Home Distiller

Ok, I got 15 carboys and few airlocks from a garage sale for $75 bucks.
My grandpa was a good ole boy and talked about how the shine was made, I think I got the basics. I steamed the glass carboy clean, added 10 (yes thats allot) Lbs of sugar to 4 liters of water and 3 Lbs of flake maze (Yuppy talk for cracked corn) Boiled it all together added that to the carboy with water fillin up 7/8 of the space. Is this an ok recipe??

I added super high gravity yeast from white labs, and have kept it 72-75 F. Is this ok to use sine I could not get Turbo yeast? It should be good 18-20 % before the yeast die off. My first batch did produce hooch . My first still was a 2000ML (2 liter) still glass flask with a rubber stopper in the top and 12 feet of copper 3/8 tubing I straightened out to travel down off the stove to the jar. A better design is in the works, What parts would I be ok buying IE steam cooker at walmart etc. I think my still needs refinement... but I have made a little bit thus far, it lights on fire and gets ya lit... Hooray . Guys I look to you for help.. Start me off making white lightning today and its burbon tomorrow... Cheers

I'm confused - what are you asking?

Whatever it is, the answer's probably on the parent site. Read, read, read. I knew nothing at all of this hobby three months ago, and I can turn out a decent spirit with the knowledge I've gleaned here.

i aint sure bout liters but aint that bout 5 lbs to the gal.
thats bout 250 lbs to the barel. say your ole granpap teached you that.

If that's a 5 gallon carboy you're using ... my calculations show that would produce about 10-11% alc. if all went right. As long as you have a good strong yeast that should go ok.

I'm not really good at making shine though, I make other things. I can't comment on the actual flavor you'd get from that wash...but the percentages sound ok.

cheers

~r~

This is a similar recipe to UJSM (Uncle Jesses Sour Mash). You should travel over to the "tried and true" recipes, and look at that recipe. It will be much superior in production of quality shine. There are literally hundreds of folks in these forums who have tried that recipe. Very, very few have ever complained about it, if any.

H.

mad i stand corected. i didnt read where you added more water. how big is that jug. 2 3 4 5 or 6 gal
corn gonna make a cap an that cap gonna want to go up. mite wanna try corn in a bucket.
so im tole