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Beauty story. Do pride to your forebears and take pride in your hooch, make the best around. Let your great grandchildren go on whatever the internet is in a hundred years and brag about you!

Also, leaving the spelling mistakes cuz that somehow makes it all the more honest.

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Holy crap! I've never had a quote as a sig before in my entire life, but if I had to sum up me, dammit if you dint nail it!

Is it all through the run or only at the end? Sometimes I get a wet dog smell and sometimes a wet cardboard smell towards the end of my run. I guess one man's wet dog/cardboard smell could be another man's wet gravel smell. Truth be told, I haven't spent much time smelling either wet dogs or wet car...

I've heard tell them ole boys would add a molasses, burnt sugar, tobaccer juice and all kinds of other crap to fake the color of a properly aged whiskey. It covers up the nasty smell and taste of a really poorly made hooch. That tobaccer juice will give yer throat a good burn so it seems like the ho...

Welcome!

If you've got a boiler for a steam engine you might want to think about doing a steam fired pot. Never used one, but I hear they are pretty sweet. Plus with a steam engine around you have a built in excuse for a lot of the gear you'll use for stillin.

You guys are doing much nicer work than me. I drilled a sloppy torn hole in my SS bowl with a well used hand-me-down bit. Just big enough to get this guy thru: http://www.harborfreight.com/nibbling-cutter-97636.html?utm_term=97636&tag=froogle" onclick="window.open(this.href);return fal...

This thread gets my vote for funniest title.

I don't know what you have there, but I sure wouldn't get in a cut on my finger.

Are you talking about sealing up just for a boil, or more permanent like to store stuff? If for a boil, I second the flour paste. Really is the best stuff. I use just water and flour, no sugar or salt, get it to a consistency of between pancake batter and pizza dough. I use warm water and stir the h...

Twas a good story. When the booze is gone, the party's over.

The Mrs. is up late making Pecan Pie from scratch and Devil'd Eggs. Gonna have Prime Rib tomorrow, and damn she does it right; marinated overnight, rubbed with herbs and baked with a Kosher salt crust. You never had better. Plus the standard holiday fixins; mashed taters, rolls, stuffing, corn. I am...

South Korea no shit? The love of stillin brings the world together. Welcome!

Some ways this place is better than a family. If somebody pisses ya off, you can turn off the computer and not talk to anybody for a couple weeks. When you cool down, come back, and give any old lame excuse or no excuse at all, and nobody calls you on it or gets in a huff. I've been a part of a lot ...

Good heavens if your retirement is in jeopardy you can sell that sucker to the stainless recycling facility. What's that weigh empty?

Merry Christmas! Sounds like yer off to a good start. I don't have anybody in my family with stillin in their blood, except my uncle's uncle's dad had a Duesenberg with tanks in the doors that he'd use to run hooch in from Canada during Prohibition. Lost the car when it broke thru the ice as he was ...

If it's taking that long to pull off product, I'd guess you need more fire. As for refining your likker, experiment. Pretty much anything out to the Tried and True section is going to steer you right. (The wheat germ is a good one.) Pick a simple cheap one and use it till you get your still figured...

I would not call stillin exciting. Rewarding and relaxing is more like it. I like sitting out in the shed watching likker twirl into the jar. My music is the hiss of the propane, the rattle of the beads in the pot, and the likker drops into the jar. I just sit and think. I think about how I'm going ...

If it's taking that long to pull off product, I'd guess you need more fire. As for refining your likker, experiment. Pretty much anything out to the Tried and True section is going to steer you right. (The wheat germ is a good one.) Pick a simple cheap one and use it till you get your still figured ...

I didn't see nothin.
I was never here.

If you have really nosy neighbors yer gonna want an excuse why you spend so much time in your shed and walking back and forth to it. Get a bunch of airplane models from garage sales, some in boxes, some finished, some in various states of put together. Hang a few on the walls, they're good decoratio...

Just thought of this; try sending it thru a carbon filter. The carbon should sop up the cinnamon oil pretty easy. Or try freezing it and see if the cinnamon separates out that way. You're not going to get it all no matter what you do, but you should be able to knock it down to something gentler on t...

I know that you can distill with sugar still in the wash, I did it with no problem. I ran slow so I didn't burn the sugar or carmelize it. Worried that the cinnamon will coat the inside of your rig and everything you make afterwards will hint of it. Save it for company, you never know what will wet ...

Never heard of this. The gals like it do they? When I was a little kid my gramma used to make sun tea - just a few teabags in a big jar with water and leave it out in the summer sun all day. Then we'd put it in the fridge overnight and have ice tea the next day. Do you have to heat the likker while ...

Holy shit. I mean HOLY SHIT.

Sounds pretty easy to do. Sometimes I wonder that there aren't more terrorist attacks with deadly chemicals ingredients available in every little retail store.

I will certainly understand if you call me an asshole, but I think that's kinda funny. :lol: :oops: :roll: Consider it practice and make another out of copper. Nobody keeps their first rig for long anyways. I had my first still two weeks before I built my second. Had that one two weeks before I tore...

I had a sippin shot of Jameson last night, somebody else brought it to the party. Now I haven't had a drop of commercially produced hard alcohol in 7 months since my main drinkin buddy got pregnant (my wife). We would always get a bottle of something strong and expensive for the weekend to unwind an...

I second the advice about NOT blowing air into your pot. What you will create is an air-fuel bomb sitting on top of 5? 10? 20? gallons of boiling liquid. That could very easily blow out a seam and spill the whole shootin match right into your lap. I think the increase in distillate you saw when you ...

Shop around for those vanilla beans. I was impatient and naive and bought 1 (one) bean at Safeway for $12.99. :cry: The Mrs. went to Costco and bought 10 beans for the same money. I'm all out of my vanilla hooch, so I'm making more. Tossed in some charred oak this time too. I'm expecting very good t...

Anything we can use to make better hooch? What type of still head is used?

How long should I run the wine through the still? I ran the vinegar for almost half an hour collected a little more than a pint of liquid was this ok? Will the resulting product be drinkable? Are you asking if distilled vinegar will be drinkable? It's not to my taste, but you could certainly mix it...