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I am new to distilling just to get that out of the way.
I heard you could make liquor out of sugar yeast and water does anybody know if theres any truth to that or have a recipe to do so?

I'm a newbie too and have just finished my first brew.

I made the following:

16 kg of sugar
2 packets of spirit yeast
50 litres of water

Ferment for 3 weeks, run though reflux still and out came 94% spirits, watered it down to 40% and ran though a carbon z filter.

A lot simpler then I thought it would be....

You need to distill it too?... This site has everything you basicly ever need to know about home distillation.

You can do it with turbo yeast or with your own neutrient. Personally I don't like the turbo yeast because many of them produce a good bit of ethyk acetate and it takes a while to calm down. You can use molasses, or some grain, some neutrient from a beer/wine shop, or tomato paste among other things. You need a source of vitamine B in your own neutrient. I have not tried some of the new pot still yeast that claim to be super clean. I will not go into a repipe, I've got what works for me, that probably won't be what you want. Whether you use a pot still or a reflux may make a big differance. For an easy start with mostly sugar, use uncle jessy's sour mash recipe and put about 3 pounds of grain and 7 pounds of sugar. On the first go around add some acid ( like citric not nitric). This will work fine and give a VERY light whiskey or vodka if you use a reflux or triple distill in a pot. There is NO absolute recipe, each of us takes the basics and does our own thing. Try a small fermentation, there is little to loose.

Read, it's all on this site.

and these

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Molassis makes a fine nutreant, as it contains both sugar and trace nutrients.

5lbs sugar
1 squezed lemon
disolve in hot water
add
1 gal molassis
top up to 5 gallons and add yeast...works every time.
then distill and age a month or two

great stuff.