How to make whiskey?!
How to make whiskey?
Answers:
Yes - it is illegal to distill in the UK but if you must then here it is:
Purchase 5 lbs of barley and spread on a clean surface - wet with a watering can. Turn twice a day until barley begins to sprout.
Place in oven in batches on a tray and roast until golden brown - you then have the malt to make your whiskey.
Crush malt and put it with 5 galls water in a home brew beer boiler and set thermostat according to instructions. Hold temp for about 3 hours. This will turn the malt starch into fermentable sugars.
Cool the liquid and place in a home brew fermenting bucket and add wine yeast. Ferment for about 10 days or until all activity in bucket has ceased (check with hydrometer to be sure). Now distill - put liquid back in beer boiler with polythene pipe coming out of lid which is attached to a further coil of copper pipe with a tap on the end. Heat the liquid gently and do not boil - raw alcohol will begin to drip out of the tap. The first half pint or so has to be thrown away - dangerous as it carries harmful types of alcohol. Then put the rest in an oak barrel for about 8 years.
The result will be disgusting, poisonous and undrinkable. Seriously - it is for the experts as distilation is a science. Not done properly at best you will lose your eysight and at worse your life.
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You need a 30' high chimney.
That is how the Irish poocheen brewers got caught by the Customs men when they were hidden in the hills.
But try:-
Add a teaspoon of water to a saucepan containing a litre of whiskey. Do not heat, and do not stir. Pour into a decanter. Because that is as close as you will ever get.
Try the library
they got books with pictures.
And the laws.....
making whiskey is still unfortunately illeagal. beer and wine are the only two things you can make at home legally.
You need a still to do this also it is illegal to make your own.