RW>I'm looking for some, maybe a lot, of info on alcohol fuels...
RW>Paperwork needed to produce ...alcohol.
Paperwork? So far as I know, since you refer to fermentation, you need
grain or some other source of sugar, not paper.
Maple syrup don't seem likely. Sorghum, corn, or sugar cane stalks can
be pressed to get fermentable juices.  The hitch is that these are all
heavy feeders, requiring high doses of nitrogen, generally gotten from
dosing the field with ammonium nitrate.  And, where does the ammonium
nitrate come from? .. byproduct of crude oil refining.
You could try to sprout barley, oats, and/or wheat to get the "malt"
type syrup used in beer making.  But then, you gotta dry the sprouts,
and that is done in a gas fired kiln.
And, no matter where or how you grow it, you will find that it takes
a couple gallons of diesel to run the tractor for every bushel that's
plowed, planted, and combined... unless you plan to use horses, which
will take about 30% of your harvest to sustain thru the year.
I looked into methanol from wood; forget that too. The temperature and
pressure vessles needed go way beyond reasonable homepower investments.
If I had the time and money to seek a homepowered vehicle, I'd shoot
for a Rankine cycle steam engine fired with charcoal made in a chamber
in the wood stove I heat the house with.
But, even at that, I dunno if my wood heater puts out less particulate
and chemical air pollution than a gas engine would.  Course, out here
in the Ozarks, that don't seem much of an issue. But, some places...
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