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Moonshine from beer: recipes and basic rules of cooking

September 24, 2019

Making moonshine from beer

Every country in the world has a national alcoholic beverage. The Czech Republic is famous for its many a variety of beers. But besides it, there is a little-known Czech national drink - Pivovica. And he is nothing else, like moonshine from beer.

She, of course, will be especially popular with beer lovers. And you can do it yourself, if there is an expired or stale beer. This is especially true for home brewery owners.

cooking features

The process of cooking Pivovitsa is similar to the usual distillation of brew. But it has its own features and nuances.

  1. First, what you need to pay attention to, this is the quality of raw materials. Beer, which is sold in large quantities in bottled stores is not very suitable. You can use unpasteurized filling. And be sure to choose light varieties. But the best option is to make beer wort, using a home brewery.
  2. The beer itself foams a lot. And if you pour a whole cube, then it can result in moonshine itself apparatus. To avoid this, it is necessary to fill capacity no more, than half. But in this case there will be less finished raw materials. There is a second way to avoid excessive foaming. To do this, pour all the raw materials into one container and leave unclosed for a day. Such images will produce carbon dioxide and can be distilled.
  3. If the quality of raw materials was not very high, then after the first distillation there may be a very pungent odor. To get rid of it you need to repeat the distillation. It will be useful to filter the drink. It softens the taste and improves the color. Moonshine can be cleaned with ordinary charcoal.

The finished product will come out 10 liters of raw materials 0,6-1 liter. With a fortress 40-50%. It tastes like whiskey, but has a special mild hop aroma and malty taste.

preparation of moonshine

In some recipes you can read the recommendation to cook brew by adding yeast and sugar. But due to the presence of preservatives in the original product, it may not begin to wander, but just turn sour. And with this preparation will not be Pivovitsa, and a mixture of different alcohols. To get a quality drink, it is necessary to adhere to the special ??technology.

You will need to prepare the drink:

  • 5 liters of light beer;
  • 0,5 liters of clean water.

preparation:

  1. To begin, you need to get rid of carbon dioxide. You can pour all the raw materials into a cube and leave it on 1-2 hours stirring.
  2. Overtake the first time. The main and tail fractions can not be divided. It is necessary to heat on the smallest fire, so as not to form in the process of a large amount of foam. The result will be close 0,6 l distillate fortress 33-38%.
  3. The second distillation. It will improve the taste of the drink. At the same time in the distillate you need to add half a liter of water. The main faction is close 30 ml of drink, which are unfit for consumption. To separate the body of the beverage from the tail fraction, it is necessary to measure the degrees of the finished beverage. Finish the turn, when the fortress is reduced less 40 degrees. It should come close 450 ml of finished drink with a fortress of about 50 degrees.
  4. The finished drink can be defended and filtered. Use a carbon filter. Before drinking, leave the moonshine from the beer to stand for a few days.

Moonshine from beer, though not very popular, but the taste is interesting and unusual. It has a pronounced smell of hops and a mild taste. You can prepare this drink for variety.