The produce section of Whole Foods has apple cider (the conventional stuff, not the organic stuff) that has apparently been through some incredibly slipshod pasteurization process and will ferment, unopened, well before its sell-by; however about three times in four this is some kind of foul-tasting bacterial fermentation and not enjoyable fizzy yeast fermentation.
I knew about freeze distillation, and now that you mention that you, who I believe know more about booze than any other person of my acquaintence (and I've known a few bartenders, not all of them in my capacity as a former bouncer), learned about jacking from a book, I wonder how I picked it up, because I don't think I've ever read up on the subject. Maybe from fiction. I had the impression that the scumble of the Discworld was applejack, but Wikipedia claims otherwise, so my acquaintence with the process apparently precedes my reading of whichever book Nanny Ogg's Suicider is mentioned in. I have definitely seen one example in fiction: in Neil Gaiman's American Gods a shaman consumes some mushrooms and then jacks her own urine to create a hallucinogenic drink.
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Date: 2008-06-10 07:18 pm (UTC)I knew about freeze distillation, and now that you mention that you, who I believe know more about booze than any other person of my acquaintence (and I've known a few bartenders, not all of them in my capacity as a former bouncer), learned about jacking from a book, I wonder how I picked it up, because I don't think I've ever read up on the subject. Maybe from fiction. I had the impression that the scumble of the Discworld was applejack, but Wikipedia claims otherwise, so my acquaintence with the process apparently precedes my reading of whichever book Nanny Ogg's Suicider is mentioned in. I have definitely seen one example in fiction: in Neil Gaiman's American Gods a shaman consumes some mushrooms and then jacks her own urine to create a hallucinogenic drink.