Talk:Pruno

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I am a home brewer, and I note some dubious information here. First, it's unlikely to get a 14% yield unless champagne yeast or some other high-attenuation yeast is used. I believe that figure probably came from one of the articles referenced below -- though to obtain an accurate alcohol measurement, you need to take before and after specific gravity measurements. From the appearances of it, pruno is made using baker's yeast (which would be preferable) or it gets whatever yeast may be floating around in the environment to start fermentation. It makes me a little queasy thinking about it; suffice it to say that in a prison environment, you're unlikely to get something resembling Belgian kriek lambic.

Secondly, if sterilization protocols are not observed, and a healthy yeast culture isn't pitched to start fermentation (see above), then infestation with bacteria or some less-than-desirable yeast is likely. The result will typically be a nasty, sour brew, typical of amateur home brewing attempts or really bad commercial brew (I had some really cheap beer once that was like this). Even so, it's unlikely to make anyone sick (beyond something that would win the Egill Skallagrímsson Drekk-Til-At-Spýja Memorial Award), though this can't be ruled out completely. But the business about going blind is a myth about methanol in home brew, which just doesn't happen. Afalbrig 06:31, 15 February 2007 (UTC)


 * Well, I've made the real thing (and in the real setting), and as to getting sick--you have to remember drugs are fairly easy to get in prison. Some of the "aditives" weren't sugar. Also a lot of people save the solids and reuse it in the next batch, which can get incresingly nasty each time. Molds arn't all visible. But yeah, it's usually nasty but won't kill you or make you blind. Gaurds spread that rumor. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 208.100.200.81 (talk) 19:42, April 21, 2007‎ (UTC)

Blindess?
The article says that pruno can cause blindness .. afaik you'd have to distill it improperly in order for the methanol to make you blind. 212.50.147.101 20:46, 4 November 2007 (UTC)

Come on now
Don't prison guards exist? Are they not constantly butting in on what prisoners are doing? Do prisoners REALLY have this much unsupervised free time? This and anal rape seem bizarrely implausible in the presumed situation of being constantly monitored. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.72.21.221 (talk) 02:04, 13 February 2008 (UTC)

US Army
I was introduced to pruno (and the process for making it) in the US Army infantry while on tour in Iraq. It is not very common, but having since deployed several times, I can say that it would be correct to include the US Army or military as possible settings for the creation of pruno. Alcohol is strictly forbidden and considered contraband in warzones. The guy that showed me how to make it used "regular" yeast, but I had my brother send champagne yeast from the States to increase my yield. 45.59.229.58 (talk) 23:15, 19 April 2016 (UTC)

Cultural References
The 2006 movie Let's Go To Prison has a toilet-made Pruno reference as a plot device. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.27.249.138 (talk) 08:45, 30 December 2012 (UTC)

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Jarvis Masters Link
This page links to San Quentin in the name Jarvis Masters. This seems wrong. Furthermore, the link to San Quentin occurs a few words later Marcconnell95 (talk) 00:36, 11 March 2021 (UTC)

Pruno does not taste like bile, I have made and drank pruno while inside doing time
Back in 2016 at West County Detention Facility in Richmond, California in the. No it does not taste like bile, it's honestly better tasting than MD20/20, or at peast what I made was. I only used fruit though, tried but couldnt get any sugar (store privelges taken away for making pruno) and I heard that in San Francisco jail they use Ketchup. That came from what my Econ teacher heard from a sheriff, so grain of salt, but if true that would taste like bile I imagine. Given that the same shot caller who gave me an earful over how we were white and had to "hold ourselves to a higher standard" (his words not mine) because my cell was disorganized and then a day or two later I heard him talking about how he was plotting to get the cup of tobacco spit from the garbage that a deputy threw away to roll cigarettes out of. So you are dealing with people who have a warped view of what standards are to say the least, and so anything is possible.

I know it's improper to use myself as a source so I won't, but l'll just say that making decent pruno out of apples, oranges and bananas (I'm the only one I know of that used anything other than oranges because of the work and mess involved) is really easy and is definitely better tasting than the heavily artificial lower end alcohol products that people are buying from the store legitimately, be it for less than what the ingredients of the pruno I made would likely cost. 24.130.235.152 (talk) 20:19, 15 January 2022 (UTC)