Paul Arthur wrote:
> On 2007-10-08, Dick Adams > wrote:
>
>>But I have heard prisoners use baking yeast to make alcohol.
>
> As do some homebrewers. Joe's Ancient Orange mead is often recommended
> as a good first mead, since it's a fairly quick one and the recipe is
> quite simple. The recipe calls for bread yeast (a specific brand, and
> substitutions of other strains are not guaranteed to work).

I am not sure I used the recommended brand, but it worked for me :-)