How to make your own moonshine at home

Make your own moonshine and you can be sure of enjoying your own alcohol with a distinctive flavor. However it is not that easy to produce your own moonshine. In fact it is an art that takes a lot of your time and one has to practice before coming up with an excellent batch of moonshine that can sell. Right through history, people have used various methods of making moonshine at home. Special ingredients and methods have been used in order to get a particular taste.

Many bootleggers and moonshiners have used code words when they talk about making moonshine at home. This is obviously because they wanted to be secretive about it and avoid the law. This is because a bootlegger was someone who sold illegal whiskey and the person who made the liquor illegally was the moonshiner. Moonshine is also known as corn liquor, sugar whiskey, tiger’s sweat, white lightening, popskull, alley bourbon, skull cracker, panther’s breath, city gin, happy sally, blue john, ruckus juice, mule kick etc.

Make your own moonshine by using the basic ingredients that are sugar, corn meal, water, yeast and malt. These ingredients should be mixed in a big container. This mixture is called “mash”. Move the mash into a still for fermentation. The warmth of this mixture will determine the time of fermentation. Heat it till it is at 173 degrees. A clear dark liquid will be produced. Attention should be given to the process at this point.

Using a coil or tube, trap the vapor which should be transferred into another container. The condensation of this vapor is moonshine which is ready to be sold or drunk. The remaining mash or “slop” in the container can be used again to produce more moonshine after adding water, sugar, malt and corn meal to it. This process can be repeated 8 times before changing the mash.

Make your own moonshine by using a DIY approach. It is extremely important to first check the national, federal, state and local statutes so that you will not be breaking any law by building your own moonshine still in order to make your drink. Most of the states in the country prohibit the making of alcohol that exceed specific proofs therefore stay within the laws and you won’t get into any trouble.

Make your own moonshine still by using the following: An old steamer with a lid or a crock pot; copper tube that is about five feet long, some carpentry tools, big milk bottle (plastic) with lid, storage container, some waterproof sealant, coffee filters, charcoal and a good moonshine recipe.

Drill the crock pot lid and feed an end of the copper tube into it. Fasten the lid to the large milk bottle and make a large hole into which you can feed ice through into the container. Make a hole in the bottle lid and feed the tube into it and out from the side around 2 inches away from the bottom. Make sure that the end of the tube goes into the storage container in which you want to store the homemade liquor you brew. Fill in the gaps where the tube goes into the lids with waterproof sealant. Fill the pot with the ingredients and around two thirds of the bottle with ice. Cook the mixture at a temperature of around 175 to 200 F.

Make your own moonshine by monitoring the distilling process carefully and adding ice cubes to the bottle throughout the process so that there is no melting of the plastic. Sample your own moonshine every now and then.