Moonshine starts with a mixture (MASH), which can be made of any fermentable substance. The most common is a mixture yeast ,sugar, and water. Sugars for the MASH can be derived from a variety of sources, such as corn, grapes and other fruits, potatoes, malt sugars, corn sugars, or any other fermentable sugar or fruit.
An alcohol-tolerant yeast strain is then added to the mash, which is then fermented, ideally between 70-85 degrees. Fermentation times vary depending on the yeast strain, ranging from one week to a month. Using a bubbler airlock will give you an indication of when fermentation has ceased or has slowed down to less than one bubble in 5 minutes.
There are two ways you can distill the mash. The first one is to take the entire mash, solids and liquids, and introduce it to the boiling pot. The second is to first decant the liquid from the solids, and introduce that to the pot. Not decanting may add flavors to the distillate that would be different if not decanted.
The physical process of removing alcohol from the mash is simple. Raise the temperature of the mash from between 173 and 190 degrees. The boiling point of alcohol is much less than water, which boils at 212 degrees, so the alcohol vaporizes first.
The pot is connected to a column or just a condenser, which can be a copper coil, or worm, or a cold-water-jacketed tube.
A column still progressively "refluxes" the distillate at different temperature levels in the column, resulting in a purer shine exiting the top while the heavier alcohols and other stuff drips back into the pot.
A pot still with just a copper "worm" will produce a less pure and less potent, but more distinctive shine.
In old days, triple distillation through a pot still would achieve purer alcohol, indicated by XXX on the bottle.
Today, alcohol will sometimes go through a pot still first, making a "wine", then redistilled through a reflux-column still, although with modern reflux-column stills this process is not necessary because a reflux-column still can produced virtually pure alcohol on the first pass.
The alcohol vapors pass through the condenser, which acts the same way as a cold bottle does when it condenses water on the outside. The condensate, alcohol in this instance, drips out the bottom and into a collection bottle.
The shine can be consumed immediately, cut with water to make a less-potent version, filtered through activated carbon, introduced with oak chips for flavor or color, burned in your flex-fuel car, or anything else you can think of.
Moonshine starts with a mixture (mash), which can be made of any fermentable substance. The most common is a mixture yeast ,sugar, and water. Sugars for the mash can be derived from a variety of sources, such as corn, grapes and other fruits, potatoes, malt sugars, corn sugars, or any other fermentable sugar or fruit.
An alcohol-tolerant yeast strain is then added to the mash, which is then fermented, ideally between 70-85 degrees. Fermentation times vary depending on the yeast strain, ranging from one week to a month. Using a bubbler airlock will give you an indication of when fermentation has ceased or has slowed down to less than one bubble in 5 minutes.
There are two ways you can distill the mash. The first one is to take the entire mash, solids and liquids, and introduce it to the boiling pot. The second is to first decant the liquid from the solids, and introduce that to the pot. Not decanting may add flavors to the distillate that would be different if not decanted.
The physical process of removing alcohol from the mash is simple. Raise the temperature of the mash from between 173 and 190 degrees. The boiling point of alcohol is much less than water, which boils at 212 degrees, so the alcohol vaporizes first.
The pot is connected to a column or just a condenser, which can be a copper coil, or worm, or a cold-water-jacketed tube.
A column still progressively "refluxes" the distillate at different temperature levels in the column, resulting in a purer shine exiting the top while the heavier alcohols and other stuff drips back into the pot.
A pot still with just a copper "worm" will produce a less pure and less potent, but more distinctive shine.
In old days, triple distillation through a pot still would achieve purer alcohol, indicated by XXX on the bottle.
Today, alcohol will sometimes go through a pot still first, making a "wine", then redistilled through a reflux-column still, although with modern reflux-column stills this process is not necessary because a reflux-column still can produced virtually pure alcohol on the first pass.
The alcohol vapors pass through the condenser, which acts the same way as a cold bottle does when it condenses water on the outside. The condensate, alcohol in this instance, drips out the bottom and into a collection bottle.
The shine can be consumed immediately, cut with water to make a less-potent version, filtered through activated carbon, introduced with oak chips for flavor or color, burned in your flex-fuel car, or anything else you can think of.
Boil corn, collecting steam in copper tubing that is run through water to allow the steam to cool and condense. The condensed liquid drips from the tubing into a glass container. Moonshine. Note, more coils in tubing, the stronger the liquor.
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Can you make Moonshine legally in South Carolina
Yes, you can make moonshine outside in the winter time.
No, a person cannot make moonshine legally in Alabama. Alabama state law forbids the making or distilling of moonshine whiskey. The state of Alabama has created a special task force to stop the illegal making of moonshine.
Yes!
yes mountain moonshine is one of the many distilleries in west Virginia that legally produces and sells moonshine
Moonshine is a name used for illegally produced, home made alcohol.
not in the united states. it is a felony. You even have to get a special permit to make moonshine for scientific reasons. it is legal, however, to make beer.
No.
Not moving or a place to make moonshine.
by masterbating in it
People are allowed to make alcohol for their own consumption but not for sale. So yes moonshine is illegal to sell.