make your own... www.homedistiller.org thank goodness for the kiwis. check out the "buy a still" section. A. Nonymous gives a protocol for shipping into an unfriendly country.. makes the anarchist in me smile... apologies if anyones posted this before - im never in here.
My teacher was telling me about this stuff she used to make for College Parties... I forget what it was called but they would make it in a bathtub and you'd just dip your cup in and drink. If anyone has any idea please let me know!
well myself, i would start with everclear. its the simplest from what ive read. from there, if i had success, i would prolly get into making grain whiskeys. building new stills, trying new systems and what not. what would you make?
Oh wow,I would distill everything. That's how you increase the proof,right? I think it's complicated,but from what I understand,liquor can only reach a certain proof through fermentation. If it's distilled though,and the coils trap the concentrated liquid,then the proof increases. So,I am making homemade vodka right now but the proof is going to be low,if I were to distill it,it would be just like the vodka you can buy in stores. Then of course,I would make corn mash,moonshine....I don't even drink usually,but I love to make liquor
thats cool. yeah i guess you have a fermented stock, which you put in the still, the alcohol evaporates first and goes up the column, then you tap it off somewhere along the way, which gets you your concentrated alcohol. You should totally build one . or find one of your friends and convince them to do it. its all hardware store parts, and the diagrams and such are all on the website. you can make a stovetop one , that gets you like 600 ml of 90% alcohol per cook.. The simple ones dont give you flavoured alcohol tho, you get basically a vodka, which is right up your alley anyway... whats your recipie for vodka ? is it a secret? ive never fermented anything before... oh and the pear jug band is hilarious
you just dont get it man. leave our thread alone now. If i could cook my own, thats probably 25 bux a week id be saving. an extra 100 in my pocket evry month is fine with me. go ahead and blow your cash if you want to, but i'm tired of it.
i remember something else cool you can do with everclear. you can use it to rinse pot with, giving you a drinkable THC/alcohol tincture. I had this once before - it came from a glaucoma sufferer, and it was fun . i only had a half oz shot of it, and it gave me a nice, giggly body buzz... i wasnt ripped off a half oz at all, but i could feel the potential.
some points worth mentioning judging from other posts.... -nothing is liquor until it's distilled. you can't make liquor from fermentation alone...wine, beer, sake, whatever, but not liquor. -everclear is, i believe, a brand name for a 100% or close to 100% ethanol product. distilling your alcohol to this type of purity doesnt make everclear, it makes moonshine. its like how you can also make your own sodapop at home, and if you make it with cola flavorings, you're just making cola, not pepsi. -using a still inside the home is exceedingly dangerous. you need precise temperatures and pressures and all that, and you risk explosion. people have died trying to distill their own liquor at home for profit or savings. -i can't speak for other countries of course, but in the case of us readers...distillation is heavily regulated by the federal government and requires proper licensing and clearance. it's a noisy process and a proper still often takes a large amount of space. for safety reasons you should NEVER operate a still in your home even if you're pretty sure it's safe, but for legal reasons if you wish to operate a clandestine still you need to find a secluded area in the woods where you are CERTAIN it won't be stumbled upon anytime soon, and then further hide it to keep suspician low and gaurd the area. while you can buy moonshine in any of the US states as far as i know, theres a DAMN GOOD REASON why it's almost always made in rural areas (particularly appalachia) in the mountains. you can't be caught by authorities, and you can't be caught by loudmouth civilians. -you can buy liquor, even cheap liquor, in every state anyway, and you dont risk personal injury, fines, or imprisonment. you also dont risk any impurities in your liquor, and are garaunteed consistant quality among a brand. just because you know how to distill and make your own liquor doesnt mean you're going to make GOOD liquor. remember: all liquor, when first taken from the still, is CLEAR...things like rum and whiskey get their coloration, and much of their flavor, from processes such as aging in barrels that have undergone certain treatments. you can be garaunteed that if you get a bottle of captain morgan's private stock that you'll get a tastey, drinkable, sweetly flavored brown liquor....if you make your own rum, you may end up with something nearly, if not entirely, disgusting and undrinkable. -homebrewing beer, wine, and sake is ENTIRELY legal in most states, even without a license, so long as you don't sell it without a license. it can be done affordably, and with just a little practice and patience you can make beer or wine of much better quality than you'd buy in a store. most cities have homebrewing stores which cater to individuals wishing to make their own beverages, and will offer advice, as well as offer for sale all the equipment and ingredients youll need, and probably a number of good books as well. brewing lower alcohol beverages is much, much safer than distilling your own spirits. -while many people drink liquor exclusively anyway, having large amounts of liquor on hand will tempt many people to consume unhealthy levels of alcohol consistantly. liquor is stronger and it's easy to drink too much too fast. imo, its good for a party or on occasion, but not all the time. for some people, this can lead to trouble one way or another.
you just dont get it, but thanks for the clarifications in terminology. distilling is like anything else in life. not that easy, but also not that hard. there is a satisfaction in producing your own product thats totally missing from spending 26 dollars on 750 mls of cheap ass whiskey. not to mention if you grew the fruit that you ferment and distill. Its a hobby, just like people who grow one light worth of pot will tend and love their plants alot more than someone whos got ten lights running and is just in it for the pounds and money. I'm pretty sure i can keep my closet size, stovetop still hush hush. and when broken down, it looks like waste plumbing items. these days, as long as you dont point to it and say - guess what? thats a still, - your average 20-30 something wont even know what the hell it is. people always say about weed - "its natural man", well guess what, so is alcohol. the govt has rendered it illegal to manufacture your own so they can regulate and tax it. lets say i start my friday night with a bottle of canadian club. At the end of the night, i will have consumed the entire bottle and be ripped to the tits, if i was mixing rye/cokes. now if i drink it exclusively on the rocks, i will have sipped my drink all night, and only drunk half a bottle or so. theres many ways to moderate. hard liquor isnt any worse than beer. its all the personality drinking it. safety. I have accepted long ago that i am responsible for my own safety in every crazy thing i do. thats why i read extensively before i take on anything hazardous. I'm meticulous by nature, and patient also. dont worry about me. large amounts of liquor on hand. I'm not talking about 55 gal drums of mash, in a weekly rotating cycle. I'm talking being able to tap off a bottles worth every week or two. The idea of distilling isnt for everyone i guess. i think i'll go dig up a mash recipe now, and get this shit started.
Sure,you can have my recipe for vodka...I'll type it up and PM it to you. It's surprisingly easy to make. Now that you mention it,I have a recipe for making a marijuana/everclear tincture. I haven't ever used it though. I only make wines and hard ciders here at home. I have been around stills,but only for making corn mash. I know how to make that,but I've never made any distilled fruit based liquors. I would try it though. A stovetop still shouldn't be any more dangerous than a pressure cooker or canner. You don't have to worry about those dangerous impurities that occured 70 years ago. You can make things at home that you can't buy,and yes,it is illegal...but so is marijuana and many other things. If it takes money away from big companies or the government can't tax it..then it's illegal. Besides,what most people in trouble for is bootlegging,not the making of the liquor.
nearly my entire life i've been exposed to homebrewing, i'm one of the few people to whom the smell of hops and malt and stuff brings back memories of childhood. i've also pursued my own somewhat similar hobby of indoor at-home psilocybin mushroom cultivation. i'm highly interested in marijuana growing and several of my friends or their parents grow. trust me, i understand how good it feels to get to consume something YOU worked to create, how nice it is to have patience, learning, and work pay off, and so on. and i'm not saying its irresponsible or that everyone who does it is going to mess something up in a dangerous way. if you really researched into it, know everything you really need to know to do it safely, i'm sure you're gonna be fine. but that doesnt mean that everyone on here is the same way. i'm not saying you SHOULDNT use a small still at home, i'm saying that for most people it's probably not the best option when there are safer alternatives. if you're going to do something illegal of this nature, i'd suggest brewing beer, wine, or sake or something, which is perfectly 100% legal and with absolutely NO risk of an explosion or legal problems or anything. if you can do it safely, then more power to you, i just wanted to point a few things out to people considering doing this who don't know anything at all about it. everything of this nature, whether its making liquor or beer or wine or growing pot or shrooms or whatever at all it is you're making, will have some definite downsides to it as well. while not everyone is going to blow their still up or get caught, some people do, and when it happens it can be a pretty bad situation.
however people that grow pot smoke a lot of pot. people that brew beer drink a lot of beer. people that grow mushrooms trip a LOT. i'd assume that people who distill their own liquor will often drink more of it as well. it just sort of goes with the territory, if something you like and enjoy becomes readily available and actually offers MORE stimulation (through the process of creating it) than it previously did (just drink it) then people, generally, will end up spending more time pursuing it. thats not to say that you do, i have no evidence to suggest you drink a lot or a little, but on the whole, people will generally consume more of something if they're the ones making it. i just think that it may well be suitable for SOME people, but these are probably exceptions to the norm. i think homebrew or marijuana cultivation or something may be a bit more accessible and safe, and even then most people probably arent up for this. i was a little overzealous in my first post, but the points i made are still grounded in truth. i think you may have misenterpreted my comments to readers in general to be directed at you. it may well be possible to use a still in the home safely, and you may be able to do it perfectly well, but that doesnt mean that its generally safe to distill liquor indoors with a makeshift still, and my generalized advice to people reading this still stands that you SHOULDN'T ever distill liquor at home. it's just not a good idea for most people.
hey, i 'm just defensive of my ideas is all. i dont really want to fight either. As far as other activities go - the police are all over the pot growing in my town, because there 's so damn much of it going on. so to do it covertly, the equipment expense is way out of my league. and i dont smoke enough pot to to care anyway. I'm a former grower myself, so i know about this intimately. I was into it as a cash crop and it cost me so much more than i got out of it, i wish i'd never started. whats left of my equip is sitting in my garage, gathering dust. Proper pot cultivation is also much more labour and time consuming than fermenting and distilling. homebrew... i dunno, it just doesnt appeal to me the same way. shrooms on the other hand . Unfortunately I always had a bitch of a time with contams when it came to fruiting, and i couldnt get past it. I'll have to try again some day. thanks for the recipe link, wondergirl. You should check out homedistiller one day, they have hundreds of pages of recipies and charts and techniques and such. I think i'm just going with a basic water, sugar, yeast, nutrient mix, since the still i want to make only produces 'neutral' alcohol anyway. you get no flavour of the ingriedients.
i dunno, i love the idea of homebrewing. if my father ever gets around to showing me how to do it (once he's well enough to do things like this again) i'm definitely going to start practicing, read a few books on it, etc. i'm a beer lover, but i hate the shit most people drink, i like good beer, and i like working for something i love (i.e. mushrooms ) so i think i'd like homebrewing....brewing sake sounds a lot easier though, and i LOVE sake, so i'm sure i'll try that someday, too. liquor though, i dunno...i'll stick with captain morgan's private stock, haha i like getting some good vodka or something and making liqueurs with it at home, though, which requires no distillation. i liked the amaretto i made....not so overwhelmingly sweet as storebought, it was nice. i dont know about laws where you live, but around here its pretty easy to be discrete about growing pot, because it's been deemed unconstitutional to use the heat/infrared sensors on a house without already having a search permit anyway, in which case they'll just go in and look around. the only thing you have to worry about is smell (in apartment buildings and if you're growing a lot and people live real close to you) or noise (with a hydroponic setup, espec. if it's in the garage or something...also, keeping it away from windows and such but you take the cost of getting some decent genetics, some soil, some nutes, and energy for the lights...if you do it right and sell the pot, you should be making more than that amount back if its good pot. but then, i dont know the market price where you live. here you can get 50USD for 3.5g of good pot. growing three or four female plants under the right conditions with a good genetic history, you should get enough to make some cash and have some to smoke, definitely....i dunno though.... just wish i had my own house so i could get into this. i never wanted to spend the money on equipment, and i just lived in a townhouse this past year...i dunno, when i'm more out on my own it will be cool, i'm sure. mushrooms are pretty simple....did you use the PF tek? i've never had contamination problems when fruiting, if there was ever a problem it would manifest during colonization. even then, i have to guiltily admit i did try to fruit a few ever so slightly moldy jars before and still got great results, and didnt get poisoned from the shrooms they produced or anything (never sold shrooms more than once or twice, it always just went to me or a friend or my ex...dont grow anymore, but i did for a couple years...actually started when i was still in highschool)
