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Sounds like your well on your way. 14 years, yeah your no spring chicken anymore. Welcome to HD

“Where’s the burn”? Is it in the mouth after the swallow? Is it in the chest as it goes down? Is it a “burn” or simply “a warmth”? If it’s in the mouth as you swallow, I would suspect it is from too much of the heads in your spirit. Tighter, more conservative cuts will help you reduce this problem....

Kiwi, she's liable to leave the house like mine. It's been awhile been working my tail off all winter but work has slowed so now y'all get to put up with me. My dog Bo keeps walking toward our old still site trying to convince me that mother nature can't stop us. He burnt his paw making a run last y...

Shiney copper does something to me. Nice work and welcome to HD.

Been awhile, Spring is creeping in, or so I thought. After a few weeks of warm spring weather I got the itch and boiled down a bag of dried molasses 42 % added enough white sugar for 8 percent potential hit it with US 04 and some yeast Energizer and it took off. Then winter came back so I added a su...

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Moved 40 gallons Muscadine wine that's has cleared up to the filtering station. Will filter out tommorrow into new food grade 5 gallon buckets with lids till I decide how much to run off as brandy. Finished out dry a tad and around 12 percent and is absolutely delicious. I'm gonna have to fight a fe...

5 gallons rice and corn whisky in which 3 are being made into bourbon

Welcome to HD Popeye, you ever ferment any spinach? Found it on the interweb under Spinach Kraut. Geoff That's good stuff I hear! Popeye, if you know any good tails step over to the thread titled " Liars Bench" and enlighten us. TruckinButch and crew are always telling some wild stories. ...

Welcome to HD Popeye, you ever ferment any spinach?

Assuming they're the same shape, I would say there's no appreciable difference other than price. Borosilicate rings are insanely high priced compared to the ceramic. I gotcha, thanks as that's the most important part, the cost. Mine are through the roof latley which has me rethinking things and a s...

Any one prefer one over the other?

Truckinbutch wrote:Yep . Them welders deserve some respect .

I'm in the chemical plant tig to welding 2 inch schedule ten stainless pipe today and it's raining to boot. I'm having to wear rubber boots to keep from getting shocked as my gloves are wet.

The business in that area got to be bigger than a a 40 gal outfit salein at 60. You got minimum wage folks that can't afford that an Suger shine is there market. Somewhere round there you got a commercial size outfit most likely subs onderground or in a hog farm operation. Folks not knowin bout it ...

Kitsch, style, fun, cool, addicted to shitty cuts and bad hangovers, dry county, etc etc Hancock County may be the wettest county in Ms as the Bars are open 365 days a year and never seem to close. Shine was 10 a quart for decades so a 5 dollar increase to 15 a quart isn't far fetched. Folks drink ...

Women come and go and some grow bitter with age, but good liquer just gets better with age and the bitter fades, Good choice.

You can get them milk jugs from a lot of places. Next time you in a store look at all that comes in em. They Putin it in them cause it is a dollar an sense thang. You getin 20 a gal an you gonna put it in something that cost 23 cent a piece or something that cost 6 a case 27x6 a case 162.00 or 80 x...

Sam Houston said after crossing Texas in the early days, "If I owned both Hell and Texas, I'd live in Hell and rent out Texas." "You can all go to Hell, and I'll go to Texas" – Davy Crockett If we're talking Southwest Texas I agree with Sam Houston! Its dang near hot as hell the...

:eugeek: I've seen commercial shine in milk jugs with pull tabs, must be able to buy em and apply pretty easily. Even heard a guy brag that it means it hasn't been tampered with, it's a real professional operation. SMDH. Though usually around my parts its bottles more like vinegar is sold in than mi...

Here's a link to the story http://www.wlox.com/story/38532151/illegal-moonshine-operation-busted-in-south-mississippi" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" rel="nofollow My apologies, I thought I posted the link, thanks. It's mason jars in my area. The area of this bus...

Looks like he was using some damn milkjugs for his product, but I see gallon glass jugs too

They said this is the largest bust in 8 years. 80 gallons of hooch was seized. They claim it was a 6 barrel operation but they must be talking about mash barrels as all I see is a poorly crafted 40 gallon stainless pot and worm.

Good deal glad everything worked out for you, I have a fresh ferment of all grain going and we were picking peas and I remember someone on here mentioning pea hull shine, so i threw a bucket worth of shells in for shits and giggles, so who knows my batch may be following your last one into the trash...

never handled poppy seeds myself! 1lb bread yeast 2 tsp lemon juice 1 tsp Epsom salt 1 quart of water Boil and reduce to a paste, one tsp per 5 gal of wash. Haven't had one stall since using this. Not all washes need nutes but for sugars washes it's not failed me. Now this recipe looks more cost ef...

Copper Do you save your backset and have some available for your next mash? Or if not, some Citric Acid? That particular bacteria that smells like vomit is pretty tough. In plastic barrels it can be a bitch to get out. Heat you some Boiling not hot but Boiling water add some bleach and scrub rinse ...

Copper Do you save your backset and have some available for your next mash? Or if not, some Citric Acid? That particular bacteria that smells like vomit is pretty tough. In plastic barrels it can be a bitch to get out. Heat you some Boiling not hot but Boiling water add some bleach and scrub rinse t...

I believe that I have screwed up on a corn mash. I started with roughly 8lbs of steam rolled corn, brought up to 170 degrees then let cool off to 150 threw in roughly 2lbs of steam rolled barley stirred and let cool overnight. The next day I strained and squeezed out the corn and barley mix and got...

I believe that I have screwed up on a corn mash. I started with roughly 8lbs of steam rolled corn, brought up to 170 degrees then let cool off to 150 threw in roughly 2lbs of steam rolled barley stirred and let cool overnight. The next day I strained and squeezed out the corn and barley mix and got...

why not? you could use a polypropylene bulkhead bung with reducing thread to element size and screw it right in. https://www.ebay.ca/itm/BANJO-TF300-Bulkhead-Tank-Fitting-3-In-Black-Poly/221575533638?hash=item3396ee5446:g:yiIAAOSwdSRaDNgK" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;&quo...

Mostly I do grains and use zero nutrients, but boiled yeast by its self is just part of a nutrient recipe. On a sugar wash we are gonna need other things like magnesium , calcium etc, so the 5 bucks is going up.