Grain to Glass Part 2) Craft distillery options

[Devil-Dinosaur]

I love all the options to make spirits in Artisan Valley, but I think there's room to flesh them out even further so we can have a craft distillery that can pump out spirits year round! This is part 2 of my suggestions to expand alcohol creation options in SDV.

Grains

Any form of cereal or pseudocereal grain can be used to make whisky. The most commonly used are corn, barley, wheat and rye. in AV Corn is used to make bourbon whiskey and barley is used to make scotch. Wheat is used to make plain old whiskey. I propose Rye be added to make Rye Whisky. Other grains (which I suggested adding in the brewery post) including amaranth, durum, oats, quinoa, buckwheat, millet etc can all be used to make generic "whiskey" just like wheat which has no specific whisky style named after itself. These would all have to malted beforehand.

A note on Scotch. Scotch is term meaning specifically "whisky from Scotland" it should really be called "Single Malt whisky" or "Malt Whisky".

Unmalted Sorghum could be used to make Chinese style Baijiu.

Unmalted millet could be used to make Raksi, a Nepalese spirit.

Distilled rice could be used to make komejochu a Shochu made from Rice specifically. japanese distillers are also now making whisky out of Rice.

Roots

Potatoes are already used to make vodka in AV. I propose that Winter Roots and Cave carrots , which are described as starchy tubers, also be able to be turned into vodka.

Yams and Snow Yams should be able to be turned into Shochu. If the dev team feels that they represent true yams rather than different cultivars of sweet potatoes they could also be turned into vodka.

Fruits

Though I do like the current system of any wine being turned into brandy I think a little refinement is possible. This would be the addition of Calvados, a style of apple brandy from France. This would be made from cider and perry, as both apples and pears are permitted in Calvados.

Other

Sap is used in parts of the world to make a distilled beverage known as Arrack. 10 or 20 sap could be used to make Arrack.

Maple Syrup is used in Quebec, Canada to make a distilled beverage called Acerum.

Pine Cones are used in alpine countries to make a liqueur called zirbenschnaps.

Thanks for hearing me out really enjoying SDv with the additions Av has made to it!

Thank you so much for all your work!