15 limes (juice only)
25 cups sugar
Water to make 5 gallon
Wine or distillers yeast
Extract the juice from watermelon and peaches, saving pulp.
Boil pulp in five quarts of water for 1/2 hour then strain and add water to
extracted juice. Allow to cool to lukewarm then add water to make five
gallons total and all other ingredients except yeast to primary fermentation
vessel. Cover it well with cloth and add yeast after 24 hours. Stir daily for 1
week and strain off raisins. Fit fermentation trap and set aside for 4
weeks.
GOOD WHISKEY
The ingredients are malt, sugar, yeast and rain water. You can buy the
malt from any big supermarket, if they don't have it they will order it for you.
The brand names for the malt and yeast I always, used was Blue Ribbon,
and Red Top. The malt is a liquid and comes in a can, the yeast comes in
cakes.
To every can of malt you will add 5 gallons of warm water dissolve 5
pounds of sugar and add 1 cake of yeast. Mix all this together in a barrel
made of plastic, stainless steel, or copper, under no circumstances use
aluminum. Keep it covered with cheese cloth to keep the bugs out. Keep it
in a warm place till it ferments. Then you can cook it off in your still and
you have the smoothest whiskey you have ever tasted. After you run off
the whiskey, it is clear like water. You can color it by taking a piece of dry
fruit wood (or maple), burn the fruit wood over a flame till it is blackened
real good, then drop the burned fruit-wood in your clear whiskey. In a few
days the whiskey will be the color of store bought whiskey.
JD's Black LabeI Recipe
It consists of 80% corn, 12% rye, 8% malt (a high enzyme 6-row variety
will be needed). Steep your ingredients in 140 to 150 degree water for
about 1 to 1 1/2 hours. Wait until it has cooled to 68 degrees before
adding your yeast. After fermentation, it is distilled once in a pot still with a
thumper, and then filtered through a 10 foot layer of maple charcoal (this
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