Dressing the part

[Chremes]

My friend and I are just getting into this fantastic hobby. We've purchased a variety of equipment already and are planning our first distillation for next week. We have been joking that we need to also dress the part and purchase denim overalls.

But then I was watching a video by Jesse from Still It. In it, he suggested that distillation was akin to alchemy. Now my friend and I are thinking hooded robes and perhaps engraving some alchemical symbols on our still.

Thoughts?

[Renhoekk]

Depends where you live….where I am, there’s no way I’m wrapping myself in Druid robes inside of a shed with a boiler running Overalls and no shirt all the way

[Forest Beekeeper]

My still holds an honored position between the living room and kitchen.

I clean it, fill it, and plug it in. As it is slowly heating up I connect the cooling hose, test connections and adjust the water flow.

In an hour the drip begins.

I have never bothered to change clothing.

[shadylane]

"Dressing the part"
My thought is mashing, fermenting and distilling is often messy and stinky.
Dress accordingly and if Ya don't do laundry, ask permission from who does.

[Deplorable]

I've learned to wear yesterday's clothes on hobby day. Mashing gets messy, and sitting next to a running still for 6 hours makes you stink.
Clothes worn on "runday Sunday" go straight in the wash after clean up is done. You'd be surprised how much different the individual jars smell after a shower and clean clothes.

You know how smokers can't smell how bad they stink? It's like that. You get nose blind, and don't even realize that you wreak of moonshine.

[shadylane]

You know how smokers can't smell how bad they stink? It's like that. You get nose blind, and don't even realize that you wreak of moonshine.

Brings back memories of the ##### brothers, locally known for making corn whiskey.
Folks made fun of them for smelling like the hogs they raised.
After doing my first true sour mash, I realized what the smell was about.
It wasn't the hogs, it was the spent sour mash.

[NZChris]

I don't dress to advertise that there might be likker in my shed. The less undesirables that know, the better.

[googe]

Shorts, T-shirt , thongs (flip flops) yes I'm Aussie.

[Saltbush Bill]

Shorts, T-shirt , thongs (flip flops) yes I'm Aussie.

Summer , shorts and thongs.

[JustinNZ]

I’ve got a nice black apron I sometimes remember to wear. Justina doesn’t like the molasses splashes.

Molasses Splashes is a great band name!

[Yummyrum]

Shorts, T-shirt , thongs (flip flops) yes I'm Aussie.

Summer , shorts and thongs.

Overdressed , it’s just a pair of jocks for me in summer Salty .

[Saltbush Bill]

I was going to suggest that Yummy, but didn't want to distress anyone with the mental image.

[Rusty Ole Bucket]

I've been wearing shorts and a t-shirt and one of these. I have one I've had for years for welding/soldering/brazing, and I thought a clean one would work around the still & mash pot. It keeps the hot stuff off and everything behind it as cool as possible. I've been known to wear the original in my shop with just my underoos and sandals depending on the weather and the job at hand. I actually thought about overalls, but I'm not a fan of pants.

Rusty

[jonnys_spirit]

Shorts, T-shirt , thongs (flip flops) yes I'm Aussie.

Summer , shorts and thongs.

Overdressed , it’s just a pair of jocks for me in summer Salty .

You wear clothes?

A few years ago we were mashing up a corn/grain bill in a 32 gallon brute with the boiling water method and while it was sitting overnight it sprung an expanding leak and ended up emptying out all over the cellar floor. My gf at the time woke up in the middle of the night and down there scooping it up with a dustbin into another brute and in the nude!

I put a ring on that girls finger - “wife material”

Mash converted btw, fermented as expected and made a nice drop and yes I have pics to remind her that she know what she was getting in to

Cheers,
jonny

[Rusty Ole Bucket]

A few years ago we were mashing up a corn/grain bill in a 32 gallon brute with the boiling water method and while it was sitting overnight it sprung an expanding leak and ended up emptying out all over the cellar floor. My gf at the time woke up in the middle of the night and down there scooping it up with a dustbin into another brute and in the nude!

I put a ring on that girls finger - “wife material”

Mash converted btw, fermented as expected and made a nice drop and yes I have pics to remind her that she know what she was getting in to

That's a great story Jonny, definitely a keeper!

Rusty

[Yummyrum]

Come on Jonny , you know the rule ,if there are no pics , it didn’t happen

[Dancing4dan]

Shorts, T-shirt , thongs (flip flops) yes I'm Aussie.

Summer , shorts and thongs.

Huh! Where I’m from you may hang your flip flop in a thong. Must mean something different on the upside down part of the world!

[quadra]

I grew up in an Aussie family in Canada, we learned early that thongs were something you stuck your foot in... and it wasn't until the late 70s or early 80s that "" thong" bikini or underwear became a normal term here.. I still can't call footwear thongs without my kids cracking up.

Edit: can't even talk about Jesus boots without people getting all inflamed....

[Deplorable]

Shorts, T-shirt , thongs (flip flops) yes I'm Aussie.

Summer , shorts and thongs.

Huh! Where I’m from you may hang your flip flop in a thong. Must mean something different on the upside down part of the world!

Growing up they were usually flip flops and occasionally we heard the term thongs, but a "thong" to me has always been synonymous with a G-string or "butt floss" . In the Army, everyone called them "shower shoes".
For a while my kids knew them as chew toys, because the pup seemed to always chew them, but never shoes.

[jonnys_spirit]

Come on Jonny , you know the rule ,if there are no pics , it didn’t happen

Don't tempt me Yummy because then you can't give me the ban-hammer when I comply

Cheers,
jonny