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OOM/IM: Where the moon don't shine
May. 21st, 2017 12:18 pmFollowing Jay's advice, Baze heads to the library to request holovids on beer brewing. He reads slowly, so the vids are most helpful. His first few bottles explode, and the ones that don't taste terrible, but Baze Malbus perseveres. Soon, his beers are both potent and delicious, and Baze enjoys the process so much that he branches out into distilling moonshine in his workshop upstairs.
On the surface, this is a great idea.
The basic ingredients needed to distill moonshine are sugar, water, corn meal, yeast, and malt extract. Hefting the twenty-gallon drum, Baze mixes ten gallons of water with the sugar and corn meal. Wiping sweat off his brow in the hot workshop, he heats the mixture to a temperature of 145F for a half hour. He performs an iodine test on the mash to see if the starches have been converted to sugar, and, sighing when they haven't, reheats the mash until they have. Then he adds the yeast and malt extract.
Baze waits impatiently for three days for the mixture to ferment. The mash, rising in the bin with a lot of froth, is soon ready. He transfers it to pressure cooker with a hole in the lid and a copper tube inserted into the hole. The first cup of moonshine produced is toxic, so Baze plans to dispose of it properly. He settles in with Chirrut and The Wonderful Wizard of Oz to read aloud to wait for the distillation process to finish.
All is going well--until the still blows up.
On the surface, this is a great idea.
The basic ingredients needed to distill moonshine are sugar, water, corn meal, yeast, and malt extract. Hefting the twenty-gallon drum, Baze mixes ten gallons of water with the sugar and corn meal. Wiping sweat off his brow in the hot workshop, he heats the mixture to a temperature of 145F for a half hour. He performs an iodine test on the mash to see if the starches have been converted to sugar, and, sighing when they haven't, reheats the mash until they have. Then he adds the yeast and malt extract.
Baze waits impatiently for three days for the mixture to ferment. The mash, rising in the bin with a lot of froth, is soon ready. He transfers it to pressure cooker with a hole in the lid and a copper tube inserted into the hole. The first cup of moonshine produced is toxic, so Baze plans to dispose of it properly. He settles in with Chirrut and The Wonderful Wizard of Oz to read aloud to wait for the distillation process to finish.
All is going well--until the still blows up.
