How do you make moonshine?!
How do you make moonshine?
Answers:
Moonshine Recipe: http://www.ibiblio.org/moonshine/make/ho...
The basic ingredients:
* corn meal
* sugar
* water
* yeast
* malt
The basic process:
Mix all ingredients together in a large container. After mixing, move the mixture, called "mash," into a still and leave it to ferment. How quickly this process occurs depends on the warmth of the mash.
Heat the mash to the point of vaporization at 173 degrees. The mash will produce a clear liquid, often the color of dark beer. You must watch this process with careful attention.
Trap vapor using a tube or coil. The vapor will be transferred into a second, empty container. The resulting condensation is the moonshine. It is then ready to drink or sell.
Keep mash in container. It is now called "slop." Add more sugar, water, malt, and corn meal and repeat the process.
Repeat the process up to eight times before replacing the mash.
Basics of Bootleggin' and Moonshinin'
Here are the basics....a bootlegger is a person that sells illegal whiskey and a moonshiner is a person who makes the whiskey illegally. Moonshine goes by many names such as:
* corn liquor
* white lightning
* sugar whiskey
* skull cracker
* popskull
* bush whiskey
* stump
* stumphole
* 'splo
* ruckus juice
* rotgut
* stumphole
* catdaddy
* mule kick
* hillbilly pop
* white lightning
* panther's breath
* tiger's sweat
* sweet spirits of cats a-fighting
* alley bourbon
* city gin
* cool water
* happy Sally
* blue John
* jump steady
* see seven stars
* old horsey
* block and tackle
* wild cat
Parts for a still
Small still for use in a basement, Wilkes County
Appalachian Cultural Museum
Appalachian State University, Boone, NC
The term moonshine originated in Europe and was used in England in the 1700's. It originally referred to "occupational pursuits which necessitated night work, or work by the light of the moon."
Source(s):
http://www.ibiblio.org/moonshine/make/ma...
It shines on its own. ca'nt quite reach it with my turtle wax.
Should an athlete be drinking something lethal??
If you want to know how it actually works instead of just a recipe, learn to make beer (that's how it starts...as beer). Learning that, you understand how malted grains are converted into fermentable sugars and then fermented into alcohol with yeast.
Once you can make beer (or wine, for that matter), you then need to learn how to distill. This concentrates the alcohol made by fermentation and gives you moonshine (or better, depending on how well you wish to do it). The principle is basically heating up the beer until it boils, and cooling the "steam" back to a liquid and collecting the liquid...this works because alcohol boils at a lower temperature than water, so the "steam" is actually alcohol vapor, or rather *mostly* alcohol vapor.
Brewing your own beer and wine at home are perfectly legal almost everywhere. Making moonshine out of it is only legal in New Zealand and a handful of European countries.
Assuming you live in New Zealand, you can learn a TON more about it here:
http://homedistiller.org