Anyone know how to make vodka like in "The Great Escape?"

I just watched "The Great Escape" and using potatoes they made some Strong-as-hell vodka (or something). Anyone know how to make vodka using only potatoes? Or anyone know how to make booze fast/easy/cheap/little equipment?

one package of yeast, a pound of sugar, diced potatoes (lots) in a five gallon sealed bucket with a few air holes shake well let set for couple days it should start to piss air out of the air holes shake it again let it sitfor two more daysuntill air stops strain and drink potatoe mixture is reusable ad more sugar and water

if you leave the fermentation open to the air without some kind of valve to keep new oxygen out and let the co2 created by the fermentation get out, you will cause the yeast to make vinegars, which will make it taste like, well, vinegar. Also, without a distillation, the mixture you fermeted will only be able to get 8 to 20 percent alcohol, depending on what type of yeast you use, given optimal conditions. 8% would be regular bread yeast and 20% would be special so-called "super-yeasts" sold specifically for making neutral spirits for distillation, for the purpose of making fuel alcohol. You can however drink it, it just usually has a high concentration of fussel oils and byproducts that affect taste and cause hangovers.

maybe i'll post the way I make a really easy homemade wine in a little bit.

it's dead easy !!
first, return to Germany 1943, tell them your one of the enemy an' more than likely they'll stick you in one of their prisons(stalags) then,get steve mcqueen an' charles bronson to collect potatoes instead of throwing that bloody ball about all day!! ( if they start moaning about 'escape plans an' shit, tell them the war will still be going on AFTER the brew is brewed.) then make a clapping machine, just incase you get sent to colditz ? or a glider or anything you like. just wait till your sober eh?
but don't give any to richard attenbough cause he's already blind. that's the price you pay for all that forging.......oh! an' don't forget to take your own moterbike ,as i'm sure they won't leave one lying around will they?
as simple as.........