Post #467041 by tayloroke on Mon, Jul 6, 2009 1:06 AM

So great to see activity in this thread! I saw it about a year ago when I first started flirting with the idea of brewing up some oke. I'm happy to report I have 7 gallons of the stuff boiling up on my stove right now.

A good friend of mine recently did some restoration work on Kaho`olawe and talked to some old timers over there... between what he learned and a very helpful journal paper I managed to find with a bit of googling, we were able to piece together something that, with a little luck, may resemble the real deal.

Our trial run consists of a giant ancient ti root dug up from my friend's yard (the thing was roughly 50 pounds... four feet long and a foot and a half in width), a few stalks of freshly-pilfered sugar cane (from a recent burn out here on Kauai's West side), a pineapple from Big Save and smidge of ginger root. We didn't use all of the ti root of course, just a few pounds of it. I'm about to pitch the yeast, so expect a trip report in a couple weeks here...