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Originally Posted by Rikao4
I'm sure you know what your talking about Red...
you brew...
these clowns stuck with no hooch or skills..
decided to try...
lot's of 'I think you do this'..
and this line goes here...
as hooch was forbidden..
they decided to tough it out...
until they collapsed..
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Wood alcohol is even easier to make. You simply heat it in a closed container until all organics come out and distill those fumes. We made wood alcohol in 8th grade. There is lots of wood out there and they used to distill the fumes from making charcoal.
Anyway....
As a side note, almost every culture has a "moonshine". The primary difference between regular spirits and "moonshines" are that the regular spirits are made from a beer or wine, with all other organics removed. When you ferment beer or wine, the seeds, stems, skin, leaves, mud, etc are all removed before fermentation. This leads to a clean fermentation. If you then distill these, you get spirits.
If you leave in the other junk (leaves, skin, seeds, stems, etc), you get a lot of byproducts. Moonshine, grappa, sweetka, tequila all ferment the other organics along with the regular fermentalbles. That same "twang" in tequila is moonshine, sweetka and grappa.
Not my thing. I prefer a nice XO Martell or High end Scotch...