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Transportation and storage of contraband are both large issues in prison. Concentrating the intoxicant can be quite useful.

They made the wine in the manner the article this one references describes. Where 'wine' is just what they call any sugary liquid that has fermented.

You make shine with things like potatoes instead of fruit. You're very much not going to want to drink 'wine' made out of potatoes or beets-but if you take that same 'wine' and distill it, you end up with something that doesn't taste so awful.

They start with prison wine. I would not want to drink prison wine either.