![]() Real moonshine is technically grain alcohol. You'll notice there's two different spellings for whisky - with an E and without. Oh, and it also has to be aged in oak unless it's the American corn whiskey. If it's from anything else other than cereal grains then it isn't a whisky. WHISKY - By definition, this is all about the cereal grains. The remaining percentage must stick with grains, but whichever they decide. The other 25% must contain barley, whether all of that 25% is barley or just some of it. In order to qualify as a London Dry Gin, though, it's got to be 75% corn. ![]() Although most gin is distilled from a mix of fermented cereal grains it can be from anything, such as sugar cane, as long as it's got that juniper berry flavor going on. "Grain alcohol" is basically vodka made from grains that doesn't meet those restrictions, especially the ABV bottling limit. But to be called "vodka" it does have restrictions. It's pretty much unflavored, unaged, liquid ethanol. Any type of grain, any type of potato or even grapes. The main spirits distilled from starch products are: ![]() ![]() Then it's off to be distilled into liquor. Yeasts are added into the wort to convert the sugars into alcohol, and after that process is done the wort becomes a beer. After the starch has been converted into sugar, the mash becomes a wort. Complete saccharification is done after the grains have been put in water and made into a sloshy mash. ![]()
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