[QUOTE=viking]The basic ingredients:

corn meal
sugar
water
yeast
malt

The basic process: Etc

Seem to recall after that last process you mentioned, that you had to strain off the colouration of the finished product, it was an impurity, and a lot off the old timers that drank it "coloured" Ended up with a condition called "popskull", so if applied the same theory as to a motor spirit you would increase the octane rating.