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Welcome from south Ga ,, there is a lot of good reading and friends here

I wonder how it would work with wild rice , there is a large shallow "flat" pond about a mile from me that is thick with wild rice . Uncle Tommy used to gather some of it a couple of times a year wonder what he used it for ?

I've always sat in wonder when Jim Tom was able to pull 6 gallons out of an 18 gal still with 1 run ,,, I thought there may be something I could learn from the show till then . also I know a couple of folks around here that have been making 100/200 gal a month and selling it ( true moonshiners) and ...

Welcome to the party miner - Lot of good reading and likeminded friends here

I got mine from Home depot ,,, about $28 ,, no shipping charges , it has a handle and grinds dry corn pretty good , but you will have to build a hood over the burr plates because it will fly everywhere ,,, and you can only get a 2" deep pan under the burr . but I can grind 15 pounds in 15 min .

Welcome from a fellow Georgian ,, plenty of reading here - I have been around stills and such off and on for 45 years and I've learned a lot here .

Unrefined sugar cane, sugar ,, wouldn't be a good start for rum ????

Welcome to the forum ,, I have a 15.5 keg boiler but use a 60 gallon mash barrel ,, no one told me I had to fill it up ,, so I just mash about 12/13 gallons at a time tho the barrel will hold much more .

If you read enough here, you'll see some of these guys pounding copper to make their own fittings. A piece of that pipe cut and flattened to make the plates...and a piece of heavy wire flattened and soldered to the outside for a flange. Ingenuity will triumph... just built my first easy flange last...

Yeah I had to get a tried clamp from eBay... What fittings are you after and were are you... Am trying to put in a thumper ( never used one before ) but thete just are no local places for 2" fittings ,, I'm in south Ga but planning a trip to Jacksonville Fl in Feb been doing some phone calling...

Also, can you make mash from the deer feed corn you find along the roadside in deer hunting areas? or is that a mistake? I know none of my buddies sell that way it all goes straight to the granary or storage. Chroi ,, Don't get too upset with those who don't understand the term "deer corn &quo...

Around here we can get all the corn we want , a little rye ( sometimes ) ,no wheat ,no barley , in fact not much of anything but corn ,,, 3 elevators within 10 miles of my house , and if you ain't driving a semi and delivering to them you don't get in . so I use corn and bought chicken scratch feed ...

Thanks for all the help guys. I guess I have to see about how to get whole kernels cracked in an economical fashion, cause I have basically an unlimited free supply of it The deer corn I was talking about is shucked whole kernels in 40 or 50lbs bags. I suspect its the same stuff that gets sent to t...

Reading about the drier ideas / plans ,, I think I'll build something similar to a chicken egg hatcher I had last year 38" tall 20 inches deep . and 18 inches wide with cleats on the sides and 1" deep trays with 1/8 hardware cloth bottoms put the cleats about 1.5 inches apart at the top is...

I guess it should have read , malt it , dry it , , grind it , ferment it , run it it sometimes takes me a little longer to ferment but it do ferment ,and I'm after the old slow way anyhow ,, no more than I use . My Grand pa used to make it this way .

Trying to imagine a pint being shared for 3-4 months makes me wonder why bother .
My leftovers gets me invited to some real good parties . I don't use that much but I have friends who do ,

I sort of understand where you are coming from ,, here almost no one drinks and a pint will last 3 or 4 months , but I have always messed with it and always will , they would probably call my methods crazy ,, that's why I've always kept it to myself I use all malted corn , no yeast , no sugar , just...

bearriver , Iv you want a 40/50 gal wash there is nothing wrong with that , If you want to experiment with a batch or 2 just try a little more moderation or sticking a little closer to something tried and true , but 50 gal ,, there is nothing wrong with that just remember that some true poisons are ...

Finally found some 2" pipe to build my first boca , got my ¼ " for the top coil , filled it with salt, and bent /rolled me up a top coil , tomorrow I will start hunting some 4" pipe .. seriously that thing is hard to roll.. no one will ever see a pic of it nor figure out where I burie...

Yes I have been thinking about that in the top and bottom ,, have no copper screening here locally so I'm going to use a pot scrubber that I can order from amway sprial stainless no detergent or any other addativies about the size of the palm of your / my hand just going to cut them in ½ and stick t...

I just got a piece of slightly damaged 2" copper pipe I have 44½ inches without damage is this enough to build a boca
for a 15.5 boiler with a propane heat source , figuring on a 8 inch top coil ??

Have been doing this still stuff for a long time , isolated , didn't know that anyone else was doing it , much less how ,,nor not knowing there was any other way to do some of the process ,, been running what I found out is called a liebig condenser for 20+ years and now have 6 ft of 2 inch pipe and...

They only brew in north Ga , ship the juice from here to there , then send the finished bottled product back down here they have tasting rooms at both locations . This is done so they only have lisense one winery .. someone up there 375 miles away already gets all the cull and mistake brews ,,,he's...

Ok i'm dense ,, I have read every word of 4 different post lines on the Boca ,, have 6 ft of 2" pipe ,, have 12 ft of ¼ inch have the adaptors to fit the ¼ to my garden hose , have the flat plate for the angles ,, have a top cap , ,have the material to make the flange on the bottom work ,,but s...

Sure am glad to find this ,,,my daughter in law manages a local wineary and when they are mashing I have access to several tons of material ,, last year they got 26 tons of juice and it was their first year , their long range plan is for225 acres of grapes within 5 years ,, so for 2 months out of th...

Thanks for the chart ,, have 2 date palms and my brother has 1 ,been wondering what we could do with the tried drying , eating fresh ,, ect just could not get a handel on them so I'll try them at 100 proof My mom used to bake a cake with them and had a pudding reciept and both were good but she neve...

Fine stuff . I guess but all this " available at beermaking shop )( avaliable at winemaking supplier ) either one is a 400 mile trip for me one way , so I;ve never made a "sugar wash " sounds interesting tho . is there a supermarket reciept , we have those here. :esad: :esad:

The last copper pot I built was 24 guage don"remember the hardness but think it was hard because it was in a sheet , most of the soft is tubing (not pipe) would build another one but the cost has went too hi to make it reasonable / here a 4x8 sheet is over $500 and it will come in that size unl...

my market only pays good will and good times no $$

I'm between Valdosta and the Fl line . have a 26 inch riser on my latest modification but could only find 1 inch material wanted 2 inch o well I'm old and slow too .