[Avodah] Selling bourbon before pesach

[Ben Waxman]

What Rav Rappaport found was that today, the first thing the manufacturers
do is to boil the wheat/barley. Only after this step do they begin the
traditional process described below. Rav Rappaport read the patents which
describe the process and this is how he came to his conclusion.

I did a few quick searches for whiskey in some patent search engines and
came up with nothing. This is not the type of info one can easily find.

Ben
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Micha Berger" <micha at aishdas.org>

>
> A mash is made of grain and water. This is then consumed by yeast, which
> converts the carbs in the grain to alcohol and carbon dioxide. In sparking
> wine and bear, that CO2 is kept in, which is why they have bubbles.
>