Moonshine anyone

alcohol does a body of good and so much bad.
I got drunk at a bar 3 weeks ago meet a nice women.
she was so happly that i called her. went on a date with her
then she was shocked that i am only 26, She is 22 years older then me.
It felt so good and put me in should a deeply happly place when she
was torching my shoulder at that bar. Even picked up a stupid prepaid cell phone.
i going to smash the phone with something.
cause i heard from a freind that she was asking for my number. but i didn't have one. lol.
I am perty sure cell phones are a waste of money.
i littery miss her what to learned is well make sure they
know you age before you ask them out on a date.
Well at least now stuff and things no longer give me any joy.

IIRC you can make shine at home, PLEASE check with BATFE and get the permit/stamp. Some friends of mine built a still for a museum in/around Atlanta, BATFE then helped them with design, after it was set up BATFE even helped them with the first run. After that run the thing was cleaned up and ready for display. Do your best to work within the law, no need for the heartbreak of an arrest.


PLEASE CHECK THE LAW FIRST!!!

and then do what you have to

Yes my brother and I used to make brandy. Whitch is the same as shine but one thing: theres fruit in the mash in stead of corn. And it yields more, and its a little more potent, and its a little sweeter tasting. Well ok that's more than 1 difference.

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Originally Posted by EMC45

Deerhunter, yes it is a part of American history. Yes folks still do it. Yes it is still a FELONY! Meaning no military for you and a permanent record. This is in the realm of the BATFE (think sawed off shotguns or illegal suppressors). Bad stuff. Brewing is legal (certain quantities), but distilling IS NOT. I am not accusing you of wanting to do it, but your level of interest can likely get the wrong attention if you know what I mean.....

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well aware of the laws on it and i was not asking about getting started i just wanted to hear of anyones family history with it like someones grandpa that used to run it back in 28 that kind of stuff

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Originally Posted by Suile

alcohol does a body of good and so much bad.
I got drunk at a bar 3 weeks ago meet a nice women.
she was so happly that i called her. went on a date with her
then she was shocked that i am only 26, She is 22 years older then me.
It felt so good and put me in should a deeply happly place when she
was torching my shoulder at that bar. Even picked up a stupid prepaid cell phone.
i going to smash the phone with something.
cause i heard from a freind that she was asking for my number. but i didn't have one. lol.
I am perty sure cell phones are a waste of money.
i littery miss her what to learned is well make sure they
know you age before you ask them out on a date.
Well at least now stuff and things no longer give me any joy.

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Huh...? You're drinking shine right now, aren't you? ;)

Growing up, my parents came from Portuguese Dairy families. So, I spent a lot of time around dairy's and visiting the Portugee's. The wine! Fond memories of pressing the grapes and making wine, a big event with tons of food. I learned early, six or seven years old, you were handed a small glass of what ever dairy you were at's latest wine. You drank it, it was an insult not to. Besides, it makes a kid feel like a grown up. They would also take the wine, and run it through their still, almost every dairy had a still. At eleven I got to try that. Never thought anything of it, it was just how I grew up. It was funny later, in High School, we'd get ahold of some Portugee Diesel or some Dago red. One eight ounce glass and it would hit you, not me, but it would hit the white people. I have all the parts of my Grandfather's still, hidden away in the museum I call a garage. Mom brought it from the Dairy when they moved to town, along with a cream separater, BTW, any one want to buy a cream separater??
As far as the reference to the law, as I was told, the Constable of Gridley used to come out to my Grandfather's farm, shoot pheasants, (out of season), and leave with a bottle of wine.
Right or wrong, it made for a lifetime of memories for me.

When I visited my gunsmith mate in Vernal Utah, I sat on the back stoop of his mate Carney and ate elk stakes, killed with a firelock and washed down with shine out of jam jars !!! Carneys grandpa was moonshiner back in Missouri in the 20's. I had a fat time


Cheers

Heelerau


Popcorn Sutton RIP

Im just a stones through from [U][FRANKLIN COUNTY, VA./U] the way my brother and I actually made our brandy was on a kitchen stove. We used an antique pressure cooker, a thermometer, a coil of 3/8 copper air conditioning line (new and cleaned out with sand), a 5 to 10 gallon bucket, some plumbers putty, some jars, ice watter, and mash. you take both jigglers off the top of the pressure cooker and modify one hole to where the thermometer is not going to come out of it and no steam or alcohol vapor can exscape. Then use a 3/8 copper plumbing fitting (coupling). Then put one side of the coupling on the line and flare the end of the line. Then drill a hole in the side of the bucket at the bottom. Fit your copper tubing in a coil down in the bucket and through the hole. Seal the hole in the bucket with duct seal. Put watter in bucket (make sure it doesn't leak). Put bucket on pulled out shelf of oven and fill with ice and water. Put mash in pressure cooker, bolt on lid, place on eye of stove. Take end of coil with coupling and screw onto lid of pressure cooker, turn on eye of stove to low. Adjust heat according to needed temp allowing ample time to heat all of mash fo above alcohol (79c) boiling point. But cant go above water (100c) boil point. Then watch pure alcohol come out of tubing into jar setting on oven door

I knew there'd be a moonshine thread on here somewhere.
Here in gods country we call it Poitin.
My first experience of it was a clove poitin and what I remember most was that it got you drunk from the feet up.
I've been considering setting up a small scale still for myself.
Is small scale production worth it?

I just built me a small installation with a 10L close-in boiler. Had a first run with vinegar yesterday and it did great! Running the first wash in a week or so to see how the thing performs.. Attachment 181518Attachment 181519