The production ofalcohol is relatively simple. Water, sugar and yeast combined will produce alcohol Add a fourth component, a flavoring agent, and your getting close to a drinkable beverage.
Recipe for corn liquor:
6 lbs of sugar
3 lbs cracked corn
5 gal good water
1 packet of wine or sherry yeast.
Boil water and sugar and corn and pitch yeast when cool. This should be done in a closed top fermentation container. When the fermentation has run its course, you will have a 12 to 15% alcohol product.
Now the hard part. To make whiskey you would run this product through a still.
Distillation of alcohol is a federal offence
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Why yes. Rain is a good thing.
Distilled rye.
Whiskey can be made from malted or unmalted barley, oat, rye, corn, or wheat, depending on where it's produced from.
They were protesting a tax on whiskey. Because of the remote area of the country they lived in it was easier to make whiskey from their corn and transport the whiskey than it was to transport the corn itself. But then the tax would have cut into their profit. Edit: In short, the Whiskey Rebellion.
By distilling a fermented mixture of water and a grain, such as barley, corn or rye.
The federal government had placed a tax on corn (which is used to make whiskey), so the farmers who relied on the production of the crop for their livelihood rebelled.
Yes it can
Bourbon is a type of whiskey that is made primarily from corn and aged in new charred oak barrels. It is different from other types of whiskey, such as Scotch or Irish whiskey, because of its specific production process and the use of corn as the main ingredient.
It's a song -- it's "JIMMY cracked corn, and I don't care." It is a nonsense line about a guy named Jimmy -- he cracked some corn (broke open the kernels to make grits or bread or something) and you don't care that he did.
Bourbon is a type of whiskey that is made primarily from corn and aged in new charred oak barrels. It is different from other types of whiskey, such as Scotch or Irish whiskey, because of its specific production process and the use of corn as the main grain.
The Whiskey Rebellion was a tax protest in the USA from 1791-1794. Farmers had been using left over corn and grain to make whiskey and then use it as a medium of exchange. They were forced to pay a new tax on this and many resisted.
Bourbon is a type of whiskey, but not all whiskey is bourbon. Bourbon is a specific type of American whiskey that is made primarily from corn and aged in new charred oak barrels.