Running a still....
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what have you got to work with?
How big is your still?
How big is your still?
...around 20 Gal. a hour.
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That's over my head
Fifty years ago, I made a still out of some small drums and a bucket. I cut a eight inch hole in the lid on the small drum, I want to say it was about the size of a ten gallon drum. I then put, again I am not sure but I think I put forty lbs of hog shorts, with twenty lbs of sugar brung it to a boil and then let it sit and ferment for a while. I want to say we waited two or three days waiting for the mash to get right. When it was ready we put the lid on the drum and then placed the small two gallon bucket over the hole. we packed mud around the drum top and up the sides of the bucket.
I should have said that the drum was sitting over a propane burner. Anyway we had a small hole coming out of the top of the upside down bucket and copper tubing coil that carried the finished product through two half drums full of water and dripped into a jar at the bottom.
We didn't sell it, we drank it and it was pretty good moonshine.
We only cooked off two or three runs. The stuff really smelled and back then nobody was looking for pot but the law was all over moonshine. What with the smell and time involved and the fact that you could buy it for eight bucks a gallon back then, made cooking it your self a foolish thing to do.
What do you have in mind?
Fifty years ago, I made a still out of some small drums and a bucket. I cut a eight inch hole in the lid on the small drum, I want to say it was about the size of a ten gallon drum. I then put, again I am not sure but I think I put forty lbs of hog shorts, with twenty lbs of sugar brung it to a boil and then let it sit and ferment for a while. I want to say we waited two or three days waiting for the mash to get right. When it was ready we put the lid on the drum and then placed the small two gallon bucket over the hole. we packed mud around the drum top and up the sides of the bucket.
I should have said that the drum was sitting over a propane burner. Anyway we had a small hole coming out of the top of the upside down bucket and copper tubing coil that carried the finished product through two half drums full of water and dripped into a jar at the bottom.
We didn't sell it, we drank it and it was pretty good moonshine.
We only cooked off two or three runs. The stuff really smelled and back then nobody was looking for pot but the law was all over moonshine. What with the smell and time involved and the fact that you could buy it for eight bucks a gallon back then, made cooking it your self a foolish thing to do.
What do you have in mind?
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