OT? Anyone making MOONSHINE in NorCal????

Isn't there a Dukes episode where they brew up a batch for fuel? Set up a car to run on it in case you need to dispose of the evidence...

CMT ran a show on Moonshine last year, I guess guys are still making it in the Carolinas - some get in trouble, others don't, for what reason exactly I forget. Hard to see how they could come down on you for making something for your own use, but then again it's a wonder we don't pay an oxygen tax. Give them time I guess.

 

Ya i do as a matter a fact im making some right now!

 

Ya as a matter a fact i am making some right now

 

Last year here in Atlanta, there was a rash of guys getting lead poisoning/blindness. It was linked back to moonshine.

Lead soldier on the copper tubing can be a bitch (though it doesn't seem to be a problem for our drinking water/pipes!). Also, the use of old copper core radiators seems to be a source of lead.

For that reason, I'd suggest a nice Griffin or BeCool aluminum radiator!

Doesn't moonshine in California come with one of those little pink umbrellas?

-Brad

 

HA pink umbrellas ya right who uses cope tubing anyway . pruno baby

 

If you are producing it for fuel you are required to denature it making it unfit for drinking. There are several ways to do that.

Wood alcohol (methanol) is the stuff that makes you go blind. If you drink it you will get drunk but your liver transforms it into foraldehyde which attacks and damages the optic nerve. Methanol is also less suited for motor vehicle use.

Hell KIRK, take some decent champagne and make us some cognac.

For gratuitous reasons only here is a sample of 190 proof my dad brought home from the lab long ago. It's something of a family heirloom. A sip of this will instantly dehydrate whatever tissue it touches. Not pleasnt at all. We keep it around for extra special occasions.

 

Who says crime don't pay. They named a whole community after a bootlegger here.
http://www.flowersplantation.com/about/

 

A friend of a friend brought some moonshine back from ROMANIA.
It had been sitting for 35 years,
made by a guy now 93 years old.

The stuff was like GENTLEMAN JACK but better.
Tastes and smells so smooth.
Sat in OAK barrel.
Still have a flask full.

It would be fun to make a long term HOOCH,
something that would be unearthed after a COONS age.

tp aka zibo

 

Never made any but come from a long line of makers. Hills of Va. I still got the cap off my uncles 250 gallon still in the basement. Lots of mountain folks
made it to suppliment their incomes. My great grand father included. I also drank a ton. My dad kept a 10 gallon charcoal keg in the basement and he'd
give it to his friends at christmas. A lot EVAPORATED over time. If you drink a
pint I found you'd get really drunk. There is a ton of stuff on the net for making your own. Just don't make too much and break the law. They will take your house, your car and anything else they want if you give them reason too. Make a little, drink a little. AND always remember there are two kinds.
1) the fighting kind
2 The loving kind (which becomes the fighting kind if you have too much)
Good luck,
Rod

 

Don't know what the law is now since they change them all the time. But in the early 80's you were allowed to make so many gallons for personal use per year. I think it was 200. Maybe less, that seems like a lot of personal use!

 

fire fox books at the library has everything in it still and a couple of recipes

 

I've made wine for years...and the local winery supply place, Siciliano's on Lake Michigan Drive in Grand Rapids, MI had a book I looked thru a few years back about making shine in Alaska. They used a Mirro pressure cooker for the still and easy to get copper compression fittings and copper tubing. Easy enough to do. And easy to change back when you were done running off a batch.

An old guy I met years back, Al, a wine maker, made a batch of terrible wine once and he was going to pitch it, but he came up with an idea, and he improved it by distilling it. Made a very good brandy by running it thru the distillation process. I don't know what he used for a still. He said what he did wasn't very legal.

Stills have to be Federally registered....that's where the BATF comes into play, tax collectors....and taxes paid on the product produced. I don't know if it's easy enough to make a legal still or not....

It's still a Federal Crime....but I guess it's still being done. Just don't get caught.

But Meth is a big problem here in MI, as it is everywhere else...but trouble is still trouble....

On a personal note, my great-grandfather Pat McDonough made whiskey, and it was considered to be fairly good too. Most farmers did. Some were better at it than others. My other grandfather's uncle John Bonczkowski in New York State made whiskey during prohibition as well. I remember hearing a story about throwing out the first and last parts of the batch, the "heads and the tails"...this was full of fusil oil, which gave whiskey a very bad taste.

I've taken a sip of the moonshine sold in the local liquor store. That's probably good for washing out a cut. It tastes terrible. I've used it as a prep before taking a shot of insulin...

 

Moonshine is a way of life ... here in the Carolinas. But forget all the stuff you see on TV and the movies. It is HARD work ... to make a good product. Properly done it is smooth and has NO bite. There's SELLING moonshine and then there's DRINKING moonshine.



Yes, that the Police tasteing the product ...

 

My friends uncle out in N. Carolina still makes it. He brought back a jar of it for us, but I never took any... I just entertained myself by starting fires with it. The few other guys that dared to try it were knocked on their ass very quickly.

 

my roomate from s. carolina used to soak peaches in it and then eat the peaches. after 2 peaches he passed right while standing up. He's well over 200 pounds and drink everyday. He brought me back some. smelled like shit but so strong it burned the tasted right off your tounge.

 

Tupentine best describes the taste...

Couldn't you just order some nice tasting absinthe? Lots of dead artists and authors in the late 19th and early 20th centuries can't be wrong?

That tastes like licorice, Mmmmm.

 

I believe the production of any personal "Grain Alchohol" is a federal offence! Esspecially corn, but then again look on the ineret and you can find all of the info and materials for distilling! I even found a home absinthe kit which is considered a narchotic here in the states

 

When I used to travel to Europe a lot I tried it a few times. Never was as strong as the stories, but it was interesting.

 

Back in the seventies I was in Alabama and met a fellow who's family was "in the business". He passed some around and when it came to me, I ,of course had to give it a try. Only problem was, because of the smell, I couldn't get my nose and mouth close enough to the jar to taste it. I pinched my nose and gave it a try..... AAAAAAAHHHHHHH! It taste like crap! That was over thrity years ago and I can still taste it.

I think the main reason it's illegal is that so many people get sick or die from alcohol poisoning. Let's face it, if it makes your car run like hell, what do you think it does to your stomach, brain and liver?

 

Good shine should be mixed with cool spring water and enjoyed. Good shine is a smooth as a nubile cheerleaders bottom. If it tastes like turpentine or smells like shit it aint good shine. Jay

 

I find Turpentine to be a refreshing change of pace drink. I also like the smell of linseed oil too. But that's just me.

Turpentine is used in medicines. Turpenhydrate is an expectorent and oil of turpentine is a purgative and will expell tapeworms among other intestinal parasites. Nothing like a bout of the "worms" to make a man appreciate good turpentine.

Properly produced liquor or 'shine should have a clean alcohol smell. If you have off scents like "turpentine" you have impurities, usually aldehydes or other compounds that are oxidizing and this will worsen over time. These impurities are what produce those really horrible hangovers among other harm.