School and home life were going great. I was getting slow and steady cash from the internal world fruits. But it felt extremely slow getting a couple gold coins every week or so.
So I figured I might as well start preparing for future money making. Now tell me what always sells in adventurer style worlds? It's booze. Most adventurers love to drink. However this world wasn't very advanced in sciences. They uses things like formations and monster cores for most things. There was no electricity or things like that. So science was like nonexistent.
That means they didn't really know much about things like fermentation and yeast and all that other good stuff and they didn't know about good alcohol.
So what they were all drinking was nasty low alcohol beers and stuff like that. There was no vodka or strong things. However there was some wines but they were all crazy expensive and usually horded by elves.
So what's a cheap way to make money off of drunks? It's moonshine boys.
I had saved up my gold and bought a moonshine book, a 10 gallon still, a fruit press and all I needed. I mean hillbillies on earth could do this shit in the middle of the woods why can't I do it in my internal world?
It cost me about 300 gold in total. The 10 gallon still could be set up on a counter it cost me like 150 gold coins. The book on moonshining cost me like 10 gold the fruit press which kind of looked like a potato masher with a knob on top. You put the fruits inside the press and put a bucket underneath it then turn the knob and it slowly crushes the fruit juice out. Now most of the time moonshine is made put of fermented sugar and corn mash which is ran through a still. I'll be adding fruit juice to mine for fruit flavored moonshine.
The only problem I had was heating the still as it would cost a fortune if I wanted to get electric or use gas items to heat it.
So what I did was I had bought fire crystals. Most people here use fire crystals to heat things they are a common item found just about everywhere and sold for pennies. I could get 100 for like a single gold. You activate them by putting magic energy into them and they just heat up to crazy degrees for like a week before running out of juice.
So I had the still set up on a nice iron plate out away from the house. I had a basket of strawberries. I poured the strawberries into the fruit press and slowly crushed the juice out of them into the bucket below.
I poured water, sugar, corn and the fruit juice into the still before lighting up the fire crystal and tossing it underneath the still and waiting for it to quickly heat up.
I grew my own corn, strawberries and had water from the well. All I needed to buy was the sugar which you could get pounds of it cheap then I bought jars for bottling.
Cassie helped me out making sure everything was measured properly and running in order. "Your mother is going to be upset when she finds out your making alcohol." She says with a smirk mixing the liquid in the still.
"I'm hoping to distract her with the shock of seeing the internal world and meeting you." we had decided to tell my parents about the internal world. There where safety measures put into my internal world. The main one was a compulsion where people cannot talk or write about my internal world. If they try to talk about it their mouth gets all mumbled and they spew jibberish and if they try to write it down or find a way around that they just doodle pictures of cats.
Not to mention if there were people I could trust in this world it would be my parents. I get how main characters always try to hide shit for their safety but I have safety features in place and lying to people who love and care for you is shit.
I would set up the discussion about 2 weeks later when the moonshine is done. Just hit them with everything at once.
Of course we aren't going to tell them absolutely everything. We will go with God gave me blessings and blah blah blah. Let's not mention reincarnation or the system.
The moonshine still looked to be performing properly. The liquid was boiling and we could see the vapors being run through the tubes and cooled into smaller containers and dripping into pure alcohol.
Now all we have to do is wait for everything to be done and then bottle the booze, rinse and repeat. Every run is 80 mason jars. I'll figure out the selling prices later.
I'll probably think of a way to make its name well known. The beers everyone is drinking at the taverns and guilds are like 3% alcohol absolute crap. The moonshine will be at least 75% pure alcohol. I start plotting and planning.
I happily leave the world and get ready for bed with dreams of golden coins filling my mind.
The next two weeks pass by in a flash and the moonshine was ready we strained everything and bottle them up into little 16 ounce jars. We ended up with 80 jars of high grade moonshine. At this point I figured it was about time to inform the parents and get my money plot on the road.