Horse apple moonshine.

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Horse apple moonshine.

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I first made this recipe several years ago and decided to share it.
It's a simple sugar wash using 1-1/2 pounds of sugar per gallon.
Dried horse apples are used for nutrients, flavor and pH control.


For a 10-gallon ferment.
Pour 2 gallons of boiling water on two shovels full of dry horse shit and mix in the 15 pounds of sugar.
Top off the fermenter with cool water and pitch the yeast.
Fermented @ 85'f with bakers yeast, the FG is consistently below .995 within a week.
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Was gunna google "Horse Apple" then remembered I know where I can pick them in abundance.
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I just found a source of cheap molasses, and they have horse apples for free. Can I be the first to nominate this T+T?
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if horse apples were dimes, you could call me Mr. Bezos, 'cause i got enough to ship you all a box full.
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curious as to the flavor provided. seems it might have a crappy taste.
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Cheese and Rice Shady!
Now, there is a fruit called horse apple. But horse shit is also called horse apple. Boiling water over horse shit?? I think I’m going to need a dedicated fermenter if I’m ever going to try this foul recipe out… :sick:

I’d rather just boil yeast and add some lemon juice thank you very much.
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It probably makes a great Gin Mare... :lolno:
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Lots of nitrogen in horse apples for yeast health???
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Personally I would try these horse apples first before your version of horse apples, no offense intended.

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cob wrote: Sat Dec 04, 2021 5:30 pm Personally I would try these horse apples first before your version of horse apples, no offense intended.

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When I first read this post earlier those were my thoughts as well!
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The inedible fruit is called an Osage orange here in my neck of the woods.
The tree it grows on is excellent wood for making hunting bows.
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shadylane wrote: Sat Dec 04, 2021 8:05 pm The inedible fruit is called an Osage orange here in my neck of the woods.
The tree it grows on is excellent wood for making hunting bows.
Seems that we may be from the same neck of the woods… makes for a very good bow indeed. My frustrations created in that hobby are eased by the creations in this hobby. :wink:
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It looks like I have transgressed rule (I) In that the Osage Orange horse apple contains latex. Sorry gents.
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Probably best to pick your apples where there is rye, oats, barley, corn, etc., but no wild onions, Shady?
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My wife once owned an appaloosa mare that liked to eat wild onions.
The smell was horrible, especially when the mare would sweat. :sick:
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rubberduck71 wrote: Sat Dec 04, 2021 4:14 pm Lots of nitrogen in horse apples for yeast health???
A buddy of mine once used water from a cow pond.
The kinda a pond the cows would stand in too cool down and shit in.
On a hot summer day, the green water looked thick enough to walk on.
The yeast liked the icky water better than clear spring water.

On a side note.
He made his cow paddy shine for the same reason I made horse apple shine.
To see how it worked, and to keep some on hand if a mooch came to visit. :lol:
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Did the batch you posted about earlier ever age into something drinkable?
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NZChris wrote: Sun Dec 05, 2021 12:42 am Did the batch you posted about earlier ever age into something drinkable?
https://homedistiller.org/forum/viewtop ... f=3&t=5408
Thanks for finding the original recipe.
The new version uses dried horse turds and no backset. :lol:

by shadylane » Sat Dec 08, 2007 2:10 am

One shovel of fresh horse turds, sugar and hot backset to sterilize. Added cold water and pitched the yeast. It was one of the fastest fermentations I've done. Still have full jar of the shine, smells good, but don't know what it tastes like.
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shadylane wrote: Sun Dec 05, 2021 12:48 am
NZChris wrote: Sun Dec 05, 2021 12:42 am Did the batch you posted about earlier ever age into something drinkable?
https://homedistiller.org/forum/viewtop ... f=3&t=5408
Thanks for finding the original recipe.
The new version uses dried horse turds and no backset. :lol:

by shadylane » Sat Dec 08, 2007 2:10 am

One shovel of fresh horse turds, sugar and hot backset to sterilize. Added cold water and pitched the yeast. It was one of the fastest fermentations I've done. Still have full jar of the shine, smells good, but don't know what it tastes like.

you know why chickens can't fly? god hates chickens.

give 'er a sip and let us know! if gluten doesn't make it through the distillation process, i'm confident that horse shit won't either! (i think :ewink: :shifty: )
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shadylane wrote: Sat Dec 04, 2021 8:05 pm The inedible fruit is called an Osage orange here in my neck of the woods.
The tree it grows on is excellent wood for making hunting bows.
None of the old timers I knew had any use for them. I just ASSumed that they were bad for horses or something.

The Osage or Bodark is a thorny, disagreeable tree. Wikipedia says that settlers used it as a hedge to keep livestock out of their gardens; which I find hard to believe. (That they'd allow it close to their house).

I can verify that shoots from the Osage roots do pop everywhere around the tree and turn into wiry, thorny little bushes that people avoid. I have an irrigation ditch to maintain, with a couple of these Bodark trees just a few feet away. The roots are prolific, bright orange colored and they smell.

As far Indians valuing the wood to make bows, I'd have to agree. About 4 decades ago an friend of mine who was Zuni Indian, related a story where a friend of his (another Indian) brought back some Bodark wood from a reservation in Oklahoma, to fashion a bow with. Apparently the finished bow snapped under tension, and somehow the splinters managed to kill the guy.
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you know why chickens can't fly? god hates chickens.

Actually they can.

When Dad was away in the second world war we lived at grandpa's farm.

And at nightfall the chooks flew into the low branches of the trees to be safe from foxes.

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Some chickens can fly pretty damn good.
Awhile back, Bubba's bantam chickens got on his barn roof and ate his drying malt. :lol:
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I thought chicken was about not having the cajones to do what needs to be done.

If you haven't got a decent whiskey tasting glass, I'll post you one. :D
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Ok You win.
Here's my official taste test of the latest batch of Horse apple moonshine.
One run and done with a keg sized boiler, 4" x 100" ish raschig ring packed CM column.
It's 99% neutral with a hint of earthy taste.

Bubba said it tastes like a grain based neutral that didn't get the dirt, dust, dead bugs and mouse turds rinsed out properly.
I think it's a testament to yeast's ability to make do with what it has and a column to clean it up. :lol:
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I prefer cow piss brandy
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