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UnleadedRadiator
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Hello Yall! I come to this website from the middle region of the Great State of Oklahoma, but please do us both a favor and don't call me an okie. Read some history to find out why. Reading a little history on the sometimes not-so-fine art of distilling will also give you a small hint toward my username. My family, way back, come from the hills of Tennessee, Kentucky and Virginia as well. Most of my relatives in the area worked tobacco and also made moonshine for personal consumption, medicine and profit.
My first personal interest in moonshine and distilling began to develop when I was about nine years old, while I was reading through the Foxfire series. That fantastic series of books covers hundreds of different old world survival and living skills, one of which is moonshining. Armed with that knowledge and a copy of Back To Basics, which covered beer and winemaking. I slowly began the journey that has brought me here.
I have made a few rums, many beers, wine, braggot, I have a whiskey wort that has aged five years on grain that smells amazing, that I have been too lazy to run while working on smaller projects, but when that is finished I intend to begin my first gin project.
My current still is a Frankenstein pot still made from a 15gal stainless steel milk jug, several ferrules and a bunch of silver soldered 2" copper pipe. The current condenser is a large 36" copper Liebig I constructed from 1/2" internal pipe encased in a 1" copper jacket, and since messing with electrical control units and the possibility of burnt elements makes my eyes want to crawl out of my head, I'm cookin' with gas.
SW_Shiner
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Welcome to the forum. Sounds like you got yourself quite the rig there.
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Twisted Brick
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Welcome in, U-Rad. Sounds like you got stillin' in your blood.

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BlackStrap
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Location: The hills of Appalachia

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Glad to have you UnleadedRadiator

You'll find there is lots of reading here, and most of questions you may have will be answered.
Sounds like you have some intriguing things going on

Have fun & stay safe!
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