some up in a hefty bag. Waiting for it to be ready was such an exercise in patience for us twentysomethings. Tasted the same going down as it did coming back up.

Tell everyone why it's called toilet wine. 😉

I thought this was common knowledge.

Better than bathtub gin?

Of course it's shank or be shanked

my roommate was doing this for months and she wasn't even in prison.

r/prisonhooch

this shit will get you drunk

Idk why some people put bread since cooked bread has no yeast and you're not making beer anyways. All you need is juice and sugar.

Kinda obvious?

Isn’t there one where they ferment their poop and huff it?

no. that's a silly urban myth.

raisins were the preferred base when i was in. it was truly vile.

They also make Jankem where they poo in a jar and cover it and them inhale the fumes to get high

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It’s probably a nice nutrient source that aids the fermentation process. Fruit juices don’t contain a lot of food for yeast and it’s not like they’re using aggressive strains to ferment with.

It's real. It's called jenkem and it definitely exists.

Going to have to start throwing bread crumbs at you from a park bench if you don't stop being a silly goose

Jenkem

It absolutely is not a myth. Sent a guy to the infirmary because he passed out and hit his head on the corner of the bed frame.

And blind. Can't filter out the methanol

sobbing Of course...

lol, just because it's a silly urban myth doesn't mean there aren't people stupid enough to believe it and give it a try. hell, i fell for the one about smoking banana peels when i was a kid. but i also spent 4 years in prison and never ran into or heard about anyone dumb enough to actually try the jenkem one.

It actually works and is a real thing is why it's not an urban myth. It has a Wikipedia page.

i hate to be the one to break this to you, but having a wikipedia page doesn't mean that something is true.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flat_Earth

Oh it’s real. Butt hash is a menace

Yeah further investigation has lead me to conclude that this is, in fact, a myth. Thanks for the correction.

no worries, it was good for a larf

Toilet wine; hooch

My dad works at a correctional facility and he teaches me all kinds of crazy stuff they make. Got to get creative with the limited supplies lol.

Lol also don't refer to anyone incarcerated as 'goofy' it's the worst insult reserved for inmates charged with sexual offenses against children

In Canada it's called 'brew'

Beers to low alcohol percentage and to strong of smell. Everclear or moonshine is the way to go. Vodka is a decent choice as well.

Buck

Protip: You can't buy alcohol with food stamps, but you can buy the making's to make alcohol with food stamps!

What drink do prisoners who are not incarcerated make?

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It's because most prisoners are really dumb and THINK they're using the yeast. What's happening is the bread acts as a sponge and traps all kinds of bacteria from the environment. Basically you're using ballsweat bacteria to make your booze...

Truthfully it is rarely made in toilets any longer since toilets in most correctional facilities have no tanks for hiding the garbage bag full of fruit liquor. Toilets on the other hand are often used as a cooking basin with a device called a stinger. Often inmates will exclusively defecate in an alternate toilet from their cell in order to keep their toilet clean for cooking.

I was a correctional officer once upon a time.

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I can't say I've ever been drunk enough to understand what it was about alcohol that made it worth all that trouble.

Methanol is primarily produced from fermenting grain, not sugar or fruit. Although a small amount of methanol will still be produced, the antidote happens to be ethanol, which will be present in much higher concentrations than methanol. So not much danger of blindness if any.

It makes you feel better when everything is shitty

Do you actually believe that? How gullible are you?

Does it? It doesn't make me feel any better the rest of the time.

Many prisons ban or heavily restrict fruits and juices because of people making pruno on the sly, so inmates would make it using bread and potatoes.

End result was a massive botulism outbreak.

Huh. Learned something new today

Minimum wage or below

Eli5, for future prisoners.

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It's already being done with almost 20x mark up. https://youtu.be/8nEd7sH9eHg

Honestly anything is worth the trouble in prison. I knew someone who started and ended a heroin habit during their time. My brother got brainwashed reading weird nazi pamphlets that we had to like, talk him down from once he got out.

A stinger btw is just live more or less live wires that you use to heat up a thing. Either straight from the outlet or you run them through other metals like nail clippers or pencils or... Like an electric tea kettle I've seen in the UK shows basically but dangerous as fuck. Drop it in water, soon you got boiling water.

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Eses next door got the pruno straight cooking (mira, homes).

Man all that is beyond me. I was in jail not prison sooo.... Also I tried not to look when scumbag shit was going on anyway.

Even in jail, dudes who been familiar a few times and waiting to get transferred..... I'm a giant white dude who doesn't need to be noticed so I'm just gonna mind my business. Do your thing guys. Imma pray that I can get some ramen a few times a week.

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Probably the same thing just at home since parolees aren't allowed to buy alcohol AFAIK.

You can't really call it ramen if contains slim Jim's and chips sir.

And it's good in the sense how... You ever meet old army infantry dudes who buy military MREs and are like "this Chili Mac made in 1997 is amazing brother". My brother does this. Gross. It's like that. it's gross but amazing.

It's more a slop soup type thing.

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You can make sangria in the terlit

Also if you're a co or whatever... The fuck is up with pickles in the ramen casserole thing? Wtf. You got the slimjims or maybe sardines in the ramen mash thing.. why pickles? Always fuckin pickles. Find out and let me know

Only consistent shit is ramen and pickles. Sometimes it's slimjims sometimes sardines. Sometimes Doritos sometimes Cheetos. Sometimes bread sometimes not. Always pickles.

Also speaking of jail food. Get 2 honeybuns (or if you're lucky a danish pastry w cheese) and empty one of those tiny handsized boxes of your favorite cereal in the middle... Make a sandwich.it's legit great. Fruit loops, pebbles, Applejack's... Any of those colorful types. Amazing.

Disgusting. Sounds like a good constipation cure.

Toilet ramen ‘93 man those were some good noodles

For some reason I read your comment as "They can also make ketchup from ketchup packets" and I was really confused.

I work in a prison. That stuff stinks to high heaven. Just disgusting... I have no idea how anyone drinks it.

just in the trenches huh LMAO

Xdd

We called it hooch in my days locked up. It’s an…acquired taste.

we lived in a primarily white suburban neighborhood. we were low-to-middle class in a primarily hick town full of weird old people.

so yes 😁

And Modern Rogue did a video on it and they actually made a batch.

Ketchup packets are fruit you juice. You've never seen a ketchup tree?

Want some Merlot? I make it in the toilet.

Out of necessity

He has a lot of ketching up to do.

If tomatoes are fruit, does that make ketchup a smoothie?

Read a about Jenkum

Toilet wine; splash my gooch

wic used to give massive amounts of juice so much that if you feed it all to the child it would have shit itself to death. had a friend give me many bottles and we made wine out of it, nasty af but it got ya drunk

Kum hehe

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If it has yogurt, definitely.

Such a nurturing and accepting community full of fun and academia.

This is why some of my recent batches havent been working ughhh, 10% juice. Trying to learn how to steep feed with bread yeast has been annoying so far.

Butt hash

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Anyone have a taste test video of fermented ketchup booze? That sounds awful.

Kevjumba

I’ve never fed mine bread yeast but I’m assuming you cook them first and add after it’s cooled?

It tastes pretty nice, it doesn't require sugar though but you can add orange juice to it.

Congratulations you're the last person who didn't know about pruno.

Yeah. I could have worded that better, sorry haha.

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It's not even booze, you need a still to get to that purity. It's more like ketchup wine

I was booze to just mean anything with alcohol in it. I didn't mean hard liquor.

I’ve never had ketchup booze, but I’ve had some made out of oranges and jam packets and shit. Honestly? Not terrible. Taster like spicy orange juice

Boyfriend buys himself MREs and he's never leaving the Navy lol.

Some of them are damn good and they're all really fun for me.

The headline tells you most of what you need to know.

The only thing left over is it needs to ferment in an environment without oxygen. Outside of prison, this would be a demijohn with a bubbler (a tube with some water in so gas under pressure can escape). Inside of prison, you either improvise with what you can get or simply seal in a ziploc bag and remember to let the carbon dioxide escape occasionally.

Quit snitchin.

It’s called hooch

It’s no trouble at all when you have unlimited time to kill and nothing else to do.

Somehow I learned what this was when I was like 15 years old. Haven’t heard of this for years until now lol

It is, but this site is full of kids.

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Did you not realize you can get 5L of boxed wine for like 10 bucks?

I suppose she was doing it more for fun than to simply get drunk lol.

Me and some friends did this in college for the fun of it too, but we used baker's yeast instead of bread.

Making some right now!

We used a whole bottle of ketchup in our last batch, along with hard candies from the nuns and soda for extra sugar.

The reason it's made in the toilet is to hide it. The officers rarely look there...

Yep, I was a paramedic and worked at San Quentin for a short time. Pruno has a distinctive odor.

I've seen all sorts of colors depending on what is used. Yesterday for Christmas someone brought out a few liters that looked similar to coca cola. I'm currently in prison in mexico awaiting trial for having too much marijuana..

Aw dude... Stay safe.

Thanks dude. We had a full scale riot last month. That was pretty crazy, but for the most part everything is fairly safe here.

I'm glad to hear that. I hope you get home soon.

Thanks, next court date looks like early February.

Do you think they're gonna send you home or keep you awhile?

Most likely have to wait for trial, which will be a few months after the next court date. From there I hope to win my case and go home. I was a passenger in a car that the driver hid marijuana in. We were stopped and searched at the boarder. If I do not win, I'm looking at 2.5-3 years. I've already been here 16.5 months

Arg.! That sucks! So reading between the lines it seems like you feel safe there ?

For the most part. I stay out of people's business and don't have debts so that helps. I've been in a couple fights over little things, but there are rules to how long a fight can last and such. The only time I felt there was no safety was during the riot. The place I'm at is considered one of the most dangerous prisons in the world according to the internet. But as long as you don't mess with the wrong people or do the wrong things, you'll be fine.

So how does it taste? Ketchup, candy, and soda does not sound like a winning combination.

Its not very important how it tastes... But to be honest I'm not sure, I tried the pruno once and now I just help make it since other people don't understand the basic science of what's going on. I usually tell people to add soda after I pour them a cup if they have issues with the taste or strength.

We are only learning this today because we don’t talk about pruno no no no

If it wasn’t contraband they could open establishments that sell the drinks collectively known as Pruno Bars.

I understand that if it is the only alcohol you can get that taste wouldn't matter. I was just curious.

Like spoiled wine? Or rotten fruit? Kinda like barf? Very acidic. Very bitter. The goal is to make all the sugar into alcohol so it usually isn't sweet unless you backsweeten it.

So did it have alcohol or did you drink 30% bacteria?

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Love the screen name.

Bread left out in the open air will collect natural yeasts. Not as good as brewer's yeast strains or even baking yeast, but it will work.

It is also worth mentioning that these guys have an extremely low tolerance to alcohol after being locked up for so long, so they don't need much or a high percentage to feel it. Also, the percentage of mental illness and/or mental health meds being taken and also abused impacts the outcome and severity of getting hooch drunk.

The juice typically has sulphites added to kill yeast. This is why if you are going to make hard cider, you have to look around to find cider without sulphites at actual orchards. You won't find it at a grocer.

Alternate toilet?

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