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Distilling alcohol takes three
days from start to finish. The first day is spent gathering
the material for the still, pulverizing it, and combining it with
water to make a "mash." For the next 24 hours the mash is
cooked over a constant low heat. It is during this time that
fermentation and other chemical processes create alcohol.
On the third day, the mash is
distilled to separate the alcohol from the rest of the mixture.
Gathering Material:
Material gathered anywhere can be used to distill methanol.
One person can gather, pulverize, and turn into mash 100 kilograms
of material per period, on the average. This is halved in
winter and in non-wooded hills. If both conditions are
present, the amount gathered is quartered. Only cultivated
grain (or other edible plant matter containing carbohydrates or
sugars) may be used to distill ethanol. Material gathered for
ethanol consists of edible food weight foraged from a field in
summer or fall (thus the above figures on material gathered apply
only to methanol). Alternatively, grain can be purchased or
bartered for.
While the above rules go into some
detail, considerably less detail is necessary in actually
administering the process.
Since the material for methanol is
plentiful everywhere and easy to gather, the referee should normally
allow players to run a methanol still full-time without bothering to
require an exact accounting of time and material.
The following still is large
enough to handle all three steps at the same time:
· 35 kiloliters per kiloliter of
output
· 35 tonnes per kiloliter of output.
· 1.25 kiloliters of material per kiloliter of output.
· 0.001 MW per kiloliter of output.
· §50 per kiloliter of
output.
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