Prompt 141.01

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Five foods that Brody uses to make moonshine


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[shena8.livejournal.com]

Title: Five foods that Brody uses to make moonshine
Author: Shenandoah Risu
Rating: G
Content Flags: It's 90 proof.
Spoilers: Season 1 "Sabotage" onwards
Characters: Adam Brody, the Destiny Crew
Word Count: 767
Summary: It was the way to go for a quick trip into blissful oblivion...
Author's Notes: Written for prompt #141 at sg1_five_things.
Disclaimer: I don't own SGU. I wouldn't know what to do with it. Now, Young... Young I'd know what to do with. ;-)
Thanks for reading! Feedback = Love. ;-)
Please leave comments at my LJ if it's not too much trouble.

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[joylee56.livejournal.com]

Five foods that Brody uses to make moonshine (1/2)

1. Peaches

On Icarus there was not a lot to do with down time. The soldiers had a half hearted touch football league, but only the youngest most athletic of the scientists participated. The people into fiber arts had organized a weekly Stitch and Bitch and there were on again off again chess/go/whatever you could get people interested in tournaments. The SGC sent huge amounts of recorded material, but really watching a six week old football match was not all that exciting.

So when Brody overheard the mess staff complaining because somebody had misplaced a decimal and they now had 160 crates of canned peaches on their hands instead of the sixteen that had been ordered, he took half a dozen off their hands more by way of a means to amuse himself than anything else.

His peach schnapps was an immediate hit and, if he did say so himself, a huge morale boost. At least until Colonel Telford found out about it three weeks later and shut him down.

At least it was Colonel Young who took charge of the confiscated liquor. (“There's a still on the base? I'm shocked, shocked, to hear that. When you break down the still, please return my spare canteen, Mr. Brody.”) When Telford rotated back to Earth for briefing, Young doled out the last of the booze at the base's monthly birthday party.


2. Purple Sweet Potatoes – of course

After a couple of hours on evenings the still was open and pouring, intense debates erupted over whether the liquor distilled from the purple sweet potatoes was vodka. Some of the European crew members generally held that to be vodka it had to come from real potatoes, whereas the other side figured that if it tasted like vodka, it was vodka.


3. Funky Grain

Grain was not something they often found on the planets where they resupplied. The prevailing theory was that what they thought of as grain had been cultivated for so long that it was a wholly different plant than the primitive forms that grew wild. So when on one of their stops they did find a grass that had kernels resembling wheat there was much rejoicing.

Until they tried to bake it.

“It just won't rise. Near as I can tell it's got no gluten at all.” Becker complained. “And when I try to make flat bread it turns rubbery. Best I can do is porridge.”

Since nobody was excited about yet more porridge there was no objection when Brody took a bunch to distill.

It came out... well, interesting. He pressed Dr. Rush into taste testing. Rush choked on his first swallow and pronounced that, “It's no' whiskey” But finished off his sample and showed up for more that night when Brody unveiled his new product to the crew.

[joylee56.livejournal.com]

Five foods that Brody uses to make moonshine (2/2)

4. Herbs

The Lucian Alliance people apparently had a long tradition of making beer and distilling it to get a higher alcohol content. Intrigued Brody took a stab at it. Since they had nothing that resembled hops the first batch of beer was not a big hit with the Terrans. But then Lisa Parks suggested using a couple of medicinal herbs to mimic the flavor. “The purpose of the hops is to add a little bitterness to balance the sweet, right? Bitter herbs we've got in abundance.”

This greatly improved the flavor. Although most of the Brits in the crew still found it wanting. The distilled version was harsher than the purple sweet potato vodka, but was a huge hit with the Lucians. And an even bigger hit with the rest of the crew when Lucians demonstrated a traditional drinking game that involved trying to out do each other with crazy dance moves.

They were less amused the following morning when Colonel Young ordered everyone who had been at the still the night before to help clean, “Whatever the heck that is, and I don't want to know, off the ceiling.”

5. Blue Peach Mangoes

When they came out of stasis the first planet they came across had a soft fruit that was sort of a cross between peaches and mangoes. Aside from it being blue.

Brody brewed up a batch of his schnapps for the 'We're Awake' party and it garnered much praise. “Best you done so far.” Young told him halfway through the evening.

Brody and Becker kept to themselves the fact that all of the fruit had gone into food supplies and the schnapps was brewed from the leftover skin and seeds. Every trade had its secrets after all.

[everythingshiny.livejournal.com]

awww i love that you touched on them gettin gout of stasis!

[shena8.livejournal.com]

LOL!! These were awesome! Especially Young being on Brody's side all the time while always maintaining proper decorum to the uninformed observer... And Rush coming back for more samples! I loved that you got the Lucians involved, and an Awake! party. Thanks for sharing - totally snatched for my fic collection!

[archersangel (from livejournal.com)]

i like the vodka debate & the we're awake! party.