how to make moonshine (Still Making Moonshine)

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Jim Tom sets up his still inside a camper. Sample from the new feature length documentary "Still Making Moonshine"
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[dmann0009]

someone should tell these guys that prohibition is over and unless they live in a dry county, don't have to go to these lengths anymore

[highproof]

@dmann0009 It is a dry county.

[JohnDeere30201]

@g1598 america was built on people like this think before you speak

[resqjason2]

@dmann0009 cheaper to make your own... and your not payin taxes to the man

[TheCabinetmaster]

@ngc4448 A watered down product. When you get above a certain temperature, you will be boiling the water, thus lifting the water with the alcohol. Around 170 deg Fahrenheit is the level at which the alcohol will boil. At that point you can evaporate the alcohol and leave the water. If you get it too hot or at around 212 degrees Fahrenheit then you will be vaporizing the water, alcohol, and all. This will just dilute your final product and you wont have the desired percentage/proof.

[TheCabinetmaster]

@jimtrash1020 Well now isn't this a Classic!! Someone that can't even spell a grade school level word (anamal) is calling someone else a "Hick"........EPIC!!!!

[jimtrash1020]

it keeps these hicks from killing anamals

[lx2036]

Fyi, its all pretty easy to do. Just start with a small still and go from there. homedistiller org will tell you how, and you can buy a still from whiskeystill net

[lx2036]

@ngc4448 a lower abv% moonshine

[MRXFX91]

@dmann0009

Moonshine is better than anything you get in the store. Everclear may have the potency of moonshine but it has a hell of a burn! Shine has no burn and the flavor can be hidden to where it doesn't even taste like alcohol.

[PyroChemicals2]

@LushCrusher Wine and beer have a much more massive market share, especially beer, but they are both legal to make. The only reason moonshine is not legal is because of the mythology surrounding it. On a federal and state level people still believe moonshine has lethal levels of methanol and is tainted with lead.

Socially progressive countries like New Zealand and Italy allow distilling, but America is still largely stuck in the prohibition era. Canada and Australia, moreso.

[ngc4448]

What if you boil your mash too hot, what will you end up making?