Culinary moonshine

[goinbroke2]

http://www.chow.com/stories/10475" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" rel="nofollow

Interesting story, sums it up pretty good.

[Hillbilly Rebel]

"...typically associated with [u][i]hillbilly rebels[/i][/u] from [u]the rural South[/u]..."

Didn't know they had been spying on me!

[Ayay]

Thanks goinbroke2. Well done chow.com; accurate and balanced reporting is very scarce these days.

[goose eye]

5 gal of mash will make one galon at 150 proof

[Tater]

5 gal of mash will make one galon at 150 proof

Them ol boys ever get that goose?

[goose eye]

hell ole boys was doin good if they got 2 1/2 gal a barel mashin it now they could stretch it a wee litle bit if they had beadin oil but not nowhere close to that without getin cut shot or a whoppin. ha ha

so im tole

[Hawke]

Saw a simillar story done out of Seattle a few weeks ago. Maybe if a few more get out there, we can finally break the guvmint mythes enough to get the hobby legal.

[goose eye]

the article is bullshit

[goinbroke2]

New welder in the shop came by when I was talking to another. He overheard him say to me that mine was really smooth. He asked "You make moonshine? that stuff will make you go blind!" A twenty minute lecture followed.

After tasting a sip of mine (I had some behind the back seat of my truck in a whisky bottle) he then said his father/grandfather/whoever used to make it too. "Tasted just like this, really good"

[violentblue]

New welder in the shop came by when I was talking to another. He overheard him say to me that mine was really smooth. He asked "You make moonshine? that stuff will make you go blind!" A twenty minute lecture followed.

some people aren't interested in facts, fokelore and superstition are plenty of information for them.
very few people know that I make my own. Quite a few more have tried it without ever knowing it wasn't store bought.

[goinbroke2]

Have some new people in our community from England. Wife runs the "welcome wagon" and also a "newcomers club". Friday night we had a get together and I took my stuff. After a few drinks the guy said "I really like Canadian whisky, smooth and not so overbearing". Because it's in a whisky bottle he read the label and said he would have to buy a bottle. Before I said anything one of the other guys there (a friend) says that it's mine and I make great whisky etc. I changed the subject after saying that I wouldn't do that, it's illegal.

Yes I talked to him about shutting his freaking trap!

Nobody brought it up again the rest of the night luckily. Loose lips.... Now I'm telling everybody to zip it. I was proud of the better-than-store-bought but too many people found out.