GC2ZJN9 Pirateology - Distillation (Traditional Cache) in West Midlands, United Kingdom created by The Grog Crew (now looked after by angellica)

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A cache by The Grog Crew (now looked after by angellica) Message this owner

Hidden : 7/6/2011

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Size: Size: other (other)

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LESSONS IN BECOMING A PIRATE

READ, PRACTICE, LEARN AND BRING YOUR SKILLS TO PIRATEMANIA!

14 in a series of 20

DISTILLATION

Alcoholic beverages all start with yeast and with sugar for the yeast to eat. The sugar for wine usually comes from grapes (although other fruits are used, especially for homemade wine). The sugar for beer usually comes from malted barley (although other grains are also used). The sugar for commercially produced spirits can come from almost anything — corn for bourbon, barley for scotch, rye for rye, sugar cane for rum, and so on. For moonshine, what you want is the cheapest sugar you can find. Henry Morgan found that the cheapest sugar he could find was white granulated sugar. Nowadays, corn syrup might be cheaper.

There are lots of good books on making beer and making wine. Any of them will describe the fermentation process, but very briefly you just:

1. add sugar to the water
2. bring to a boil (to kill any wild yeast in it and make it easy to dissolve the sugar)
3. wait until the temperature comes down to 110°F (so you don't kill your own yeast)
4. add yeast
5. wait

We'll not tell you how to make a still here, but essentially its a pot with a lid with a hole in it, a tube closely fit to that hole running to a jar, and something to cool that tube.

Many thanks to Mandarin Lake for placing the original cache.

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gevnatyr bs cbfg

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A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
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N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)

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