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Supercharge your compost pile's bacteria with a "Drunken Composting " mixture using beer, cola, & ammonia in a 20 gallon hose end sprayer! It turns grass clippings & leaves into usable garden soil in 10-14 days. Your garden vegetables will thrive in this! Use it as a mulch later in the hot growing season AND add it to your garden beds each year! It also makes great compost tea and will feed your plants just what they need.
Note: If you're composting hot or high nitrogen items like chicken manure, it will still take a bit longer to render it usable due to the high nitrogen content, but will certainly help break it down too (you could skip the ammonia in THAT case). Thank you for watching!
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Just add yeast and lots of water. Use dry Instant yeast that you bake with. You can get it in bulk (1 pound vacuum sealed bags) at most restaurant supply stores or a case of 20 lbs (20 bags) for less than $50 - a bargain if you have huge compost bins as I do. This is also the same stuff that's in RID-X Septic Tank Treatment. Yeast breaks down organic materials quickly. So pour some down your sink or flush it down your toilet once a month too. Worth buying it by the case just for that.
You don't need anything else special for your compost pile. You don't need the soda or ammonia. Green plant materials (like grass) already have plenty of natural sugars and nitrogen (ammonia). And if you add more ammonia you can make it smell. Grass normally does not smell bad when it breaks down (as he claims) if it's getting enough air. If his grass clippings smell while composting that means the pile is not getting enough air.
How to get air into your grass clippings? Well, you have to either toss and mix it often (too often to be practical) or you need to add some browns like dry dead leaves, small twigs, shredded paper and cardboard. Adding different shapes also helps bring air into a compost pile. Since cut grass is basically all the same shape, it doesn't get aerated enough. Shredded corrugated cardboard is fantastic for this purpose because it has little air channels in it that bring air into the compost pile.
If you add ammonia to your grass clippings alone it sure will smell like ammonia if it doesn't get enough air circulation (be careful with that). This is also why you don't want to pee on your grass clippings alone, though urine may be helpful on brown dry compost (like wood chips, twigs, paper, cardboard, and dry leaves).
Thank you now I understand the purpose of the browns and mixing them up and chopping up
i put beer in my compost and now the compost pile is staggering all over the garden singing " i beg your pardon, i didn't promise you a rose garden "
🤣🤣🤣 I🤣 belted out🤣a wheeze laugh!!! So funny!! Hahahaha
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Mine's knocking on the kitchen door demanding for more beer!
Omg...that was a good laugh lol
Hahahaha! You all are too much.. :D
Cooked up a batch of compost in nine days in my compost tumbler using this recipe. I was weeding under the tumbler and found all my worms enjoying the liquid dripping to the ground. Next batch I will take pictures because nobody believes this works so quickly. Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge.
I'm so glad you found it helpful. Thanks.
Can you compost on the ground? Those worms will break it down in a flash.
@@patriotfarms8249 yes, he said it's best. I been doing it on the ground for 3 years with no issues
I enjoyed this video, being a composter myself. Just recently to the game starting just 2 years ago when I decided to NOT throw away some 60+ bags of leaves that my trees bless me with every fall and instead use them to help me turn this very packed clay soil into something things can grow in. About 2 years later, this harvest is astonishing with me pulling at least a dozen tomatoes out of the garden a day, zucchini, cabbage, cauliflower, artichokes...you name it I can grow it. And last year, my first year growing, my cucumber plant was the only thing that produced anything...all others I lost to insects or did not produce. I am convinced it is the compost.
And its easy. Shred the leaves, use more grass than leaves but keep your pile as close to 3-4 feet cubed. Wet it down with water, or this mix, it doesn't matter. You can urinate on it too, it still works as long as the dampness isn't too drenched or too dry. Go for damp (for those that don't know what that is, STOP asking questions and experiment). For those that are asking how much of this and how much of that, STOP! Try it. IF it works, great. If it doesn't, adjust. It really is that simple. It is so simple, it happens BY ITSELF in nature. All by itself, no one needs to monitor it. So you can't mess it up unless you really try or do something really dumb. Mix your pile and keep it wet (not so wet that it would wring out, there is my hint) and watch for it to heat up. If your pile gets over 100, great. the more greens you put in, the hotter it gets. You want to cool it down, what would you add more of? You guessed it, more browns. If you turn it every 3 days or so, it gets aerated and goes faster. Don't ask me if you can turn it every 2 1/2 days instead if you are using mineral water and also wear women's underwear. Like others have said, it's not rocket science.
For everyone that said this didn't work for me, figure out why. Not hot enough? Not enough greens. Too hot? Too much greens. Ending up as a pile of half broken down grass? Not enough what, guess? Right browns. Its so simple it HAPPENS BY ITSELF. Stop overthinking everything and just do it. You don't need finished compost to add in, but it helps. Why? Because the bugs are already in there. Was that too hard to figure out? Wow, we overthink everything.
patronising, much?
+superfishle I see it as a lot of encouragement with a little sarcasm mixed in for fun. My comment detailed my experience with learning it, as I said I was brand new to this just a short time ago. So I was trying to encourage all those that overthink to do instead of think and think along the way. Patronizing? I don't see it.
Howie F you encouraged me, you know how stupid I've been feeling when I just recently realized I've been going to extreme effort, and hard work getting rid of my leaves, yard waste off my property, it's so extreme I have around 7 bags sitting in my garage from last season. I could of been making dirt verses all that headache. Everything is made just perfect, it makes so much sense. love the sarcasm lol
tammy it is not dirt it is soil. there is a big difference.
yeah i did not collect leaves last fall because i am surrounded by trees and figured i could wait till early spring to get them. picked up quite a few but a lot had already started breaking down and being wet was harder to get them off the ground.
you can bet your boots this year when they drop all over my yard i am going to get out the leaf blower, suck them up and keep for later use. i live on a dead end road with trees everywhere so i may even hit up some of my neighbors for leaves. if i see bags of them sitting in their yard as i have in the past you can be sure i will check to see if i can have them. it will save them from having to haul them off and will help me out as well. win win
paul k its actually compost hes making lol
Getting ready to try gardening and so I've been watching a lot videos lately before getting started. This is one of the most helpful videos I've come across! You get to the point. You show how to do it. You say why you do it. You don't waste your (and our) time. Too many gardening people making videos where they go off on story hour about things that have nothing to do with what people are looking for. Thanks!
amen!
Ryan Kuehl I completely agree, too many people love the sound of their own voice.
These people get it how the "story time" is so stupid and a day waster
Surely marmite would work ?
amen
I have used the organic version of this methods--blackstrap molasses, brewer's yeast, and alfalfa meal for the sugar, yeast, and nitrogen, and it works famously. My husband bought some 55-gallon plastic trash cans and drilled dozens of holes for drainage.
If he remembers to turn them at the right time, it takes exactly 14 days to have usable compost. Worms find their way into it and add their castings, but we found that you have to leave the top off the cans so that methane gas can escape. We put a sheet of cardboard over the top and keep it wet. The worms think it is an ice cream party.
In 6 years, I think I have linked to this video over 100 times.
What is the ratio of molasses, yeast and alfalfa meal to water? Can give some detail as how you do it? Definitely interested in the organic version! Thanks!
@@JW45174, we just eyeball it depending on the size of the grass clippings. We have a rather large lot, so we only collect grass clippings for the back yard. One mowing will fill up the two 55-gallon trash cans. My husband takes a plastic 4-cup container and puts equal amounts of yeast and alfalfa, so that would be 2 cups of both. He adds blackstrap molasses to a bucket of water, and he doesn't ever have the same amount twice. We also only use rainwater from our rain barrels, except in long droughts. Then, we use water that comes through a water filter that we buy from Boogie Brew that connects to an outdoor garden hose so as not to use chlorinated water.
Good luck with it, and don't worry too much about amounts. I am sure we probably use more of each ingredient than we need to use. Oh, and if you have deer in your area, they treat alfalfa meal like kids treat ice cream and cookies.
Instructions unclear, I woke up hung over and covered in mud leaves and grass, no compost to be found...? My wife now forbids gardening in the house....
I thought I was the only one..🤣
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around 6:09, "sun STOPS the cooking process" sumpin got cooked
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A tried and true method ... works really REALLY well for me.. couldn't be much easier
Thank you so much responding to my questions as quickly as you did!! I'm starting my very first compost pile and your "Drunken Composting" makes a lot of sense to me. Thanks again!!!!
I sit my browns off to the side of where I compost (mainly leaves from the fall) and work that pile into the fresh greens when I start a new compost pile. Usually, before the end of spring, I'll have all the leaves worked into freshly completed compost.
Once I'm out of those browns, I'll use layers of the new compost to mix in with the grass that I have ;)
Great tutorial for quick composting! And super easy to follow! Subbed.
I started composting late, end of November, and needed to kickstart my composting, since here in central FL we can start planting in February. Without having any grass clippings, I've used garden waste, food waste, and leaves from a neighbor. I put this stuff on each layer, and even after 1 week, I had steam and heat. I'm now about 4 rounds of layers in, and when I turn it, so much heat and steam come up, and the smell is great! I will actually have compost in time...thank you so much!! I also appreciate your approach, since you're basically using chemistry to do the work, and I'm a chemistry teacher!
do you have ant problems in central FL? I'm just starting to garden here in SE FL & have been bitten a lot by ants - I'm concerned that the sugar in this method will just draw more of them
@@pamelanaylor6283 I have not seen any ants.
@@pamelanaylor6283 Fire ants! Anytime you put scraps in there they are going to come to dinner! Get some fire ant killer and don't put it directly on any mounds you see, put it near them. If you put it ON them, they think they are under attack and start moving the poison away from any mounds. If you put it near them, they treat it like food.
I had a pile of composting leaves but I didn't know you suppose to cover it. and the birds love my composting area. They were always digging in it. Now I know why. Thanks for that info. I'll go ahead and cover it now.
You just saved me a huge headache of work between starting my garden as well as getting rid of my leaves. Thank you!
Something I have been doing for several years is using the lawn mower to clean up the leaves in the fall. I'll let the grass grow a little longer then mow with the grass catcher. Leaves are chopped and mixed with grass clippings. It's a big time saver.
Thank you for experimenting, working out the details and especially for teaching those of us out in the world that didn't know about this and how easy it really is to have fresh garden vegetables all growing season and beyond. I for one learned something new and valuable. Keep up the great works please don't stop teaching us.
Hi there I have tried your method this morning, so sad to see a good beer go but can't wait to see result in two weeks.thanks for the videos
Ammonia is just a liquid form of nitrogen. It replaces that which is lost in the composting process.
In a thunderstorm, when lightening streaks across the sky, the nitrogen in the air is actually converted to ammonia and falls to the ground, so it's natural and safe for the pile.
Reaganite71 not at all necessary when you use bedding from a farm animal shelter.
Manure, urine, straw is mixed together and creates the perfect balance to percolate the compost pile. ... and it's FREE!
Any farmer or rancher will give you as much as you can haul away!🤣😂
There is usually a huge pile of it behind the barn in varying stages of decomp.
Be careful though, the deeper you dig the hotter the pile! The HEAT will literally singe your arm hairs!!
When we began our organic garden "experiment" in 1986, we dug 2' down into Sugar Sand within the perimeter of our intended raised beds.
(I called a horse ranch and asked if we could have some manure. Fellow said, "There's a huge old pile behind the barn. Take as much as you want!"
We filled that 2' with the horse manure from an old pile where some was well decomposed to some FRESH.
Mixed together as it was gathered & tossed, the slow, underground decomposing process kept the soil warm and nutrient dense while the crops above were growing in rich, composted humus.
Setting up those beautiful gardens was truly the most amazing life experience I have ever had.
The produce outgrew all of the seed catalog predictions, the plants were huge and stellar! Whether it was okra or daikon radish, we ate it raw from the plant and the flavor was beyond amazing!
I followed Rudolf Steiner's BioDynamic Agriculture Method, and planted by his calendar.
Phenomenal!!
I went to find ammonia all I could find is lemon scented can we use that?
well, you'll also notice that anywhere your dog likes to pee has the healthiest grass. and ammonia is a waste product of our bodies. if it was horribly toxic, we wouldn't produce so much of it. and fish wouldn't survive in fishtanks with any amount of it either.
Ty. Cheaper than buying blood or none meal
I knew it seemed to me like grass an well everything seemed like it had a boost of nitrogen after a t storm. 👍👍 thanks for that tidbit. Im a mariner with not much of green thumb,but i love trying and learning something beneficial to all.
Cheers mate
I am going to try your method. I would love to see your compost after about 3 or 4 months. I guess what I mean is what it looks like the following spring after it completely cooks and cools. I have a tumbler with some leaves from rose bushes and green grass and some food scraps. I tossed about a handfull of compost into it. I tumbled it about 3 to 4 times a week for awhile. I had to move away but came back and just looked at it to see. It was full of worms and was some of the most beautiful soil I have ever seen. I can't wait to try your method. Thank you so much my friend. Have a beautiful day. 😃
Genius!! I do wish you had a method for smaller yards. But I’m going to try your Drunken Composting!
EXACTLY what I needed. Putting this recipe in my gardening recipe box tonight. TY Soo much
Now I know what to use the crappy bud beer people leave at my house
You drink that stuff you will grow a dress!
Especially in 2023😂
I think the key to your compost was the mini tiller i applied the beer,cola,nh3 tonic, to every layer,turn it after 7 days, but it didnt break down as fast as yours. Its been 2 weeks BUT BOY!! that thing is a miniature Mt. Vesuvius so thats a good sign. GREAT INFO best composting i have seen on youtube NO exaggeration! .. I love all your vids👌 ! hope u and your family have a wonderful harvest. Stay vibrant!! ^_^
Same here
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Taking my compost pile out for happy hour tomorrow! Awesome video, thanks! 🌱🌱🌱🌱
Thank you so much for this helpful video ! I hope you have a beautiful , productive garden this year !
THANK YOU SO MUCH Mr.REAGANITE..FOR POSTING THIS VIDEO..I ENJOY READING ALL COMMENTS AND YOUR ANSWER,IN THAT" I LEARNED A LOT.
Thanks for watching.
eric white The amonnia is NH3, N for Nitrogen (a fertilizer)
As long as you don't overload, it's safe.
yea,yea,yeah, good video. , excellent audio , quick and painless presentation and you stick to the viedo' so title in your narrative
i do this almost every year this guy is the best i promise u
I just started gardening vegetables & fruits and the drunken composting sounds great.
Ty for the post. You make it less complicated than anybody else on the net. Much appreciated.
BEST DAMN VIDEO, EVER. You explained everything that I needed to hear and I'm grateful for your time and effort. Thank-you.
Hillbilly's get excited when they find a harder way to do something.
Good tip thanks. We used to make clay for pottery with beer. It makes really plastic like great clay like its a thousand years old.
Started a pile of leaves and fresh green grass with the Drunken formula last Friday. Can't wait to see what it looks like this week. Thanks!
THANK YOU FOR SHARING YOUR VIDEO, I ALWAYS DID MY COMPOSTING THE OLD HARD WAY! BUT AFTER YOUR GREAT ADVICE I CAN GET STRAIGHT INTO MY GARDENING.
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I followed your receipt and added another ingrediant 2 Tbs. Of molasses to the spray bottle and shake. Then to each layer of compost I scattered a cup of Plant Tone this made it complete compost in 10 days. Plant tone carry beneficial bacteria, this inoculates the pile plus adds extra fertilizer of the organic type.
FYI--- I tried this method and I am totally pleased ! The compost smells of life ! My many thanks for your time and care for gardening !!!!!
Love the shirt! I got one that looks just like it. Glad to see some good ole Arkansas boys on here teaching people stuff. You would be surprised how many of us i've come across on here
Great video. I’m excited to see it after 7 days to turn it. I’m on day 2 now and I touched my tarp at 6:30 this morning and it was good and warm. I’ve also created a second pile of mulched leaves and I subbed some of my fresh brewed urine for the ammonia to test it 😂Thanks for taking time to share your knowledge.
drunken compost-3oz of beer, 3oz of cola, 2 ounces of ammonia mixed in five gallon of water then just add it to a sprayer if u dnt have the 20 gallon hose end sprayer he have
Its a 20:1 mixture. Us poor kids using an old 1 gal milk jug for our girls need to just use an ounce and a half of tonic to a jug of water. Thats 1 full shot glass and one half shot glass of tonic to the ole milk jug -o- water. Shake well and water liberally! Use your snout to find it in 3 months.
This REALLY works. 2 day ago, I used a 35 gallon trash can, added 4 ounces of ammonia, one pack of yeast, and 8 tablespoons full of sugar and 35 gallons of water. The compost is an unbelievable 175' F. The yeast is probably dead (due to the high temperature) I didn't use cola because I had none on hand, and I didn't use beer.....(alcohol abuse). THIS REALLY WORKS, IT REALLY DOES WORK. Good luck to all, and happy composting !!!!!!
Hi Thomas
I am curious to know what else did you add into the trash can? It seems that you have all liquids with the yeast and sugar. What did you do with the contents?
Thanks
Craig
I miss this guy, he was the reason I got into Gardening.
Anyone know what happened to this amazing youtuber?
UPDATE: Eleven days ago, I started two piles using this method and it seems to be working great. The piles are breaking down beautifully and smells like earth. I'm going to mulch my tomato's with it in a few days. The easiest compost method I've ever tried.
Excellent as always!
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Great video on composting.
This was awesome!! Out of all the composing techniques I'v seen,this looks like the one I will try!! Since I like to fish,I'm also adding fish to my compose now!!
Thanks for this vid! I am building a compost bin, and I will be using this method.
Hi Mr R:
Thanks for your suggestions.
Will the tonic also work on a tumbler??
Appreciate your point of view
I'm definitely going to try this! Ammonia, whoda thunk it? We've just always gone to the fertilizer plant & got a bucket full of NH4. I guess we're lucky in that we use an older chipper/shredder for compost mixing. We've also got compost bins which are awesome! Thanks for the info
Urine is full of ammonia and plants love it in small quantities. Drink the Beer and pee in a bucket. The plant win you win everybody wins.
Very good information thank you. What I made is leafs grass all chopped with wood chips on top of river rocks during fall and during the spring I have loads of compost. I'll add the beer and cola now
omg thank you so much for your video. I was at a loss for what to do with the sod I had ripped up for my garden. Headed out to poor one of my beers and a soda on the pile of sod and cover. :)
Chopped up grass is the best mulch you can get... and it's free! (well, not taking the time to mow it and the cost gasoline into account.) Four inches of that in your garden beds and you won't have to worry about any weeds coming up because it suppresses all the weeds. (Okay, maybe one or two will crop up, but that's better than a whole bedfull.) By the end of your gardening season, the grass would've also rotted down into the bed and turned into soil. So you get two benefits: mulch and soil.
Been doing this for 14 years now.
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@ ANK H ive been doing that method for 3 yrs now. I have a 25,000 sq ft bermuda lawn here in gerogia. In the winter months during nice days I start dropping my mower blade to scalp the bermuda down to about 1 inch. I take these clippings and use it as a mulch on a big steep hill I am making a big huge bed out of. Works awesome!! If weeds do pop through they are super easy to pull because of how thick the clippings are. Under the clippings the soil is a super deep black color. I am in the red clay region too
My Dad gardened for many years and that was his method. Grass clippings and leaves. In the town I grew up in the borough would schedule leaf pickups and you could put the leaves out in a pile or in bags. My Dad would go around and swipe people's leaves to use in the garden. At the end of the season he'd till it all in and then when spring rolled around he'd till it again before he'd work it and he always had great soil.
Instead of ammonia, I let my chickens make their own contributions
Thank u for demonstrating this! I needed this refresher! 😊
I posted here before and I'll say it again. This method REALLY works. I tried it last year and I had compost in 14 days. 13 days ago, I started two piles. The very next day the temp was 150 degrees in each pile. Today, 13 days later, the temp is still at 110 degrees.
If you follow the recipe, it will work.
I bet if you do everything exactly the same as you are now, but leave out the beer, cola and ammonia, it will work just as well.
A fake owl from Home Depot has kept birds away from my planter-compost tower.
I say drink the beer and feed the rabbits, they make the compost
Great video!. Simple to the point and answered all of my questions!... just sent the hubby out to get me some beer LOL
Looks perfect for those who keep worms for fishing or using castings. Great information, thank you so much. I'm looking at doing worm beds and want to use the best materials out there for the job.
Drunken compost. LOL Love the mental image that gives me. :)
Praxxus55712 I have to laugh ding the random clicks on TH-cam videos and scrolling comments while they play and found an old one of yours. Have you ever tried this method ray?
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Couldn't you drink a couple of the beers first and substitute the ammonia with urine? I'm gonna try it. Thanks for sharing your method!
Agree.
Urine is a great source of nitrogen and other fertilising elements.
Why waste money on buying Ammonia.
It is sold as a cleaner - unlikely to be very pure, probably made in a huge industrial process and could have contaminants.
No need to put that on food plants.
George Gibson I think I'm also going to substitute the soda and beer with some sugar, yeast and water.
Billdo O'Reilly This was my idea.. only I have my own sourdough starter that's almost a year old and I use it to cook many things with including home made bread. It rises well so I know it's very alive with wild yeasts and bacteria that make it sour. This mixed with some extra flour instead of sugar (yeast can feed on sugars and starches), and human urine, should, in theory, be able to pull this off the same way the premise of this video did.
Jonathan Deik I started out with a big pile of leaves this year. I did the urine and yeast/sugar water months ago shortly after seeing this. I keep it loosely covered with a blue side up tarp and keep it moist, it gets good sun. I feed large amounts of green plant material like bolted lettuce and grass clippings to the center of it and it eats it in less than a week. I ended up using about half the pile to fill up the bottom of a couple raised beds. The leaf compost that's left is turning into very rich soil/compost. The leaves seem to take awhile to break down vs. grass clippings which the leaf pile eats fast.
I've also used the yeast and sugar in some compost tea a few times along with other stuff. I add the yeast and sugar water after the compost etc. has been brewing in it for a few days. Then I let the tea brew for 12-24 hours with the sugar/yeast and then water the plants with it.
Jonathan Deik Also even though it's kind of a hot pile, it's still full of earthworms. I think the worms do most of the work.
Good tip about microwaving egg shells before composting! Will definitely try 😊
Have been using this method a couple of years now. Works great! I have made a couple of changes in the ingredients since I didn't have beer or cola around the house. I made a video showing how I do it and just wanted to say I appreciate the information about this compost method. This is my gardening/chicken channel and I did give you credit for the drunken compost method. Have a blessed day!
I wanted to watch your video but I don't see any videos on your channel. What is your recipe?
It is advised not to use "light" beer, however. Use regular beer.
They are changing from the layer system to mixing all the ingredients together in the right ratio for better results. Even Organic Gardening Magazine now recommends mixing everything up, rather than layering.
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I am pretty sure commercial beer does not have any yeast left when it is sold, it is filtered out before bottling. If your recipe calls for yeast try a micro brew it usually has active yeast. But if this works Great!
What about just buying yeast instead of wasting a more exensive beer?
I just started my pile yesterday using this method and in less than 24 hours, my pile is at 150 degrees. I used grass clippings and straw I mulched with mulching lawn mower.
A great addition is wood ash. If you have a wood stove a fire pit or a wood burning grill it puts in even more of a variety of nutrients that plants need
I thought he was going to drink the beer and coke and then pee on the compost.
Haven’t thought of beer yet, but I’m really anti the cola. Rather mix some molasses with a bit of water to mix in. Lots of micro-minerals in there
Thank you, I'll try that today after it stops raining.
Just saw this and I'm going to try it today. I'm starting my first veggie garden this year, been super busy digging up garden plots. My soil is clay so I have a lot of work to do to get the beds ready for planting but I've got 11 oak trees in the yard and tons of leaves still from the fall, they're going to be a great source of soil this summer. Thanks for sharing this idea.
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Most commercial beer is filtered and pasteurized. If you're looking for live yeast, keystone light isnt the beer you want. Why not just buy some yeast? If you really want it to come from beer, something bottle conditioned would be much better, although I'd hate to waste a good craft beer or a homebrew on it. I'd recommend buying some liquid ale yeast, making a starter and using that. Just google how to make a yeast starter.
Hint, Drink beer FIRST!!!
Just add yeast and lots of water. Use dry Instant yeast that you bake with. You can get it in bulk (1 pound vacuum sealed bags) at most restaurant supply stores.
Escape From NY this sounds doable. Any tips on the ratio of yeast yo water? Thanks :)
looking for live yeast ? you find it in home baked bread
@@witeklonski2546 Baked bread contains dead yeast carcasses.
Dare I ask... how did you come up with this combination? Just curious about the thought process that led to this
Thanks for sharing! I can't wait to try this!
Used/modified your recipe some and put in on my pile (leaves,grasses, veg/fruit scraps) 4ft high 3ft wide circle cage and my pile is 152 degrees ready to feed the garden when temp calms down.
I have a large barrel compost tumbler, can I use this concept in there and still get good results?
So sad. This video popped up in my feed today and I got so excited! I thought Reaganite71 had put out a new video.
I really miss his personality and information. I hope the rumors are wrong about him being sick and/or passing. He basically changed my gardening life with his excellent videos. I think of him every time I spank my tomatoes.
He’s alive and well and posting new vids under the name tiki71. He posted a video explaining where he’s been
This is a really cheap and awesome way to make compost! Thanks a ton.
Interesting tutorial. I like the idea, will have to test it out!
OK OMG... THIS is soooo interesting...
I'll bet you could use apple juice, or something similar in place of cola and urine in place of the household ammonia.
Nice video..
Yes I am thinking Urine and Molasses or sugar would be just perfect.
Beer has had all the yeast filtered out of it thats why its clear.
Urine is actually awesome for compost because it's rich in nitrogen. But you should let a beer sit overnight before using it on compost so all the alcohol has a chance to evaporate.
I tried your method and it really works! Thanks for the awesome video.
Well done sir. Thanks for sharing your knowledge!
Perhaps four ounces of molasses diluted in 8 ounces of water (to make up for a 12 oz. can of cola) would work fine. You wouldn't want thick molasses added directly to the sprayer since it might clog up.
Good video. WOOO PIG SOOIE
I'm excited to try this! Thanks
If you run out of leaves, you can take your junk mail and shred it into little pieces and throw those in. That is what I have been doing for the past 10 years or so. But, you don't want to shred anything glossy. or the see through windows on envelopes. I put them through a Kemp shredder with leaves, grass, branches, newspapers, and I don't actually layer it because it is all together and after my pile heats up, I shoot water into the pile under fairly high pressure and the pile heats up again. I try to rake a little off the top that didn't mulch first go around and put it under the pile, or beside it and start another. Works for me every time and it is dirt within two months. I don't have to burn many papers anymore. They are mulch!!! I like your ideas. Keep up the good work!
I used cola and ammonia, as I didn't have any beer, and after 2 weeks its breaking down nicely
bowler8 interesting.
the beer really does not do anything, no live yeast in Keystone light
The nitrogen of the grass needs the carbon of the leaves, to create a well-balanced compost.
Nice........I just put all my grass clippings around my comfrey plants they grew 5 ft tall its crazy.I'm going to try your composting method next free high grade garden soil made from what normally is waste sounds like a great idea and fast too thanks man.
I got a whole bunch of free beer and soda doing a property cleanout at a bar that had been closed for years.
My recipe has been to mix 2 24 oz skunk beers, one 20 oz Pepsi Fire mixed in about 4 gallons of water and pee on the pile before applying, stir with a pitch fork once a week. I get similar results composting a mix of grass clippings, the hay from the chicken coop, and a weeks worth of charcoal ash.
Fascinating! I would use urine instead of ammonia. Thank you.
Filbert66 his ammonia looked pretty yellow just saying
Yes drink the Beer and pee in a bucket everybody wins.
Not sure what happened. I didn't have success with it. I think my Drunken Composting must of went to AA.
seacruse to me all it looks like is mixed up not broken down
LOL
Nice video. Very informative. Your process really speeds up the process.
COOL,...Drunken composting but i'll be trying this out over here!! Thumbs up, subbed and thankin' ya for the COOL Info! :)
I just did a fertility test on my completed drunken compost ... I could grow a bus in this stuff. I'm super excited. Starting in on another round of compost!
Can you use yeast instead of beer? Will it have the same effect if you activate the yeast with warm water or warm the cola?
It looks interesting. I'll give it a go and see if I can get the same results. Thank you for sharing.
I haven't tried drunken composting yet... I did try dead heading my roses after a few beers earlier this evening... wouldn't recommend it, I lost a bud or two...
Excellent video!
Your lawn is better off if you use a mulching blade on your lawn mower and leave them on the lawn. Compost leaves and other refuse instead.
But, if you must compost grass, this is a great method and is promoted by that garden guru, Jerry Baker, I saw years ago. Another thing to do is be sure to build your pile at least three feet high, preferably five feet to begin with, because it will shrink down to about three feet quickly. This way you get it to adequately heat up and kill weed seeds, and when you turn it, it will heat up again. Great video though. Good job.
You could even use shredded up newspaper ;)
as brown matter?
Clover and grass clippings is great. High moisture content makes it cook fast. Leaving plenty for the bees though.