Yeast will happily metabolize sucrose into alcohol. White sugar is popular among moonshiners as it is cheap and easily available. Winemakers also sometimes bumps the sugar contents of thin grape must by adding white sugar, they call it chaptalization to make it sound fancier.
A fermented sugar wash tastes like shit though as it has none of the nice flavour compounds you get from fruit juice or malt so it has to be distilled and filtered into vodka to be enjoyable.
It's for a whole month.
But the sugar...Jesus. That's a lot for one person in a month. Super unhealthy.
They'd use it to make more vodka, of course
I thought you make rum or cachaca from sugar. Can you actually do that with refined white sugar?
I know white sugar is an ingredient in pruno, so if you've got some fresh fruit lying around you're good.
If you're in Poland and it's a clear liquor, it's vodka. Idk
Yeast will happily metabolize sucrose into alcohol. White sugar is popular among moonshiners as it is cheap and easily available. Winemakers also sometimes bumps the sugar contents of thin grape must by adding white sugar, they call it chaptalization to make it sound fancier.
A fermented sugar wash tastes like shit though as it has none of the nice flavour compounds you get from fruit juice or malt so it has to be distilled and filtered into vodka to be enjoyable.