Hobby

mountainman · Post by **mountainman** » Sun Dec 30, 2007 8:59 am

How would you go about meeting someone in local area to get together to run a small batch every once in awhile.Other friends seem to have no interest.Working on Taters blueberry liquor now hope it turns out good!!!
Georgia

OldManP · Post by **OldManP** » Sun Dec 30, 2007 9:50 am

I'd like advice on this too! I got no mentors to help me in person. My job keeps me traveling from time to time so I'd love to meet up with different people in different areas.
Maybe we could somehow arrange meetings that would not attract too much attention from outside folks or the law--don't know how yet, but I'll keep thinking

stoker · Post by **stoker** » Sun Dec 30, 2007 11:07 am

should be nice, but bear in mind this hobby is not very legal, if things happen, you don't get very good along with your co-distiller, ...
and the distance ofcourse, bujapat must be the closest one to me, but he's still pritty far away

As-Ol-Joe · Post by **As-Ol-Joe** » Sun Dec 30, 2007 11:44 am

I would like to have someone to compare notes with, and samples.
But who?
Are you a revenuer?
Am I a revenuer? I promise you on my childrens graves, I'm not.

I would be willing to take a chance if anyone else is.

punkin · Post by **punkin** » Sun Dec 30, 2007 4:20 pm

Probably easier on the East coast of Oz to organise, but you guys are facing some large distances over there.
Believe you already have a Moonshine Festival over there?

Could be easy enough to organise a coastal town for a long w'end here.

Sorta Jamboree thing where people can book a holiday and meet at a club or hall or picnic ground for tastings, judging ect. Keep it low key at first, then you'd be able to ramp it up a bit in a few years. No-one'd be actually stilling there...least not in public, so there'd be a way to phrase things that'd keep the law on side. Maybe say it's store based vodka with custom flavourings or something. Thery're selling stills and flavourings in every hardware/brew/minimart in Australia. Not like anyone else is playing low key.

Who knows? Could become a festival

Post by **HookLine** » Sun Dec 30, 2007 5:01 pm

punkin wrote:Keep it low key at first, then you'd be able to ramp it up a bit in a few years. No-one'd be actually stilling there...least not in public, so there'd be a way to phrase things that'd keep the law on side. Maybe say it's store based vodka with custom flavourings or something. Thery're selling stills and flavourings in every hardware/brew/minimart in Australia. Not like anyone else is playing low key.

Who knows? Could become a festival

Well, there is a kind of precedent for that sort of thing in Ozland, the annual Nimbin hippie festival, where thousands of young folk (and a few older ones too) descend upon the sleepy hamlet of Nimbin and smoke their brains out in full view of the law, who turn a blind eye and only make sure nobody gets hurt or is trading in the harder stuff.

CoopsOz · Post by **CoopsOz** » Sun Dec 30, 2007 5:21 pm

Yeah, except now Nimbin has been ruined by all the smack heads.

alice · Post by **alice** » Sun Dec 30, 2007 6:43 pm

punkin wrote: Could be easy enough to organise a coastal town for a long w'end here.

Sorta Jamboree thing where people can book a holiday and meet at a club or hall or picnic ground for tastings, judging ect. Keep it low key at first, then you'd be able to ramp it up a bit in a few years. No-one'd be actually stilling there...least not in public, so there'd be a way to phrase things that'd keep the law on side. Maybe say it's store based vodka with custom flavourings or something. Thery're selling stills and flavourings in every hardware/brew/minimart in Australia. Not like anyone else is playing low key.

Who knows? Could become a festival

Hmm, you got me thinking now....(I have a little experience in this, having done most of the organising & advertising for a pretty big bike & hot rod show for the last 13 years round here)...

I reckon somewhere in the backwoods but near the coast... places like Wauchope, Taylors Arm, Nana Glen/Glenreagh etc spring to mind....

punkin · Post by **punkin** » Sun Dec 30, 2007 10:01 pm

I'd certainly travel to a w'end once a year, start with a few of us here and end up with the town behind us sponsoring it...

Rudi · Post by **Rudi** » Sun Dec 30, 2007 11:11 pm

Id be keen need some notice tho to convince the cheese and kisses (its all about how you present things)

Froggy · Post by **Froggy** » Sun Dec 30, 2007 11:16 pm

I'd be keen.

Post by **HookLine** » Sun Dec 30, 2007 11:35 pm

Sounds interesting, but it is a long, long trip for me, I live in the deep tropical north.

However, I am almost certainly moving permanently to SE Queensland (Sunshine Coast region) in about 2-3 years. So I'll be able to turn up then.

What's the plan for only letting in genuine home distillers, and keeping the revenoors and freeloaders out?

Froggy · Post by **Froggy** » Mon Dec 31, 2007 12:03 am

Maybe just allow people from this forum with so many 'real' posts.

stoker · Post by **stoker** » Mon Dec 31, 2007 12:06 am

HookLine wrote:What's the plan for only letting in genuine home distillers, and keeping the revenoors and freeloaders out?

a good start would be to keep things off of a public board

Post by **HookLine** » Mon Dec 31, 2007 12:16 am

stoker wrote:
HookLine wrote:What's the plan for only letting in genuine home distillers, and keeping the revenoors and freeloaders out?
a good start would be to keep things off of a public board

Indeed. One of things I had in mind was organising it via PM.

Rudi · Post by **Rudi** » Mon Dec 31, 2007 1:07 am

HookLine wrote:Indeed. One of things I had in mind was organising it via PM.

Perhaps a not so public forum

Post by **HookLine** » Mon Dec 31, 2007 1:15 am

Rudi wrote:
HookLine wrote:Indeed. One of things I had in mind was organising it via PM.
Perhaps a not so public forum

Not sure what you mean there, Rudi.

stoker · Post by **stoker** » Mon Dec 31, 2007 2:08 am

some topics or forums could be blocked from being seen by unregistered guests, or even by the majority of the registered members.

OldManP · Post by **OldManP** » Mon Dec 31, 2007 10:41 am

so who's to say who gets to come and who can't...and when everyone arrives at this 'location' how then do you separate those who belong and those who shouldn't 'belong' there...

punkin · Post by **punkin** » Mon Dec 31, 2007 11:49 am

OldManP wrote:so who's to say who gets to come and who can't...and when everyone arrives at this 'location' how then do you separate those who belong and those who shouldn't 'belong' there...

I'd say it'd be the organiser/s

wouldn't be too hard to introduce a code...red carnation etc

I think you lot are being much too paranoid. If the poe leece wanted us, it'd be an easy trace across the internet, even for those lazy bastards. Wouldn't have to come crashing our little bbq.

After all, it's only a matter of bottles of alchohol and a few happy snaps of stuff.

MiddleOfWinter'dBeGoodWhenTheFishing'sOffPunkin