homemade alcohol

nicktater

nicktater

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Its an investment if you want to do it right. I tried with a 2 gallon still and thought it was a waste of time, although i have only done it 3 times, i have got 180 proof whiskey but its better from the store. I dont think its worth it unless you have a large still like bigbilly, It took me along time to put through the 10 gallons of mash i had. I would have to say beer or wine are much easier, and much safer. If your going to go for moonshine, the best advice i have is to not go cheap. Buy a decent still, i made mine. Buy good quality ingredients. I recomend, RO or Distilled water, real corn, any regular old surgar will work, and some brewers yeast. You will find alot of the things you need at a brew shop. I do the same as budlover, i use it for many different things, i have even cooked on it when the power went out, and you can also put the tube from the fermenting mash into your grow room to add co2.
 
budlover13

budlover13

King Tut
nicktater said:
Its an investment if you want to do it right. I tried with a 2 gallon still and thought it was a waste of time, although i have only done it 3 times, i have got 180 proof whiskey but its better from the store. I dont think its worth it unless you have a large still like bigbilly, It took me along time to put through the 10 gallons of mash i had. I would have to say beer or wine are much easier, and much safer. If your going to go for moonshine, the best advice i have is to not go cheap. Buy a decent still, i made mine. Buy good quality ingredients. I recomend, RO or Distilled water, real corn, any regular old surgar will work, and some brewers yeast. You will find alot of the things you need at a brew shop. I do the same as budlover, i use it for many different things, i have even cooked on it when the power went out, and you can also put the tube from the fermenting mash into your grow room to add co2.
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My buddy uses an old beer keg with a 4 1/2' long 2" dia. or so tube coming out the top (same diameter as the bung hole *lol*) over a propane burner. The stainless tube has steel scrubber pads stuffed into it to give the liquor a means to "climb" up the tube. The tube also has 3 reflux points. One created naturally and two created with cool water. Mash is fermented in a 55 gallon drum and he runs about 4 gallons at a time.

FAR better than anything bought in a store IMO.
 
wascaptain

wascaptain

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its cheaper to go out and buy booze then produce a quaility shine.

cheap booze will get you just as drunk as my shine, may even taste better, BUT...with my shine you aint got no hangover .

your vision may be a little blurry for the next few days, but other then that its all good.
 
nicktater

nicktater

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budlover13 said:
My buddy uses an old beer keg with a 4 1/2' long 2" dia. or so tube coming out the top (same diameter as the bung hole *lol*) over a propane burner. The stainless tube has steel scrubber pads stuffed into it to give the liquor a means to "climb" up the tube. The tube also has 3 reflux points. One created naturally and two created with cool water. Mash is fermented in a 55 gallon drum and he runs about 4 gallons at a time.

FAR better than anything bought in a store IMO.
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I would love to make a reflux still some day, definately a larger one then the 2 gallon pot still I have now. But thats more of an investment then I can justify to my wife and myself, the one I made was pretty much all stuff I already had around the house.
 
budlover13

budlover13

King Tut
nicktater said:
I would love to make a reflux still some day, definately a larger one then the 2 gallon pot still I have now. But thats more of an investment then I can justify to my wife and myself, the one I made was pretty much all stuff I already had around the house.
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Not much investment outside of the keg.
 
wascaptain

wascaptain

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sweetfeed.jpgi use a beer keg as a boiler,coupled a milehigh stainless steel 2 inch reflux head, i use copper for packing.

you can fab your own, but like about any thing now, by the time you figure in your time and expences, its just cheaper to buy one.

...the pic is apx 12 gallons of sweet feed "wine", getting set for racking. i will get about 2 gallons of high proof shine, but i cull it down to just keeping the

"hearts", heads and tails get re ran.
 
Hal Incandenza

Hal Incandenza

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Put some fruit and sugar in a bag of water, let it ferment for a few weeks, then enjoy. Serve chilled with lime-peel garnish in large wine glass.
 
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