Chapter 48 - 48: The Children of the Sump

Kian had the territory. Now, he needed the machinery.

Brewing was a craft Kian actually understood—back in the ancient 3k era, he'd had a cousin in the countryside who ran a moonshine operation. The process was fundamentally simple: crush the starch, boil it, ferment it, and distil it. Scaling it up for a Hive World, however, required a bit more Gothic engineering.

First, he needed a crusher to pulp the grain for fermentation, followed by a massive vat to boil the mash. Then, a multi-stage fermentation array, and finally, a pressurized still to extract the high-proof "spirit."

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