Newspaper Article 1994 – ‘Cosmic coil’ helps make apple beer

‘Cosmic coil’ helps make apple beer

By Geoff Mercer
Staff reporter, Hastings

A low-alcohol beer made from apple juice passed through a “cosmic coil” could bridge the gap between real beer and soft drinks, Hawke’s Bay orchardist Peter Boyce says.

Mr Boyce, who says he is also a healer, mixes one part of apple juice with three of water and passes it through a specially wound copper tubing coil.

This imparts “cosmic vibration” to it, which induces carbon dioxide to form in the liquid. After 24-hours in a fermentation container, a dry tasting beer is the final product.

Mr Boyce, Chrystall Rd, said that by manipulating the water-to-juice ratio and fermention[fermentation] time it was possible to make a methode champenoise-style product.

The beer would not only be cheap to make – 2000 litres could be made from a $50 bin of reject fruit – it contained medicinal properties.

Mr Boyce said he suffered from chemical poisoning through exposure to herbicides and an industrial product when he was a builder. He has a 10-hectare orchard on which he has practised organic techniques since February, 1993.

In the course of seeking help for his chemical poisoning, which he said had been acknowledged by the Accident Compensation Corporation, he found he had a gift for healing.

He started making medicines by imparting cosmic vibrations to juice from apples and other fruits and vegetables. Different shaped coils worked for different products, and the shape of the one he used to make beer was the key to the process.

He asked the Herald-Tribune not to photograph coils on display.

The process of making his medicines relied on the production of a small amount of alcohol, which acted as a preservative.

He said he now made his own orchard sprays from vegetable extracts and apple juice to control pests and diseases.

The apple beer, which he is calling 3PPP for now, would fill the market vacuum between carbonated soft drinks and full-strength beer.

Thirty friends and acquaintances had tasted the 150 litres brewed so far. It would appeal to women, many of whom did not enjoy the strength of beer currently available.

“It’s a health product, not only a beer. It contains life forces.

“It’s not the taste that will draw you back to it. It’s what your brain tells you that’s in it.”

Mr Boyce said he wanted to sell the technology involved in the process rather than manufacture the beer himself.

“I’ve got other things I want to do. I want to heal people.”

Photo caption – Mr Boyce pours a glass of 3PPP apple beer. The copper coil is in the steel cylinder.