Panaji: No longer fancy your molasses-based rum and whisky? Now get your high on pure sugar cane.
With 'Pure Cane', an alcohol double-distilled directly from sugarcane juice, IIT-ian Desmond Nazareth has just qualitatively upped the ante for liquors.
While most Indian liquors swim in ethanol derived from smelly molasses, a by-product of sugar production, Nazareth's 'Pure Cane' is derived directly from cane juice, which is fermented and double distilled into premium liquor like they make it in the French West Indies or Brazil.
