PS268 Lecture Notes - Liquor Control Board Of Ontario, Distillation, Referendums In Australia
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Fermentation is the process of yeast acting on sugar in the presence of water. Yeast will die off at 15% alcohol and fermentation will stop. Cereal grains can be used but they contain starch rather than sugar and must be converted before fermentation can begin. Malt = germinated and then kil-dried grain. Proof: percentage of alcohol is proof number. (eg. 45% alcohol is 90 proof) Middle ages italy first distillation of brandy at a medical school. Alcohol was refered to as the good creature of god and was often consumed in greater amounts than today as it was not contaminated like most of the water. Average amount drank was 5 drinks per day. In 1784 benjamin rush wrote about the problems of heavy alcohol consumption. He noticed a relationship between heavy drinking and jaundice, withdrawal symptoms (korsakoff"s psychosis) and epilepsy. He said that liquor damaged the persons morality, and was first to notice addiction.
