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What it
basically is: Well, we will start with a mash. A mash is fermented
sugar. By combining sugar, water and yeast and letting it ferment it
will produce alcohol up to certain percentage. The maximum
percentage you can ferment to is 20% alcohol by volume. But this
does not have a pleasant taste or odor. There are a number of
combinations and things you can ferment, such as molasses which is
used to make rum. You can convert starch to sugar and ferment it, as
in a whisky. So first you have to have a fermented wash (wash is a
combination of sugar water and yeast that has produced alcohol
already).
Next the distillation! This is removing the alcohol/ethanol from the
wash and making a concentrate or concentrating the alcohol into a
more pure state. Such as taking the 20% ABV wash and extracting it
to let's say a 96% ABV or 192 Proof product. Please note that
alcohol or ethanol at this percentage should be cut to consumable
level AKA: 50% or 100 proof with distilled water!
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