Newslink: The Moonshiner's tale: Carrying on family craft

Not that it has ever been hard. Fermentation is a natural process. All you need is a bit of the specialized fungi we call yeast. The Sumerians were brewing beer in 3200 B.C.; birds can become buzzed (or dangerously drunk) on fermented berries. Once you figure out that water has a higher boiling point than ethyl alcohol, you can start to get fancy distilling hooch.

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