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Survival & Self Sustainability => Gardening and Home Winemaking => Topic started by: Ranger99 on September 01, 2012, 09:37:15 AM

Title: Distilled Corn
Post by: Ranger99 on September 01, 2012, 09:37:15 AM

well. . . . . ;D


anyone cook a batch?
share any info? ;)


me no tell :-X

Title: Re: Distilled Corn
Post by: charles p on September 01, 2012, 10:40:27 AM

White dog, white lightning, moonshine.  After aging in oak, its bourbon.

Title: Re: Distilled Corn
Post by: Ranger99 on September 01, 2012, 11:05:58 AM

you make any?


what is it called if
it's aged(? ;D ) in a jar?


any tips to share?
any info?

Title: Re: Distilled Corn
Post by: PowPow on September 01, 2012, 11:32:05 AM

Went on a bourbon distillery tour. I think they said the "aging" is just letting sit there while some evaporates, increasing the concentration, and the rest soaks up the flavor of the inside of the barrel where they burnt it. Seems like aging in glass wouldn't do anything.
There is a legal moonshine factory in Gatlinburg TN where you can see how they make corn liquor (distilled 4 times) and white lightning (distilled 7 times). We bought some home and gave it to my dad for Christmas. He started telling us about how my grandfather drank moonshine on hot days on the farm instead of water. He bought it in white gallon jugs. One day he reached up in the cabinet and pulled down a jug of Clorox instead. Guzzled it before he realized the difference. Hurried to town to the doctor's office. Doctor sent him home, said he was better off drinking Clorox.

Title: Re: Distilled Corn
Post by: longwinters on September 01, 2012, 02:30:59 PM

Working on farms when I was in highschool I sometimes helped put the silage up in the silows.  When it got packed in the weight of it would cause it to compess and man would the juice flow!  A guy could fill up milk trucks with the juice.  Just sayin.......
 
Long

Title: Re: Distilled Corn
Post by: Ranger99 on September 01, 2012, 07:13:24 PM

did you make 'shine with cornstalk juice? :-\

Title: Re: Distilled Corn
Post by: blind ear on September 01, 2012, 07:27:18 PM

I buy mine ready rolled, in a Jim Bean bottle. Over ice with a splash of water works to warm you up or cool you down, what ever is needed. ear

Title: Re: Distilled Corn
Post by: longwinters on September 02, 2012, 04:14:35 PM

Nope, but it was quite sweet.
 
Long

Title: Re: Distilled Corn
Post by: BUGEYE on September 03, 2012, 04:05:43 AM

PowPow, I bought a pint of that in Gatlinburg about a month ago.  had to drag my wife away from the tasting bar.

Title: Re: Distilled Corn
Post by: PowPow on September 03, 2012, 04:28:29 AM

Quote from: BUGEYE on September 03, 2012, 04:05:43 AM

PowPow, I bought a pint of that in Gatlinburg about a month ago.  had to drag my wife away from the tasting bar.

I did, too.
I couldn't handle the first sip. One of us had to be able to carry the other one back to the hotel.
We will be back in October.

Title: Re: Distilled Corn
Post by: GEMSTATE on October 04, 2012, 05:16:15 PM

http://www.amazon.com/The-Foxfire-Book-Dressing-Moonshining/dp/0385073534#_ (http://www.amazon.com/The-Foxfire-Book-Dressing-Moonshining/dp/0385073534#_)

These books used to cover what your after. Don't know bout the later editions tho....

Title: Re: Distilled Corn
Post by: Ranger99 on October 04, 2012, 05:23:00 PM

have two of those.
one here, one at the farm.
first foxfire book i ever had.
they show the classic way to
make shine, but i'm not willing to
spend the money it would take to
buy the copper sheet needed to
make a pot. there's a really nice
one at the buford pusser home and
museum i saw when i went there.

Title: Re: Distilled Corn
Post by: Cornbelt on October 11, 2012, 01:44:39 PM

  There's always electroplated aluminum. And if you can get ahold of an aluminum can from a milker, it will be the right shape, sides sloping towards the top.
  Let us know if you blow your head off.  :'(

Title: Re: Distilled Corn
Post by: Ranger99 on October 11, 2012, 01:49:53 PM

haven't pursued the pot search lately.
been on the back burner (n.p.i.)


occupied w/ archery deer season for now. ;)