Homemade jam moonshine

Step-by-step cooking

1. Step 1:

   

   Prepare all the necessary products. Any jam or berries and fruits mashed with sugar will do, the jam can be fermented or candied, you can use different types of jam to make one braga. Yeast is fresh, pressed. It can also be replaced with wine yeast. Of course, yeast can not be added at all, but only the start and end time of fermentation of the brew will significantly increase.

2. Step 2:

   

   Add jam to the braga container.

3. Step 3:

   

   Crumble the yeast, add sugar to it.

4. Step 4:

   

   Fill with warm water. The water temperature, in order not to kill the yeast activity, should be no more than 40 degrees. In addition, you can not use filtered and boiled water - the water must be alive! Wait for the yeast activity to begin - the appearance of a foam cap and pour them into the fermentation tank as well.

5. Step 5:

   

   Top up the water (also live), mix gently.

6. Step 6:

   

   Put a disposable glove on top and put it away in a warm place. The temperature is not lower than 20 degrees.

8. Step 7:

   

   Thanks to yeast, the fermentation process should start quickly enough and then the glove will inflate. It can last from 10 to 16 days. When the fermentation is over, the glove will deflate again. So the braga is ready for distillation.

9. Step 8:

   

   Strain the braga.

10. Step 9:

    

    Assemble the moonshine machine. If provided in your model, connect hoses with cold water.

11. Step 10:

    

    Pour the braga into the moonshine machine and put the machine on fire. As soon as the temperature reaches 70 degrees, turn on cold water for cooling, and do not allow the temperature to rise above 80 degrees. Collect moonshine in a separate bowl. In principle, it is already ready for use, but it has a pronounced moonshine smell, so for greater purity of the finished product, a second distillation is recommended.

12. Step 11:

    

    To do this, dilute the finished moonshine to 20 degrees of strength.If there is no alcohol meter, then take 400 ml of pure water for 1 liter of moonshine. Pour the diluted moonshine into the moonshine distiller and repeat the distillation, but the first and last 100 ml must be collected in a separate bowl and poured out.These are the so-called horns and hooves-a product very saturated with fusel oils and therefore dangerous for consumption.Pour the remaining moonshine into bottles and let it brew for several days.

13. Step 12:

    

    Observe the measure when drinking alcohol!