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Subject: Re: question
From: Stevens
Posted: Sat Sep 1. 2001, 18:40 UTC
Followup to: "question"  by Jacky  (Thu Aug 30. 2001, 01:51 UTC)
> how do i make my own alcohol?
> 
> is it going according to the chemistry method! using sugar solution 
> with yeast and suitable temperature and make ethanol out of it! 
> 
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You are basically right.  Yeast chemically changes sugars into alcohol, this 
is called fermentation.  Wine is the easiest alcohol to make. It is as easy as 
mixing some fruit, sugar, yeast, and water and letting it do it's own thing at 
the right temperature. Then draining off the wine. There is alot more to it 
than that, check out this web site. http://winemaking.jackkeller.net/index.asp 
 Here is a site that supplies everything you might need to make wine. 
http://www.nbrewer.com/

I remember a friends dad used to make grape juice wine. He bought grape juice 
in a glass container added alittle sugar and yeast, slipped a baloon over the 
neck and let it brew. When the baloon stopped getting bigger the wine was done.

To make stronger alcohol you need to distill the mixture.  The mixture used to 
do this isn't anything like the wine mentioned above.  Check out this site for 
a moonshine recipe. http://www.ibiblio.org/moonshine/make/howtomake.html  
Heating this mixture to the right temp. will make the alcohol seperate from 
the mash, the tricky part is catching the vapors from the pot.  Alcohol boils 
before water, this is why this is possible.  Home made moonshine causes alot 
of health problems if not done correctly.  There is only a few countries that 
let you distill your own alcohol, I believe New Zealand is one of them. I can 
tell you now, the stuff at the bar tastes a hole lot better than anything you 
can make. 

Stevens


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