| For centuries there have been people who made ethyl | | | | ability to reduce the bacteria levels before the |
| alcohol, or ethanol. Now a lot of people are wanting to | | | | fermentation process. After the mash is done it will be |
| learn how to make ethanol. But for years it wasn't | | | | cooled and directed to the fermenters where the |
| called ethanol. Many people know of it as moonshine. | | | | yeast is then added. When the yeast is placed into the |
| Moonshine is the stuff that people think of being made | | | | cooling mash, the conversion of sugar to carbon |
| in a still nestled deep in the Appalachian Mountains by | | | | dioxide and ethanol will begin. This is where the money |
| a man missing a few teeth. But if people knew that | | | | making process takes place and is important to |
| the same steps that are needed for creating | | | | remember when learning how to make ethanol. |
| moonshine are the ones that are used to make | | | | It can take up to forty or fifty hours for the |
| ethanol, they would be surprised. So with the constant | | | | fermentation process to be completed. When in the |
| rise in gasoline prices many people are wanting to | | | | fermenters, the mash will be turned and agitated and |
| learn how to make ethanol. | | | | also be kept cool so that it can facilitate what needs |
| There are a couple of ways that are used to make | | | | to take place with the yeast. Once the fermentation |
| ethanol. There is both wet and dry milling. These are | | | | has taken place it will result in an alcoholic liquid very |
| two very different ways that are used with the | | | | similar to beer. To separate the ethanol from the other |
| making of ethanol. Wet milling only accounts for about | | | | corn mash brew, it will be transferred to distillation |
| eighteen percent of all ethanol production whereas dry | | | | columns. Using conventional distillation, the ethanol will |
| milling is the most commonly used at eighty two | | | | be concentrated down to 190 proof and then inside of |
| percent of production. These are some things that you | | | | a molecular sieve system, will be dehydrated to around |
| will need to know when you learn how to make | | | | 200 proof. That would be some really strong |
| ethanol. | | | | moonshine if it were made in the hills. Talk about white |
| Dry milling works by crushing the entire corn kernel into | | | | lightening. |
| corn meal, or corn flour to some. The ground meal is | | | | At this point this liquid would be considered drinkable if |
| then processed without ever separating the different | | | | you could handle it. To render the ethanol undrinkable, |
| components of the grain. That ground up meal is then | | | | the anhydrous ethanol will be blended with |
| mixed with water to make something that looks like | | | | approximately five percent of natural gasoline or other |
| cornmeal mash. Cornmeal mash is a little different than | | | | type of denaturant. By this happening the substance |
| the look of uncooked cornbread but they're pretty | | | | will now not have to worry about paying any alcohol |
| close. In order to convert the starch to dextrose form, | | | | beverage taxes. Not a bad thing to make note of |
| there are enzymes that are needed to be added. | | | | when you learn how to make ethanol. |
| Dextrose is a type of simple sugar that will be needed | | | | Now that all that has taken place the resulting ethanol |
| later on for the yeast to feed from. Ammonia is one | | | | can be shipped to various gasoline terminals and other |
| ingredient that will be added both for pH control and | | | | retailers. Ethanol is something that has been around for |
| also as an added nutrient to the yeast. | | | | centuries with us finally realizing how to tap into its vast |
| This pretty mash that was created will then be moved | | | | abilities. |
| on into a high temperature cooker that is used for its | | | | |