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diego001 writes "In the spirit of the T.W.I.N.K.I.E.S. Project, and taking a cue from The Simpsons, someone has apparently come up with a real-life Skittlebrau project - various alcoholic beverages with Skittles inside them. Take a look."
http://216.239.39.104/search?q=cache:y_kcJKU-rtsJ: www.crazyengineer.net/projects/skittle.php+&hl=en& ie=UTF-8
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Yes. Skittles is an old English game not unlike bowling. It's played on a lawn, on a sleepy afternoon with nothing better to do. Aside from drinking beer. Think upper-class English rednecks.
AC
Skittles, it is an old game that is quite a bit like bowling. You roll a ball at some pins, and try and knock them down. I suspect that hornblower (now thats a porn name!) was talking about drinking beer and playing.
From bartleby.com
Life is not all beer and skittles, i.e. not all eating, drinking, and play; not all pleasure; not all harmony and love.
"Sport like life, and life like sport,
Isn't all skittles and beer."
As others have said, "skittles" is an old game similar to lawn-bowling
Mat Groening, in his genious, took this expression and showed what happens when Homer takes it literaly.
- Tequila
- Schnapps
- Creme De Menthe
- Krusty's Non Narkotik Kough Syrup For Kids*
* It is advisable to substitute this ingredient with a non-fictional cough syrup.That's a variation of "Bar Skittles". "Skittles" is very similar to 10-pin bowling. So much so in fact, that in the UK there is an astonishing number of people who refer to 10-pin bowling as Skittles. The former being a fairly recent import.
Actually the purest ethanol you will get from fermentation will be about 20% ethanol, coming from a pure mixture of sugar (glucose and/or fructose) and water. You would have to use a special high-alcohol yeast called turbo yeast.
So how is Everlear produced? They ferment grain (because it's a lot cheaper than grapes and easier to ferment than potatoes) to the highest percent alcohol and then distill it. It is distilled to 190 proof (95% ethanol). This is the highest proof you can get because the ethanol and water form an azeotropic mixture, there will always be a little water in the mixture no matter how much you distill it. Chemists can make a purer ethanol but not by a regular form of distillation.
By the way, the flavor of distilled beverages comes about in two ways. In making a distilled beverage you either pot distill it, a process in which you do a very impure distillation. This allows a lot of chemicals, including flavor and color, to come over into the ethanol and water mixture. Pot distillation is simple but it can keep some very dangerous chemicals (such as methanol) and off-flavors if not done properly. You often have to double or triple distill (repeat the process two or three times) in order to make a decent product.
The second way to make a distilled beverage is to fractionally distill (a special type of distillation) the mixture to produce "pure" alcohol (190 proof, 95% ethanol) and then water it down to the proper proof and add in flavors. This is the way most hard alcohols are made today because it is much more efficient and it produces a very consistent product.
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