ahh okay,cool..just wondering,thought I'd ask since were on the topic of Alcohol,just wanted to see the two major differences from Good old beer & hard stuff of what it takes to brew.
on to the next question!.....If i was stuck on a island what is the best possible way to make alcohol???,I've only heard of one Kind of simple brew that everyone might know.....Some Oranges and Crackers..
juice the oranges,add the crackers in there (since it contains yeast)..put it in a jar of some kind...let it sit there and formant??..
or is there a more simple way?....ps. heard this is how they make it in jail..hehe.
If you're stuck on an island I would find fresh water first - you'll need it to recover from getting your silly @$$ drunk on wild beer. You'll also want to ensure you have shelter, some sort of food supply like mammals and vegetation to nourish you. If after satisfying your basic needs you are bored and want to get drunk I can offer some tips.
Find the most sugary fruit/vegetable possible.. if not I'd find something that was sweet and pray it could ferment. I would avoid anything with a lot of acid like citrus fruits since it will make an ultra sour beer, but you can use it.. Gather a lot since you might as well make as much as possible since it takes the same amount of time either way...
Mix whatever you recover and if you can, boil it down in your handmade boil kettle you constructed of tightly woven branches and twigs to concentrate the sugars and then stick it outside, uncovered, so wild yeast can find it's way in and ferment it for you. If you can't boil it, just stick it in some large container and set it outside uncovered. The beer won't be as strong as if you had boiled it down, but whatever - beggers can't be choosers right?
Once fermentation starts (You'll see some wicked foamy stuff bubbling away at the surface) cover with some sort of dead animal skin you've recovered the night before. Make sure it's clean and well shaved so hair doesn't get in it. Tie it down with some seaweed you found while fishing, poke a small hole to vent CO2 gasses. It's important from this point forward that the mixture not be exposed to too much light - since you're brewing crap with crap you'd at least like as best tasting crap as possible, right? Sun is also damaging to yeast so if your not getting fermentation it's because you left the damn container on the beach again. Tuck it somewhere in the shade, as cool as possible.
Eat the crackers, you need the nourishment. Besides, sticking crackers in it is ridiculous, the yeast has been baked and therefore is no longer viable - if they got fermentation it wasn't because of the crackers but some other reaction be it bacterial or wild yeast.
Prison hooch is also retarded... I don't care how bad jail is, nothing will ever get me to choke down a bunch of rotted fruit juice that's literally swimming with bacterial infection. It'll clean your colon out just fine but it'll taste like your colon every last drop. You'll be lucky if you get drunk.
There's not enough of them in the world.
