2006-10-11 16:47:49 · 5 answers · asked by sam y 1 in Food & Drink ➔ Beer, Wine & Spirits
here ya go.... good luck!!!
http://homedistiller.org/wash-grain.htm
2006-10-11 17:25:04 · answer #1 · answered by marnibrown1 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Sounds like youv'e had your fair share already. lol it is pretty basic if you just want to make whisky, but if you want to make something that taste like Jack Daniels or Jim Beam you are not going to be able too. All it consist of is grains, water, sugar and yeast as is pretty much all hard liquors. They all just have a twist to there craft. If you add into a gallon bucket some ground up grains like. barley, rye, or corn and fill with water and add alot of sugar like as much as you do water. Mix well and add brewer's yeast or really just a pack of plain old bread yeast will work. Let this concoction set a couple of weeks covered with plastic and you would end up with grain alcohol and water with a proof of about 50 so like 25% alcohol. Then you could like freeze it and take the ice of the top to concentrate. This is basic alcohol. vodka, the difference with something like Jack or Beam is they take The alcohol and put it in Oak Barrels that have been charred. that's what gives it it's color and flavor. Scotch is the exactly the same thing as Whiskey it is just made in Scotland and they have a very old special way of turning the barrels and store them longer and in high altutude buildings. Boubon is also the same except it is made in Bourbon County Kentucky. So like if you want to make some simple home liquor just take some juice like grape or Peach but use 100% juice add about as much sugar as the juice add a pack of yeast. Put the mixture in a jar or 2 liter and put a balloon on the top, and when the balloon inflates and then goes back down on it's own. You are ready for some pretty stout wine. It will be cloudy unless you Filter it through some cheese cloth or something.
2006-10-12 04:42:17 · answer #2 · answered by GeneralYoChicken 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
You take malted barley, mash it in hot water to convert starches to sugars. Add yeast to eat the sugars and make alcohol...it basically becomes like beer. Distill the beer once to make what is called "low wines." Distill the low wines and divide the first portion, middle portion, and last portion. Keep the middle, add the first and the last to the low wines of the next batch...repeat.
The middle part or "heads" is what is put in barrels and aged. After aging, it's bottled and sold.
2006-10-12 03:38:24 · answer #3 · answered by Trid 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Sounds like you've already been drinking whiskey my friend.
wishky: a wish from a Russian.
2006-10-11 23:50:47 · answer #4 · answered by freetodervish 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Whishky ??? you are slurring you're questions, CUT OFF TIME!!!!
2006-10-11 23:54:24 · answer #5 · answered by boxer 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋