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Pruno

See under prison wine.

Name (also prison wine) for a special "wine" that is produced in prisons in a primitive manner that is forbidden. In US penal institutions, such a brew is known as "Pruno". The inventor is unknown, but precise instructions came from Jarvis Jay Masters (*1962), sentenced to death for the murder of a guard in San Quentin prison in California. He wrote a poem describing his fate in prison and the pruno recipe. Masters was awarded the "PEN Award" for literature in 1992. He lived according to Buddhist precepts, became a philosopher and wrote the two books "Finding Peace: Writings from Death Row" and "The Bird Has My Wings".

Gefägniswein - Zutaten, PRUNO

There are various recipes, the ingredients (in technical language "kickers") are apples, oranges, canned fruit, stewed...

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