Wired mag article on home distillers

[Uncle Jesse]

http://www.wired.com/culture/lifestyle/ ... _moonshine

[theholymackerel]

Excellent article!

Boy, I really enjoyed that and expect to see another surge of newbs around here.

Huzzah!

[Uncle Jesse]

Glad she made the point about safety and plastics.

[Uncle Jesse]

by the way I did not attribute the quote "this ain't stamp collecting" to myself. I said one of my users had said it and I found it poignant...and that user as far as I can recall was Hookline.

[Tater]

Yep maybe some fokes will see that it should be made legal.Same as beer and wine

[blanikdog]

by the way I did not attribute the quote "this ain't stamp collecting" to myself. I said one of my users had said it and I found it poignant...and that user as far as I can recall was Hookline.

Sounds like the sort of comment that one could expect from an Aussie, bless his heart.

blanik

[gs_moonshine]

Nice read uncle jesse. there was one quote that said you can buy it for what you can make it for. Not sure I agree with that statement. I can make 3 qts of rum for what I can buy 1 of the middle of the road stuff.

[Uncle Jesse]

Nice read uncle jesse. there was one quote that said you can buy it for what you can make it for. Not sure I agree with that statement. I can make 3 qts of rum for what I can buy 1 of the middle of the road stuff.

yeh but factor in time, equipment costs, propane or electricity and so on and it's a much bigger hassle to make 3 quarts than to go buy a bottle.

I can get a good Tennessee whiskey off the shelf for under $15 for a 750ml bottle.

[gs_moonshine]

yeah that would be true if it were hassle, but I'm sure you'd agree we would rather call if fun.

[Hawke]

From what I heard recently, there is a shift from cooking meth, to making 'shine happening. Really hope that is just a rumor, or we will have the cops out with corn sniffing dogs.

[HookLine]

by the way I did not attribute the quote "this ain't stamp collecting" to myself. I said one of my users had said it and I found it poignant...and that user as far as I can recall was Hookline.

Sounds like the sort of comment that one could expect from an Aussie, bless his heart.

blanik

Goodness, I'm offline for 3 days and you are all talking about me behind my back!

But hey, I get my 15 minutes (seconds?) of international fame, and for distilling! I can now slide into eternal anonymity, a happy man.

Thank you kindly, UJ, and Mr B.

Yeah, it was a pretty good article. One or two things in there I am not sure of, like 'most stillers use propane'. Is that true?

[Uncle Jesse]

I notice someone erroneously commented on the article stating that home distilling is legal in the State of Washington. Oh, how little they understand.

[goose eye]

so thats the sob. ha ha

kinda makes it sound like there wont no ole likker dicks worryed bout nothin but money an
that would be wrong.

so im tole

[showrguy]

great article UJ, nice pictures too..
i read that a couple of days ago while checking up on your web site..
was that you in the A's hat ??
and was that one fella sampling some of your demonstration ??
cheers.

[MountedGoat]

Great little article, definately good to see a positively written and positive spin on an otherwise negatively thought of hobbie.

Nice read uncle jesse. there was one quote that said you can buy it for what you can make it for. Not sure I agree with that statement. I can make 3 qts of rum for what I can buy 1 of the middle of the road stuff.

yeh but factor in time, equipment costs, propane or electricity and so on and it's a much bigger hassle to make 3 quarts than to go buy a bottle.

I can get a good Tennessee whiskey off the shelf for under $15 for a 750ml bottle.

I know that the larger the cheaper, however, I have costed out my home wine and it comes out to just around $10 a bottle. That means that if I were selling it I could happily charge $20 and be making $10 profit a bottle. And I was charging myself $30/hour . What kind of price are you looking to charge for your whiskey? It will be a while, but do you have any idear?

[Uncle Jesse]

Yeh it's me in the A's hat and I let folks who wanted to try a bit of spirit right out of the still, cut with water. Basically the same thing I do when I'm running a charge, tasting for cuts.

As for prices I hope to keep things reasonable but economy of scale says our stuff won't be the cheapest bottle on the shelf. If I can bring a 750 to market for $30-$45 I'll be very happy. Might be more, might be less, we'll see how things go. I'm as concerned about bringing a cost effective product to the average whiskey lover as I am about making a profit.

[trthskr4]

Once again I must be blind, I don't see any pics with that article to see anybody in a hat. Must be in another post or something. I have my own mental image of what UJ looks like and not sure if I want that spoiled. But if I know there's a pic, I just have to go look, you just can't not look.

[Husker]

UJ is much younger looking than his avatar makes him out to be, lol

H.

[Rudi]

Go have a look at pioneer spirits there's pics of all three of the lucky(hard working, persistant ,driven ,passionate) bastards whole pile of other cool stuff too.