What is moonshine in reality? This is a very strong liquid based on self-made alcohol, obtained from fermentation of root crops and cereals.
If you read this masterpiece by Ilf and Petrov, then remember that Bender for two hundred rubles offered them to make moonshine from wheat, the recipe of which they then quickly recorded.
How to make moonshine? This business is not easy. It requires attention, patience, adherence to the recipe and technology.
Selective quality raw materials.
In our case, this is wheat, since we will make moonshine from wheat.
Wheat seed should be of high quality. It is germinated. The result is malt. Biocatalysts of malt turn starch into sugar. And then sugar turns into alcohol.
For the preparation of wheat malt it is soaked in wooden utensils. The grain should swell. The water in the dishes should change every eight hours.
Next, the swollen grain is laid out in a thin layerin a cool place, covering it with a cloth soaked in water. Five days it is aired, and in the next five days, air is cut off. So begins the production of home-brewed homemade products.
On the tenth day of germination of grain are formedthe sprouts and the roots attached to each other. Malt is ready. It is washed and dried. The drying temperature should not be within 400C. Then grind to flour to make malted milk.
Malt milk is obtained by adding todry malt hot water and two hours of its exposure. Then add boiling water again. Stirring, the resulting mass is defended for an hour, and then diluted with cold water and yeast is added. The resulting mixture should be held in a warm room for several days, and then overtaken.
This method of preparing moonshine has an indisputable advantage. From the same sprouted grain, you can make moonshine from wheat about four times.
As you can see, the process is laborious. But the result ... It will necessarily justify all your expenses.
Once, after trying a well-made homemoonshine, you will never go to the store for alcoholic beverages, so as not to risk your health, buying a considerable amount of liquid of doubtful origin.
And if you want to improve the taste of your pervacha with different spices, berries or fruits, then raise the culture of drinking alcohol to a higher quality level.