OT moonshine

Anonymous-0 · Nov 22, 2009

Anyone ever make any at home ?
I know there are permits and limits to how much you can make .Thought i'd be fun to give it a try .

IndianaRed · Nov 22, 2009

We might all be makin it before long, and running it in our old tractors just to get by, from the way things look.

buickanddeere · Nov 22, 2009

I thought it was now called a home made herbal suppliment?

thurlow · Nov 22, 2009

Probably better check the laws in your state; around 'here', one can make wine, but liquor in any quantity is verboten.

old · Nov 22, 2009

Ok so you used a German word are you in fact German??

gene bender · Nov 22, 2009

If the guy on WMT knew what he was talking about you do need a permit from the Feds not hard to get or costly but you are limited to how much . Be worth looking into before getting pinched.

JOCCO · Nov 22, 2009

100 pounds of yeast and copperline = making moonshine!!! Coal mine, moonshine or move down the line.

DH in Carolina · Nov 22, 2009

Made white liquor several times. Also peach and apple brandy. To make a good product requires a lot of labor, and time. Two 55 gal wooden barrels will turn off about 14 gallons of peach brandy. Takes a lot of peaches with the seeds removed to fill a barrel. About 3 packs of yeast and 30 lbs of sugar per barrel. Needs to work for 30 to 40 days before cooking. Stir once in a while and fight off the yellow jackets and hornets. Will take from daylight to after dark to run two 55 gallons of peaches. Don"t cook too fast or you will burn the mash or puke the still. If you do you wasted your time and everything else. It is a lot of fun to watch the jars fill and sample each one. Next time I am going to make a video about how to do it. DH

railhead · Nov 22, 2009

Oh no, ain't you listening to what "they" are saying? The economy is getting better, look how many jobs have been "saved or created". I sure believe every word "they" say.

(We are skrewed big time)

Old Roy · Nov 22, 2009

I really don't know about that !!----The media has been correct in all their prophecy s

Look, They were right even before we knew Pres."O"

DaveK(IN) · Nov 22, 2009

There is a good documentary on making 'shine on the Documentary Channel (197 on DishTV). It was on yesterday but is rebroadcast fairly often. Very interesting. Also, I remember from HS chem that the boiling point difference between ethyl and methyl alcohol is pretty slim. One will get you drunk, one will get you blind.

Welding man · Nov 22, 2009

Check out coppermoonshinestills.com Not cheap, but they look like quality workmanship.

JMS/.MN · Nov 22, 2009

Google "Lindsay Publications". Get their catalog of publications. Books about machine work, HM machines, stills, recipes, licensing...much more.

RN · Nov 22, 2009

Bunch of jobs tallied by congressional/senatoral district available- trouble seems to be a couple hundred thousand or so jobs created in districts that don"t exist. Yahoo/AP story has New Hampshire (?) figures for district 00-- which doesn"t exist and a guy trying to get on ballot as candidate for the district. The state and federal attorneys aren"t officially commenting when asked about voters in district that officially got so many new jobs- state attorney office unofficially say federals just f**cked up in general, don"t have enough sense to lie good. RN. .

lloyd in sc · Nov 22, 2009

"alternative fuel"

ohiojim · Nov 22, 2009

get caught with one drop and you could lose everything you own

thurlow · Nov 22, 2009

Kinda..........7th or 8th great-pa came from the Palatinate area of Germany in 1710; settled near New Bern, NC; whole family except for one son was massacred by the Tuscarora Indians in 1711. All the 'thurlows' are descended from that son.
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DH in Carolina · Nov 22, 2009

I used 32 ounce copper sheet to make my cooker. Two 3x8 sheets will make a 55 gallon cooker and the cap. Take it to a sheetmetal shop and have them to put a pittsburg seam on the edge. Use copper alloy brazing rod to weld the seams- no solder. You have to insulate the bottom of the cooker from the fire with a bed of sand. The flame does not contact the cooker. Unless you get caught with a lot of untaxed brew here they won't do much to you. Make you pay the tax and a fine. DH

Matt from CT · Nov 22, 2009

>About 3 packs of yeast and 30 lbs of sugar per
>barrel. Needs to work for 30 to 40 days before
>cooking.

One of the stories from back during Prohibition from our local State Police barracks...

They had been watching some folks they thought were moonshining (if it was even called that up here) and found their truck full of sugar with no one around.

A Trooper climbed in and hid behind the sugar, and let them drive him to the still. Arrested the folks once they arrived and they unloaded enough sugar that he could come out.

That took brass balls back in the days before radios and everything else!

J White · Nov 22, 2009

THE INFORMATIOIN CONTAINED HEREIN IS FOR INFORMATIONAL PUPOSES ONLY!! I DO NOT CONDONE ANY ILLEGAL ACTS OF ANY KIND. VIOLATIONS OF LOCAL AND FEDERAL LAWS COULD GET YOU IN JAIL!! You can run off a small batch in your kitchen. Ferment corn meal,yeast & water in a stainles steel stock pot for a few days. Make a cooling "worm" from coiled copper tubing "to be submerged in ice water". Put fermented "mash" on the stove and boil slowly with lid(and worm)on the pot. Put a glass container under open end of tubing to catch your fresh batch of BUSTHEAD. Do not use any metal that contains lead. Lead in the mix will cause blindnes or death. THIS IS FOR INFO ONLY!!!!

Leland2 · Nov 22, 2009

I thought you couod have up to 5 gallons for personal use .

barn E · Nov 22, 2009

Done right, that stuff is so good, if I had some when I was young would be certified alcoholic by now.

Anonymous-0 · Nov 23, 2009

Seen the old flicks.. buy a souped up car first.

rustyj14 · Nov 25, 2009

Some of my friends in the local Bluegrass Music scene bring their favorite cough medicine to camp, every summer! Most of the guys who drank it for their health are long gone--not from moonshine, just old age! Not me--I'm 85, and hope to live on fer a while, without the help of homade "shine!"

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