Pruno (drink)

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Pruno , or prison wine, is an alcoholic drink made from either apples, oranges, ketchup , sugar , milk or other ingredients. Crushed bread can also be used as a further ingredient . Bread supposedly contributes the yeast to ferment plums. Pruno originated in prisons and is also largely confined to prison culture. There it can be made cheaply, easily and discreetly. Fermentation can be done in a plastic bag, with hot running water and a towel or sock. Towels can be used to hide the pulp during fermentation . The end result has been flowery described as "puke-flavored diluted wine". Achieving good taste is not the focus of Pruno production. Depending on the fermentation time, sugar content and the quality of the ingredients, the alcohol content can be between 2 and 14%.

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The basis of fermentation, the fruit, is called the motor . More sugar leads to more alcohol. Inmates are not allowed to produce anything alcoholic and the keepers confiscate Pruno wherever they can.

Jarvis Masters , San Quentin Death Row inmate , wrote the poem "Recipe for Prison Pruno," which describes a recipe for Pruno that won a PEN Award (1992).

In Michael Finkel's Esquire article about the death row Christian Longo a recipe for Pruno was called. In 2004, a pruno competition was held at the American Homebrewers Association's National Homebrew Conference in Las Vegas.

A wide variety of other prison alcoholic beverages are known overall. This includes wines that are fermented in toilet tanks. Sugary drinks like orange drink can also be fermented and distilled using a heating oven. These methods usually result in low-alcohol beverages.

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  1. ↑ Eric Gillin: Make Your Own Pruno And May God Have Mercy On Your Soul . Blacktable.com. Retrieved May 8, 2013.
  2. ↑ Charlie LeDuff: No Vintage California Pruno for New Year's? What's a Jailhouse Oenophile to Do? (January 1, 2003) , New York Times . Retrieved February 16, 2013. 
  3. ^ William Richard Wilkinson: Prison Work: A Tale of Thirty Years in the California Department of Corrections . Ohio State University Press, 2005, ISBN 0814210015 , pp. 78-79.
  4. ↑ Jarvis Jay Masters: Recipe for Prison Pruno . PEN America. Retrieved February 15, 2013.
  5. ↑ Michael Finkel: How I Convinced a Death-Row Murderer Not to Die. . Esquire (December 21, 2009). Archived from the original on November 8, 2012. Retrieved March 17, 2020.
  6. ^ Greg Hardesty: 'Pruno' brew is the toast of the OC jail . The Orange County Register (June 8, 2011). Retrieved February 15, 2013.

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