Since ancient times, people have been trying to discover something new. They sought to improve product quality. Conducted various experiments, experiments on everything that they liked. This desire has helped to achieve the desired results in the modern world. There are many recipes that have come to us from the past, and present-day technologies make the cooking process easier.
In the distant past, people harvested fruits and berries, which over time became unsuitable for consumption. But after a while they began to use spoiled products for certain purposes. From them began to produce various drinks. High-quality purified moonshine did not harm health. The most commonly consumed drinks were mash and moonshine. If we talk about wine, then at that time it was considered a weak alcoholic drink. It was used as juice, and also used as a festive table decoration.
The legend of moonshine
The most common legend among society says about a certain unknown country in which a terrible and unbearable heat has come. Due to the high temperature, the fields, forests and all grasses have dried up. All surviving creatures began to kill each other. Struggling with thirst, they drank fresh blood. From the heat, ravines and pits formed, from which trees and their fruits fell from time to time. Drying out, they turned into a humus mass and had a hellishly fetid aroma.
But to save everything, the north wind, coming from other countries, drove huge clouds into that land, from which monsoon heavy rains poured. The formed pits, ravines and humus lying in them were filled with water. After some time, all decayed berries and fruits began to react with water. The insisted fruits gave a tasty and pleasant smell of light fermentation.
One of the hunters who experienced this period of drought in the cave came out of it to quench their thirst. Feeling the pleasant smell of humus, he decided to try water from a puddle in which there was fermented humus. The hunter was unusually surprised by the taste and scooped up some water with him in a container taken with him. And then he went to other people, so that they could taste the resulting drink, after which this type of drink was recognized among people around the world. A man came up with a recipe and began to produce various types of this drinking product.
In Russia, people tried to surpass all their foreign competitors in the quality and taste of moonshine, they made it more tasty and strong. And Peter I, who ruled in his time on Russian soil, forbade the captains and sailors of the Russian fleet to drink foreign drinks in order to avoid "dope". The wise ruler understood the benefits and harms of moonshine for the body.
In addition, you can never be sure of the consequences of drinking alcohol. However, Prince Orlov took moonshine as a kind of love potion and advised everyone to use it. According to his stories, it helped to get closer to women even without words.
Under Soviet rule, the creation and distribution of moonshine was banned. Moonshine began to be actively produced by people who did not understand anything in this matter. These "taste shafts" produced hazardous tinctures with disgusting taste. They swore and swore that this drink was healthy and that no moonshine does any harm.
Nowadays, they approved the production of this drink. Thanks to this, high-quality products have appeared on the market, in the manufacture of which all prescription proportions are observed, which can be done without harm for the body.
If you decide to make this drink at home, it is better to use separate encyclopedias for the production of moonshine. So you protect yourself from poisoning. It will be very useful to read about the benefits and harms of moonshine on the body.
Moonshine - a drink that is prepared at home. It is purified from harmful impurities. To get a good and tasty alcoholic beverage, it is distilled several times. With quality cooking, the taste of moonshine can even surpass some of the factory alcoholic products.
Self-made alcoholic drink is of two types: distillate and rectified. The distillate is made by evaporating alcohol from the mash, always distilled twice or more. This type of drink contains many harmful impurities. They are deleted during the second run. The strength of the finished product in its pure form is 80-90%. For consumption, it is diluted with water, then the percentage of alcohol drops to 45%.
Rectificate. A distillation process is used to obtain 96% alcohol. At home, it is very difficult to get such a strong drink. In such moonshine, raw alcohol is used, obtained as a result of the first distillation. You can’t get the rectificate from mash.
The benefits and harms of moonshine
Harmful and undesirable impurities can be found even in the highest quality alcoholic beverages. The fact is that it is impossible to completely get rid of them. Therefore, they have long established acceptable standards for harmful substances in alcohol. It was revealed that they do not appear as a result of fermentation. Sugar and yeast react to form undesirable components called fusel oils.
Fusel oils - what is it?
Let's see what fusel oils in moonshine give us - harm or benefit? At home, these oils are only harmful. Since you can’t make an acceptable norm for consumption, it’s better to overtake moonshine several times. Fusel oils contain many components: aldehydes, esters, alcohols. The color scheme of these components varies from light yellow to red-violet shades. They also contain an unpleasant odor. With a high oil content, moonshine poisoning is possible.
But for industrial conditions, various chemicals are obtained from this oil. They are also used for amyl alcohol, which is used as a solvent in the dairy and confectionery industries. Isoamyl alcohol, not converted to amyl alcohol, is a rather harmful and life-threatening product. Contact with parts of the body causes pain, redness, and bloating. In addition, the content of fusel oils does not bring any benefits to moonshine, and the harm to the body becomes more serious.
For the complete purification of moonshine, a moonshine was developed . Moonshine purchased from an inventor can be very harmful to your health. You won’t even know how many times it was distilled and how clean it is. Were the acceptable standards observed during preparation? What utensils were used for cooking? Where and how was it stored? How much alcohol does it contain? Instead of moonshine, they can sell you pure ethyl alcohol. Were various substances added to it to cause rapid intoxication? If such substances are present in a drink, a person may experience a mental disorder. In this case, a hangover syndrome is not ruled out or even practically “registered”. So if you buy moonshine, then get it in proven places. The effect and harm of moonshine on human health depends on the amount of drink consumed per day.
The benefits of moonshine
Scientists and physicians excitedly insist that moonshine cannot be useful if consumed in amounts exceeding 50 grams per day. A drink made at home ensures your safety, since only you know what moonshine was made from and what products you added to it, how high-quality mash was used for preparation. You can also independently overtake it several times and get rid of unwanted elements from its composition. Some doctors argue that moonshine cures diseases. But here the matter is not even in moonshine itself, but in a person who believes in his healing (there is a reference to the placebo effect).
For the preparation of moonshine, many methods have long been developed and dozens of recipes have been written. Its peculiarity is that the preparation of this drink does not require certain products. You choose for yourself what to make moonshine from. Usually it is prepared from various raw materials: grains, berries, fruits, vegetables, preserves, tomato paste, starch and sweets. If you brew moonshine from cereals, the drink will turn out to be stronger than on a berry basis. From berry mash, it turns out more fragrant. The main thing is to observe all the proportions indicated in the recipe for cooking.
Cooking moonshine from sugar
We will need:
- 3 kilograms of sugar;
- 15 liters of water;
- 100 grams of yeast;
- dill (1 bunch);
- currant leaves (for aroma).
Dilute 3 kilograms of sugar with 15 liters of water. Mix. Then put the yeast in the mixture and mix again. We leave to wander for several days in a dark room at room temperature. After fermentation, add currant leaves and dill for flavor. Then we distill the finished mash through the moonshine still. We get a strong alcoholic drink from sugar and yeast.
Learning to make moonshine without yeast
For the first option, we need:
- tomato paste - 1 liter;
- sugar - 5 kilograms;
- water - 15 liters;
- beer - 0.5 liters.
In this case, tomato paste plays a crucial role. And beer is replaced with yeast. Pour sugar into tomato paste and pour it all with water, stir until porridge forms. After we pour beer there and mix. We leave the resulting mixture to infuse in a warm place until it ferments. Then we distill.
For the second option, you need the following ingredients:
- sweets (with fruit filling) - 3 kg;
- water - 20 liters.
We take sweets, grind and fill with water. Leave it all to roam for six days. Then we distill this tincture and get moonshine.
Moonshine on a galvan
What gives us Kalganovka on moonshine (benefits and harm are unconfirmed)? What awaits lovers of "hot"?
Kalgan is, first of all, a plant that is used to add to various alcohol tinctures. It is also used in cooking. In folk medicine, the root of this plant is used as a medicine for various diseases. Its use enhances immunity and sexual activity. Thus, if you make moonshine on a Kalgan, then it will be, first of all, a medicinal supplement.
Learning to clean moonshine with potassium permanganate
What is the purification of moonshine with potassium permanganate? Benefit or harm?
The easiest and most common method for cleaning moonshine is to add potassium permanganate diluted in water. Potassium permanganate cleanses the drink, but not completely. It reacts with the chemical elements contained in the moonshine. As a chemical reagent, potassium permanganate can cause a “poor-quality” reaction. Let's find out what the addition of potassium permanganate gives to the moonshine: harm or benefit? Considering the opinion of alchemists and specialists in this field, such a method of purification is dangerous for the human liver. The liver releases aldehyde when moonshine enters it, and diluted moonshine with potassium permanganate already contains acetic aldehyde. And this can lead to serious consequences (for example, liver cancer).
There are other opinions that refute the harmfulness of cleaning this alcoholic drink with potassium permanganate. They argue that if moonshine is distilled several times, potassium permanganate does not in any way affect human health. Harm and benefit in cleaning moonshine brings a cleansing substance.
We clean moonshine with potassium permanganate
To clean one liter, we need:
- 1 glass of water;
- 2 grams of crystalline potassium permanganate.
We take a glass, fill it with water and add potassium permanganate to it. Stir and pour into moonshine. Stir, let the contents stand for about 24 hours in the bank. After that, we make sure that the liquid becomes transparent, and at the bottom of the jar there is a precipitate in the form of white flakes. Pour the contents into another container without sediment.
For 1 liter of moonshine, you need to take 2 grams of potassium permanganate crystals. Dilute in 1 glass of water and pour the solution into a jar of moonshine. Mix well. Allow to stand for 12-24 hours. It is possible and more, it is important that the liquid becomes transparent again, and at the bottom of the can precipitate in the form of white flakes. Then we filter this liquid through a separate water filter, which is best used only for these purposes, because potassium permanganate remains in the filter and it will no longer be possible to wash it. If you do not have a filter, you will need: gauze, a bottle, activated carbon, cotton wool. Cut the neck of the bottle, forming a funnel. We put cotton, charcoal and gauze inside the funnel. We filter, then we drive moonshine one more time. This will help improve the quality of the alcoholic beverage and eliminate the odor of fusel oils.
Moonshine on pine nuts
We will need:
- 3 liters of moonshine;
- 200 grams of raisins;
- 200 grams of peeled pine nuts;
- 1 spoon of oak bark (for a strong drink);
- 100 grams of honey (for a mild flavor).
Mix all ingredients, pour into a jar. Roll up and put in a darker, cooler place for 2 months. Distill the drink is not required. After infusion, open the jar and filter the contents with gauze or chintz. The drink is ready!
Infusion of moonshine on pine nuts is practically harmless. It is known that pine nuts are a useful and nutritious product for human life.
Useful Tips
Be extremely careful with the addition of various ingredients to the moonshine. Before cleaning, you should cool the moonshine a little - its strength should not exceed 35 degrees, otherwise you will not be able to clean it from fusel oils. Do not buy moonshine from unknown and unverified people. Do not drink too much moonshine, as this can harm your health.