If you've ever....you might be a Stiller

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If you’ve ever interrupted two cops who we’re arguing about moonshine and were so completely wrong you had to step in and correct them and then spend 13 more minutes explaining how to malt barley, do an all grain run, how to do cuts, You might be a distiller!!
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When snot comes out your nose reading the bullshit on the back label on a bottle in the bottle shop
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I had heard a radio ad for a Feed & Seed Store for "Hunter Appreciation Days".
Happened to be "in the neighborhood" yesterday so I stopped by.
I've read that when looking for sweet feed, Horse feed has less additives.
A lot of it was pelletized but they had an entire aisle - both sides - of Equine Feed.

Some stuff that had me thinkin...
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That's a good price for feed corn. The Tractor Supply stores around here want 2, to almost 3 times that price.

Reading the nutrition percentages in the 1st (sweet mix) picture, reminded me that I once wrote a little program to keep records of the calories and nutrition that several brood mares were getting. (That was back in the 1980's, on an Apple II, before there was an Internet).

Another thing. Alfalfa hay is too good a hay to waste on horses. Horses don't have 4 stomachs like cows do; they're not anatomically designed to metabolize a lot of nutrition and protein. Instead they just poop it out and move along.
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TDick wrote: ↑Sat Sep 06, 2025 1:18 pm
they had an entire aisle - both sides - of Equine Feed.

I'd skip the mixes and stick with the single grains: wheat, oats, rye, corn.

There are a lot of options there and they're all good.
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I'd agree with that. Tried some mixes that tasted terrible
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Ive been thinking of trying a hen scratch thats
Corn, wheat and milo, seems like it would be pretty good
I think I'll go home and fire up my still, it might not make me feel better but, I bet it will
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I would think that a mix like: Corn, wheat and milo would need to be milled into a fine dust to give the yeast access to all nutrients.
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If you ever did this . . .
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Sitting on a stunning beach mulling about the quince orchard you passed yesterday trying figure out how many kilos you would need to make run.
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PalCabral wrote: ↑Sun Jul 12, 2026 8:43 am Sitting on a stunning beach mulling about the quince orchard you passed yesterday trying figure out how many kilos you would need to make run.
Its bad, isn't it!! At least your pondering lifes questions on the beach
I think I'll go home and fire up my still, it might not make me feel better but, I bet it will
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