Moonshiners Recipies

[Spokerider]

Watched an episode of the Moonshiners last night with them all sitting around the table chatting about the seasons episodes with the program producer.
They each had jars of their shine on the table laid out for the tv viewers to see. Then, near the end of the show, they got talking about who had the best recipe and shine.

Tim Smith said he uses fresh strawberries to make his "Tim Smith Moonshine", another one of them [ forget his name ] uses malted corn and no yeast for his multi-generation family corn recipe, and old Jim Tom's recipe is a secret, says he.

Wondering if anyone knows more on these recipes, like are the strawberries in Tim's recipe being fermented in the mash / wash with corn? rye? or ?, and what Jim Tom's recipe is about?

[Prairiepiss]

Why? It's all BS

[Spokerider]

Well, there has got to be some truth to them??
Was Popcorn BS? According to Jim Tom, they shared recipes.
Apparently, the feds came to Tim's house to search for shine based on the evidence of the tv episodes they had watched / recorded.

I tried the shaking a jar full of 150 proof shine like they showed on the show, and how the bubbles formed a "bridge" across the middle of the jar as they broke and dissipated. Less than 150 proof and you don't get the " bridge", the bubbles are uniform and dissipate from the center, out. More than 150 proof and the bridge forms across the middle, and overall, the bubbles dissipate quicker as the proof goes up. Seemed to work like that with my jars of shine.

Why? The history and the tradition of moonshining and rum running in the US and Canada is interesting, recipes included.
There was a big sill in BC Canada on the coast during the prohibition years, I was just reading about. They used 3 1500 gallon tubs made from fir staves for fermenting, and all 3 were in full use. Now that is a lot of shine! Apparently, the shine was known for being smooth, with " no hangovers", so they must have made their cuts well.

Now, as in any reality tv show.......Mountain men, Deadliest Catch, all of the gold shows, there is some BS there, but there is also some truth to them.

Anyone know the recipes?

[rad14701]

No, nobody knows the recipes they use on the show... If someone had a really great recipe of all grain they would keep it to themselves, but just about every combination has been tried over the years... That whole "It's a secret" or "If I told you I'd have to kill you" is all bullshit for ratings... If Tim really went commercial he surely wouldn't be sharing the recipe...

[goose eye]

Ole boys can tell you the fruit recipes.
All fruit juice!
Don't tell no one it's a secret

You think likker can to to hi to bead.

As for that show . There a saying don't no who said it
but ... With a single strand of truth you can weave a
tapestry. Mean there is some truth but mostly BS.
An if there was likker on that table I bet it had a tax
stamp on it before they pour it in jugs for props.

So I'm Tole

[corene1]

I have heard that they use water with beading oil in it to look like high proof shine.

[Halfbaked]

I saw Jim Tom say it on a video and that's why no body wanted him back. Beading oil and water. No shine.

[woodshed]

Anyone making a product worth a damn for profit is not gonna give up their recipes. Legal or not.
They may throw out a hint here and there but doubtful your gonna get the whole thing.
I wouldn't give out the recipes I'm creating my product line with. Too many hours of scrutiny, refining.

If those guys are producing any alcohol the powers that be know about it and have been legally satisfied by someone. The producers of the show, the network? The big guy at the head of the table is pickin up the tab.

[pounsfos]

"another one of them [ forget his name ] uses malted corn and no yeast for his multi-generation family corn recipe, "

this right here sums up why I hate this show soooooooo F#cking much

he uses yeast, the fact he doesn't know he does, shows the quality of the show.

[Prairiepiss]

+1 pounsfos.

And watching a stream of water coming out of the so called still. When you can clearly see that it isn't alcohol by the stream. Or adding sugar to the still boiler because they didn't get as much as they wanted. So they could squeeze more out of it.

If you want to learn how Jim Tom does it. You can go find his stupid videos on YouTube. But we have had more people come here trying his method only to have it fail. Then want us to tell them why it didn't work.

We already have good ol recipes here. Find the golden pond recipe. If you want a good ol school moonshiner recipe. Or figure out your own. Most were sugarheads using wild yeast. Maybe some malted corn.

But you will be hard pressed to find anything those guys do on that show. Glorified around here. That freakin show has caused more stupid questions on this forum. Then anything. Not to mention shining a bad light on this hobby.

[ohyeahyeah]

Anyone making a product worth a damn for profit is not gonna give up their recipes. Legal or not.
They may throw out a hint here and there but doubtful your gonna get the whole thing.
I wouldn't give out the recipes I'm creating my product line with. Too many hours of scrutiny, refining.

If you are talking about bourbon thats actually pretty inaccurate. Bourbon producers have long been a community and sharing among distilleries was commonplace. The first "sour mash" method(recipe) was printed in the paper to help all kentucky distillers improve their yeilds and stablize quality. Most of the major distillieres were all started or ran by different Beams anyway. Even more modern day when Makers Mark was starting up "Pappy" Van Winkle gave them the recipe for Old Fitzgerald, jug yeast and green whiskey so they would know what a green wheated whiskey should taste like.
The grain bill only plays a small role in the finished product that is bourbon whiskey. Most bourbon producers have no issue telling the public their exact grain bill. Jim Beams line of bourbons is a good indication as to why its no secret. The aging and barreling by itself makes one grain bill coming off the same still into a half dozen or so distinctly different whiskeys.(white, black, bookers, bakers and knob creek)

[Frogboat Captain]

Bourbon producers: I believe they guard the yeast strain they use pretty tight.

[Ga_goat]

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 they can't believe the $100.. a gallon the show claims .