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Moonshiners set up near creeks and rivers to assure a ready supply of water. All whiskey came from sour mash, but recipes varied. Commonly, the moonshiner mixed corn meal and hot water in separate "mash barrels," later adding large scoops of sugar as well as yeast. After two days, the fermenting mixture began to bubble furiously and continued to do so for several days. When the mash quit "working," it had the "kick of a mule colt" and was ready to be transferred to the still. [via] Link.
HOW TO make Moonshine Whiskey
Moonshiners set up near creeks and rivers to assure a ready supply of water. All whiskey came from sour mash, but recipes varied. Commonly, the moonshiner mixed corn meal and hot water in separate "mash barrels," later adding large scoops of sugar as well as yeast. After two days, the fermenting mixture began to bubble furiously and continued to do so for several days. When the mash quit "working," it had the "kick of a mule colt" and was ready to be transferred to the still. [via] Link.
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I WOULD LIKE TO THE INGREDEENCE TO MAKE MOONSHINE THE OLD WAY
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i would like a fast easy way to make good moonshine
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i would like a fast easy way to make good moonshine
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I would also like too learn how to make my own drinken alcohal. I am in a remote place with hardly any rescourse so could someone help me out
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15 - 16 gal mash barrel, 25 lbs chichen scratch, 20 lbs sugar, 3-4 packets of yeast, fill mash barrel with water, stir daily (everyday) If you have questions, you can email me and I'll explain if needed.
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i would love to know how to make decent moonshine just for me and my hicks please hook me up if yu know how
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plans for ethonol still and operation instructions for sale. 500 gallons per day. you build your own. 15 page book with all instructions. capoffto@yahoo.com
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plans for ethonol still and operation instructions for sale. 500 gallons per day. you build your own. 15 page book with all instructions. capoffto@yahoo.com georgiaboy
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I would like to try making some hooch. Can I get some more detail
directions on barrel method posted by mlb2880? I've priced out some stills on the net and they are a little pricy for me. Thanks.
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moonshine and gasohol is the same, gashol is a higher proof. capoffto@yagoo.net georgiaboy
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moonshine and gasohol is the same, gashol is a higher proof. capoffto@yahoo.com georgiaboy
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recipe for apple brandy-peach brandy-corn whiskey capoffto@yahoo.com
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recipe for apple brandy-peach brandy-corn whiskey capoffto@yahoo.com
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recipe for apple brandy-peach brandy-corn whiskey capoffto@yahoo.com
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I am also looking for a good recipe for moonshine. Can anyone help?
thanks,
Billy.
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does anyone know a good site or know themselves and can explain to me in detail how to make about 300mL of moonshine? hobo_box77@hotmail.com
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mlb2880 i'd like directions on everything if you could?
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mlb2880 i'd like directions on everything if you could?
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4 PARTS POTATOES / CORN
4 PARTS SUGAR - WHITE or BROWN but not Raw
3 PART DISTILLED WATER
1 WINE YEAST
1 PORTION WINE NUTRIENT
Dissolve Sugar in water. Let yeast rise in 1 cup of distilled water. Potatoes should be cleaned and peeled, then mashed. Mix everything in a brand new garbage can cleaned with wine cleaning powder. Stir Mixture every day for 2 weeks. Then let the mixture sit for 3 month. Note that you can filter out the mash before the last step or leave it in. At this point if youhave filtered it, you would have Potatoe Wine. If you have a hydrometer you'd have about 17% Alcohol. Now the hard part, you need a still to seperate the water and alchol. Alcohol has rapid evaporation @ 78.3 degrees. You want to evaporate just the alcohol leaving water and impurities behind. Which means throwing away anything produced before 78.3 as well. (This would be Ethanol 1 / also called the foreshot, tastes horrible). All this means that 17% of your batch is pure alchol. With a pot still, you'll be lucky to make 70%, and in a reflux still 85%, and in a valved reflux still 97%. Why? Water naturally starts to evaporate faster as temperature increases. Thus you'll never achieve 100%. Plus who would drink such a deadly mix? Anyways hope this answers all your questions.
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Now that I helped all of you, I am tring to figure out how to make Pumpkin Brandy made with Brown Sugar in the Shell. I've heard of 3 people who have also heard of this, but I can't find any recipes, or any details.
Cheers!
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simelest still you can get a water distiller
make your mash like recipe above. then run it through
a water distiller. i picked mine up at a flea market for 5 bucks. then run shine through a brita water filter.dont put solids in your water disttlier though
use plastic hose to syphon liquid off.
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Hi Mr. Alcohol,
I just goggled "Pumpkin Brandy Recipes" and found you.
So I tried one that I heard recently, with little success so far.
I poured about four cups of brown sugar into a pumpkin shell, added a heaping teaspoon of yeast and a cup or so of raisins. Let sit til the shell about rotted, which only took about a week. Then poured the whole thing into a huge bowl. Let sit for two weeks. Then filtered into a large glass jar, where it sits now. It tastes super-sweet, but no "jump" to it yet. I'll let it wait all winter if I have to.
Have you found any recipes? Any suggestions for what I should do better?
Thank you!
-Martin K turtledove@gmavt.net
P.S.
You know anything about the fermentation process for kambuka (sp?) mushrooms?
I used to cultivate them and now want to get back into it; just as a home hobby.
I added seltzer and fruit juice, and loved it.
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Hi Mr. Alcohol,
I just goggled "Pumpkin Brandy Recipes" and found you.
So I tried one that I heard recently, with little success so far.
I poured about four cups of brown sugar into a pumpkin shell, added a heaping teaspoon of yeast and a cup or so of raisins. Let sit til the shell about rotted, which only took about a week. Then poured the whole thing into a huge bowl. Let sit for two weeks. Then filtered into a large glass jar, where it sits now. It tastes super-sweet, but no "jump" to it yet. I'll let it wait all winter if I have to.
Have you found any recipes? Any suggestions for what I should do better?
Thank you!
-Martin K turtledove@gmavt.net
P.S.
You know anything about the fermentation process for kambuka (sp?) mushrooms?
I used to cultivate them and now want to get back into it; just as a home hobby.
I added seltzer and fruit juice, and loved it.
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Nice to know someone found Pumkin Brandy Interesting! I figured that what you've done sounds about right. I would of figured that there would of been water involved? Or did you use water? I am very interested in your outcome. I'll prob contact you via email.
I will shortly post another for Corn Whiskey / Corn Moonshine as I am testing this out starting this weekend. Wish me luck!
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This site tells you how to make a still.
http://www.moonshine-still.com/page2.htm
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made my first batch of shine recently. Found a receipe for rum I would like to try but it calls for black strap molasses which is sold at fuel and feed stores. Is anyone familar with this product? I cant find it in my local area..........
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i would like a recipe for making rum,any body have one
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hey i would like to know what the tempature of moonshine has to be to drink and what tempeture it has to be to put it in my truck and also if i was to make for my truck what type of wheat corn etc. should i use thanks dave
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can anyone tell me a good receipe for apple-pie moonshine? I have recently started the hobby of distilling and I have drank apple-pie before and it is my favorite and I have tried a couple things but it just dosnt turn out like what I have tried...
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the easiest way to make a still, is use a pressure cooker. where valve is ,on lid take that out. go to hardware store get a fitting that screws into lid and coverts it over to 1/2 copper line,take old 5 gal. bucket,drill hole at bottom. put end of coil out of hole,silicon shut. fill bucket up with water that will be your cooler. still on slow heat, after awhile ya can pretty much figure out how fast you can cook it
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Hi I am looking for a recipe for making rum, using sugar and yeast, can anyone help me. thanks
pls email @ daveandmillie@rogers.com
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does anyone know if you have to cook off your mash in a copper still or can you use stainless steel?
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Were can you find good recipe?
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Were can you find good recipe?
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so i have a question, once you make the mash and whatnot and get it to start condensing how do you know when to start collecting it since the first bit is no good?
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also, does anybody have any suggestions on filtering it?
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does anyone know how to make apple or peach brandy ? I would love to have the recipe.
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COULD YOU GIVE ME A RECIPE FOR APPLE PIE MOONSHINE
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WOULD LIKE TO KNOW HOW TO MAKEAPPLE MOONSHINE
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WOULD LIKE TO KNOW HOW TO MAKEAPPLE MOONSHINE
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Give me an email address Frog,,see if I can help ya out,,
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I would like to know how to make applepie moonshine also
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I AM NEW AT THIS AND WOULD LIKE TO KNOW ANY GOOD BOOKS OR SOURCES OF INFO ON PEACH OR STRAWBERRY SHINE ANY HELP WOULD BE GREAT
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Picker, can help me out with the apple pie moonshine too? jcaviletti@yahoo.com
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anyone know how to make some good moonshine please e-mail me at xclay2@yahoo.com been looking for days me and my old lady want to try some thanks alot !
clayton & jessica
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new to the distilling process, and looking for any help that I can get. Could anyone help me with peach or strawberry shine, being cooked in a 2 gal. pot still.Thanks.
SEBowman1@AOL.com
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Looking for recipes for both. Thanks! Please email me at mogrodowski@gmail.com
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One important thing nobody has pointed out yet:
Distillation of alcohol for consumption in the United States without a license is still illegal. Federal crime. The agency is called B"A"TF for a reason. And just because you're doing this as a hobby does not mean that when your neighbor finds out and gets mad at you for some reason and calls the sheriff, that he will accept that as an excuse. Maybe, maybe not. Even if you're making it for "fuel use", there are some requirements and limitations. Some states require additives to prevent its use as a beverage.
I'm not telling you not to do it. I'm telling you that advertising it on a public forum may not be prudent.
Dave K.
(Comes from 4 generations of Tennessee "hobby" distillers)
PS: The recipes for corn mash sound about right
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