Making moonshine at home

excellent devices with rectifier are sold. columns for small volumes

I read it all. make up my mind! This time for her God I will make up my mind! (c) Heart of a Dog

I read everything

You saw mine here? She's small! And bought, by the way, next to you, at the Testers, in Miller! Then the village of Guber had an office there, check it out - perhaps they still work there.

I looked at your car. There is a column. She's big huh?
I somehow imagined it myself (at the level of "Mister Perfumer") Pot-bellied glass cones. Gas under them / spirit lamp.
How's the BurkendBad TV series?
Without electricity, whatever. Gas water and conjure ... like an Alchemist! Well, that's mezetezzo.

And there is little to put the leaven of the mash. Liters maximum 12.
And then with buckets / pots of telepazzo I have no sense.

I have the same grief with HP.
I'll bake a loaf and eat it for two weeks :-( Well, in one person then? :-(

Therefore, we need small volumes.

Although, you may be right. Again. As always :-)
You are always right.
You have to go to Miller.
But I’m a miller.
There they regularly cut someone! :-)
I fucking go there - there are hooligans right? ahahaha

What an interesting Temka my spouse recently recalled how they used to use "own" home brew and everyone was alive and well, and now you will gather with friends on a long winter evening, with a bottle of vodka under herring, and in the morning your head is splitting: crazy: probably it is necessary as before if consumed, then natural product. If I still decide to give my husband such a gift in the form of a moonshine still, which one should I choose? And does anyone know what alambiki is, can you buy a beautiful piece of stuff and drive moonshine in it?

dopleta

Cool video!
Small car and fits the bill.
I will probably buy it.
And it is modern. The sensors are there LCD.

I was not impressed. There are plenty of questions.
In particular
1. There are only two "plates". And, judging by the design, only they are used to separate fractions and strengthen the product.
2. Why a reflux condenser at all, if there is no return of reflux to the tank in a counter flow? In fact, it turns out that it does not work for purification, but only for distillation.

In short, some kind of very intermediate contraption. Type AK in caliber 5.45

I knew that we also have such a topic! After my personal supplier of distillery spirits untimely left, I have been searching for a year, finishing up the hidden leftovers. I will study the question.

Peace be with you bakers

And I, with all the variety of alcohol in the markets, and the trouble-free buy alcohol - 500 rubles a five-liter canister. From time to time I do moonshine, as if not to save for the sake of but creativity for

[dopleta]

I want to ask the owners ... I don't know what to call it. Well, here's a rectification column like dopleta... Does it really produce alcohol in terms of cleaning quality? You probably can't check without laboratory equipment. But, at least, in terms of organoleptic indicators, color, smell ... And is there really a rectification column in the same place? That is, double distillation is not required, and immediately from the mash we get the aqua vita we need? I just looked at the prices. As you do not want to be mistaken in the choice. For when I gave my husband a hint about double distillation, he told me everything ... that I told my son when he started making absinthe.

Oh, and I remember how my mother drove moonshine with the help of improvised means, elementary .... I can, if necessary, repeat it now !!! The degree was such that when my mother set fire to moonshine on the table to check its strength, it burned ... mother do not cry

[Bridge]

Bridge, Natasha, it turns out, indeed, a real alcohol, but double distillation is necessary. And it does not depend on the equipment, it is required by the chemical process.

Understood. So, you can take it at a cheaper price.

No-no-no, I went out of here ... No-no-no ... otherwise all this is contagious

[Bridge]

Bridge Come here 🔗 ... Look there in the subject Alcohol preparation general education sections Theory and Practice... If you are more or less not afraid of technology, then you will understand everything.
And there is also a forum ... even 10 times the HP. By volume. And it is quite comparable with HP in the given nuances and details. Only he is as masculine as female on HP.
I spent two years there at the end of the last decade, when I was making a column for myself. Out of love for art and new directions for themselves. And in addition to it, a separate conventional distiller - not purifying with. apparatus, it is included in the general technology.
Now everything is ready, tested, checked, preserved and waiting in the wings. Who knows - what if you have to live from this someday?

[Konstantin]

Only he is as masculine

Eh, Konstantin, here's the thing that male ... I mean, I'm not afraid of technology and very much even love it ... But still I am more of a humanist.

Oh, and I remember how my mother drove moonshine with the help of improvised means, elementary .... I can, if necessary, repeat it now !!! The degree was such that when my mother set fire to the moonshine on the table to check its strength, it burned ... mother do not cry

Mantyshnitsa and a cup of water on top, change the water more often, it's elementary. Chemerges was burning with a blue flame, my teetotal dad was amused by this solely for the sake of the process, my mother loved the "burn-not-burn" moment. Cool memories of my teenage years

[Olesya]

Olesya, And to alcohol still all the other factions are there. And light low-temperature aldehydes, acetone, methanol and heavy - high alcohols, they are fusel oils.
This technology is popularly called "through the basin "... We in the army with a partner, the same two-year-old, tried it.
(Here this episode is described in all its glory 🔗 I just put a special tag for the link directly on it in the general narration. )
The product turns out to be so-so. With our then lieutenant's salary, it was better to run to the other end of the village (N57.677730, E39.583294) to the store.

And my neighbor, Uncle Kolya, a front-line soldier, two "Glories", the kingdom of heaven to him, during the Gorbachev Decree drove "via package".
A bucket with home brew was put in a plastic bag, a kilowatt boiler was pushed into the bucket, the cord and the neck of the bag were wrapped with electrical tape. The braga was boiling, the bag fogged up and the moonshine then flowed down the walls behind the bucket. Only it was necessary to watch: stick in and pull out, so that the bag did not burst from the strong boil. Then the bucket with the leftovers was removed, and from the bag the product was poured into a saucepan.
He treated me. A terrible thing, then I barely managed to drive and put a hundred grams of myself inside. Strongly torn out. Out of respect only. I didn’t want to anymore, but Uncle Kolya couldn’t.

I will not argue, I will not say anything about the chemical composition, but I remember exactly, everyone was alive and well, they did something there, cleaned it with coal, potassium permanganate, then insisted on nuts, something else .., but I, as a matter of fact, just remembered it as a moment in life, not a recommendation at all

From personal experience. Moonshine and dad sometimes drove, and my husband got it - a craftsman. At the first distillation, there will be no alcoholic strength. My men usually did two distillations. Here it was going to 80 gr. In this case, subsequent cleaning is very important, to remove fusel oils. They cleaned it with milk, potassium permanganate, and for the finale, my husband thought of driving it through a carbon filter - like a Barrier.
Dad was not so overstrained: a village guy, a front-line soldier, he did not understand these nonsense. I thought that double distillation was enough. Well, I could have insisted on lemon or orange peels
And the husband, having cleansed the product, poured pine nuts with it, diluted it with water to a strength of 45 grams. and added some granulated sugar. And left to brew.It didn't work for a long time, but after a few days the product came out with a marvelous consumer quality: tasty and without headaches in the morning. 700-800 gr. diluted 100 gr. nuts.
I'm for moonshine. Though you understand what you are drinking. The starting product is yeast and sugar, not sawdust. As for cleaning a factory one, it is important for a "stool", but from a good product there is enough homemade one.

Peace be with you bakers!

And I decided to update my device \ I probably used it for 20 years \
And I bought myself a present for the new year today
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how much litrof

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Finland
for 12 liters

How much is?

Previously, moonshine was made with double distillation, it is cleaner and less smell. When the moonshine has been driven out, pour out the water bottle, rinse the container and fill in the moonshine. We add that amount of water as moonshine and drive. From 10 liters of moonshine we got 8 liters of purest moonshine. They took it until it stops burning from the tap. The fortress is 60 degrees, then whoever wants to can dilute it with what anyone wants.

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Deva-
It costs 11 thousand Kirovsky, which is also called Finland, costs 9 thousand \ well, or so \
In my 4 mm bottom and 2 walls, and in the Kirovsky bottom \ by sound \ thinner and the walls are 1.5 - measured

alex52860-
And I do twice
The first time I drive away and fall asleep with soda, filter for a day and fall asleep with potassium permanganate
precipitation ambassador \ days 5 probably \ filter dilute degrees to 40 and overtake with the selection of heads and tails

from three liters of home brew after the second run, on average, I get 700 ml of a 75-80 degree drink

From personal experience. Moonshine and dad sometimes drove, and my husband got it - a craftsman. At the first distillation, there will be no alcoholic strength. My men usually did two distillations. Here it was going to 80 gr. In this case, subsequent cleaning is very important, to remove fusel oils. They cleaned it with milk, potassium permanganate, and for the finale, my husband thought of driving it through a carbon filter - like a Barrier.
Dad was not so overstrained: a village guy, a front-line soldier, he did not understand these nonsense. I thought that double distillation was enough. Well, I could have insisted on lemon or orange peels
And the husband, having cleansed the product, poured pine nuts with it, diluted it with water to a strength of 45 grams. and added some granulated sugar. And left to brew. It didn't work for a long time, but after a few days the product came out with a marvelous consumer quality: tasty and without headaches in the morning. 700-800 gr. diluted 100 gr. nuts.
I'm for moonshine. Though you understand what you are drinking. The starting product is yeast and sugar, not sawdust. As for cleaning a factory one, it is important for a "stool", but from a good product, there is enough homemade.

we drive 1 time, strength 68-70, then we clean twice, with manganese, then bau, there is no smell at all. it all depends on the mash and yeast. oh yes, well, and from the apparatus, of course - a dry steam room and a normal refrigerator are a must. there is a line of friends for moonshine, no one drinks other drinks after it. even picky ladies only swallow cherries infused with moonshine - this is the song

Peace be with you bakers!
And who ever used such a thing as flavoring additives

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You can of course make the tincture yourself - but time is running out

not that I can't wait, it's just that I have Sonoselicaphobia

[a]

I just have Sonoselicaphobia

Mozh, milka?

Anatoly, where did you buy it, the moonshine still?

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Deva-
In the grid of offers - you can kill the current, dial - buy a moonshine still: wow: and they will bring \ many for nothing \ and gifts / discounts are provided

But I wanted to rate it before buying it myself.

I dug up several stores in Moscow with self-export ordered \ money upon receipt \ and went and looked.

In appearance, they are all good, and according to the description - iron is almost like the armor of a tank

I arrived at one of the stores, took out the device to me, I clicked on it \ like a watermelon \
and immediately realized that in thickness it is like a canning can and there is no millimeter A declared 2 mm

In another store, it seems like iron is not bad BUT it is welded so clumsily that I don't want to take it in my hands, and some kind of dumb seams

Something like this

Of course, you can do courier delivery, the money is still after receiving the goods - you don't like it, you can refuse
But it will take a long time, and so I climbed a couple of days on sites and spent a day shopping.

I'm certainly not sure that I bought my own Finnish device, but of all I touched, this one turned out to be the thickest and licked

Hello everyone! Can anyone share the recipe for cognac? I want a proven one, and not just from the Internet

Hello everyone! Can anyone share the recipe for cognac? I want a proven one, and not just from the Internet

If I find it at home, with my mother, then in a couple of weeks I will write a recipe (I will not have the Internet in my homeland). About 30 years old he is exactly this recipe. Uncle did it for himself .. Scientists, they are like that .. Experimenters. .

[Lenchik]

we drive 1 time, strength 68-70, then we clean twice, with manganese, then bau, there is no smell at all.

Lenchik, and sho is BAU? (spring exacerbation in forum moonshiners began)

[BAU-A]

Choosing coal for cleaning moonshine

Today, no matter what they tell you there, activated carbon, which is sold in pharmacies, is made of wood, therefore, in principle, it will suit us. But, as a rule, there are foreign impurities in it, for example, talc and starch, which will eventually spoil the taste of our drink - it will become bitter. Therefore, to clean the moonshine, it is better to acquire coal of a different origin, namely:

from filters for water purification;
from gas masks;
from protective gas analyzer tubes;
from aquarium filters;
special coal for winemakers (BAU-A, OU-A, DAK, etc.)
But with some of these positions, you should be very careful, as they may contain impurities. So, most filters for water purification use ion-exchange resins that soften the water. In principle, there is nothing wrong with this, but experienced moonshiners do not recommend using such filters. It is still more difficult with gas masks, especially if they were in use - very harmful chemical components could be trapped inside the filter, in addition, gas masks often use accompanying elements that we do not need at all.

It is best to use special charcoal BAU-A (according to GOST 6217-74),

which is made from birch wood. It is enriched in pores by pyrolysis (combustion at high temperatures without oxygen supply) and these pores have the dimensions necessary for our purposes. It is not at all difficult to buy it, 1 kg costs about 50 UAH or 150-200 rubles, depending on the supplier. Some folk craftsmen recommend making charcoal on their own, that is, burning firewood from birch, beech and other types of wood. It is difficult to say how effective this is, since the product burns with oxygen. Better to spend money once and buy BAU-A.

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gawala, Galya! I will wait! I don't consume it myself, absolutely! But my husband is a craftsman, he assembled the device and it seems he did it! mmm ..... So I got the idea

Peace be with you bakers!

Coal acts in the column and so - transfer of wood
Activated from the pharmacy, which is not at all
Soda and freshly baked nigella to help you, or whoever has the opportunity - freezing

Well, even fish glue \ well, the one that is sturgeon \ - but this, as they say, can not afford

Cognac - prunes \ high quality \ - oak chips \ you can also oak bark from a pharmacy \ well, and a couple of drops of vanilla extract \ this is for everybody \

[Friends]

I couldn't think of anything better how to ask in this thread ...

Friends, advise a good / minimally lying alcohol meter, please ...

I'd like to know the strength of homemade liqueurs and liqueurs !!!

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Krosh--

Duc is the most common - 100 rubles in a shop

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You just need to understand that this is a SPIRTOMETER

Wine and beer or some other dense drink he won't measure

And even about a couple of degrees lies if you measure the tincture from moonshine or vodka

[Anatoly]

Anatoly, I am very grateful to you for your responsiveness !!!

the most common - 100 rubles in the store

I bought this:



Price - 35 rubles.

Supplier LLC "Corvette", Voronezh.

Peace be with you bakers!
I was surprised
Cheaper than 85 rubles never met

[Inna]

Inna, keep in mind that alcohol meters are very demanding on the temperature of the alcohol-water solution at which the measurement is made. Usually, this should be done at 20 * C or 25 * C, it should be indicated in the instructions. The stronger the solution, the more noticeable the effect of temperature: when heated, the alcohol solution increases in volume, therefore, its density decreases, the alcohol meter will overestimate the strength and may even drown in a hot strong solution of alcohol.

I’m surprised all the time with my findings) I often roam the Internet in search of something like that and then I found a site for moonshine recipes) Honestly, I don’t dabble in it myself) and it’s not acceptable in our family like that. But then I read it, put my mind to it ... it’s several times cheaper than paying for finished products on the Internet. Particularly interested in the recipes for elite) I would never have thought that you can make cognac, whiskey, calvados, polugar, rum, bourbon from ordinary moonshine. Well done guys, site creators, give good advice and advise ingredients. In general, I seriously thought) but for now I think I have already thrown off the link to the godfather
What do you think about this, share your secrets, who prepares the elite at home?

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For the money

I have a classic scheme 3 liters of water - 1 kilo of sugar \ on average 50 rubles \ - 100 grams of yeast -12 rubles

Well, let it be 65 rubles, my stove is gas and I adjusted the water so that the meter does not turn

I immediately bodyweight - 5 kilos of sugar and 5 packs of yeast - well, let it be 330 rubles

I drive out 6 liters of raw alcohol, clean \ potassium permanganate plus soda \ and after the second run I get more than 3 liters of moonshine with a strength of 65-70 degrees

Well, think about half a liter, even 70 degrees how much it costs
Of course, after insisting, the degrees of the fry go away, but still

Now there are many bottles with all sorts of additives - you want whiskey, but you want tequila

But here I have found a taste for myself and rarely experiment

Oak chips \ or bark \ linden blossom and brown sugar

Almost no one who tried it knew that it was moonshine

py sy

The device certainly costs money - but it will be justified quickly

What is invented! I don't know about you, but I will buy tyts!

Good time of day to all!
Since childhood, I remember how my mother drove moonshine - in the village without him, no matter how. My brother, my stainless steel welder, smiled the machine that we still use. Not often, but now it's time to make liqueurs and liqueurs. My husband and I made calvados, bourbon, cognac, and whiskey. Calvados with apples, bourbon with corn, cognac with grapes, whiskey with grains. And all this is taught in oak barrels. But we do not have barrels, and a long time ago in the internet I read a faster way. We chop a small branch of an oak. We clean it from the bark and use a knife to cut thin shavings. We boil these shavings in a soda solution for 1 liter of water 1-2 tsp. soda. We rinse with clean cold water. Drain through a colander, dry on a towel. Then comes the drying stage in the oven. Dry at low temperature with a slightly open oven. The chips acquire a characteristic brown color. We put it in cans, fill it with moonshine, roll it up - after 2-3 months, a divine drink is obtained. We have Isabella grapes - moonshine smells of isabella and it turns out a very tasty cognac. I personally didn't like bourbon - the smell of corn just drove me crazy. But I respect Calvados very much. And now it is made of isabella braga. By the way, the quality of the moonshine (namely the sour smell) is impaired by the unmeasured amount of baker's yeast. We make home brew at wine shops.
The first 100-150gr (this is also called tails) go to all sorts of rubbers - there are a lot of kaki-byaki in them. Then comes the body of moonshine and takes it while it burns. As soon as it becomes below 40-38 degrees, you can drive it out, but this is already going to be re-distilled in separate banks. Which are collected, assembled and distilled again using the above technology. They used to clean it through a coal filter from the Spring (there used to be such filters for water), now through the Barrier. I read a lot of bad things about potassium permanganate - when interacting with moonshine, some of the alcohols somehow pass into aldehydes, which is not good. In general, something like that .... And so the Internet is full of information, just read, don't be lazy. And the result is all its own, natural. And of course, the savings on purchased alcoholic beverages are tangible.

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Tatyana--

Well, for me, two stages - getting raw alcohol - all in a heap

Well, the actual preparation of the drink itself - the second distillation

You can overtake the third time, but it's useless - the fortress is higher and the fuselage will remain

Cleaning-

Well, first we dilute, by how many the fewer degrees the more thoroughly the cleaning

Filter - this is to pass 2-3 times then to the discharge -UNIVERSAL- there is a drain of sivukha in it - mom do not cry for sure

The factory coal column is arranged differently - there the product is fed to the top under pressure

If you use activated carbon - about 50 grams per liter, then after 5 times it must be calcined

The dispute about manganese has been going on for a long time, neither how the people will be determined

And soda removes acid
Well, of course, there are cleaning methods with egg, milk or freezing

Yeast

Well, maybe bakery is not the best choice, it suits me

And if you do it on others, then not on wine but on SPIRITS they seem to be sharpened for this business \ mainly Belarusian ones are sold \ from them the exhaust is more

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Head are taken at the rate of 50 ml per 1 kg of sugar and it is better not to use them for any rubbing - in the sink

Anatoly! It is irrational to pour such good things as heads into the sink!
I carefully collect and use for cleaning kitchen hoods, stoves, kitchen cabinets. What kind of mister muscle and other nonsense is there? And once again, there is no need to spend on detergents and there is less chemical stench in the house (personally, the smell of alcohol does not irritate me, unlike fragrances). It is also good to wipe the shoes inside it from any odors. In a bio fireplace, it burns well as a fuel, artistically ... also without unnecessary aromas, of course. But you never know where else you can apply!

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Malka did not put it exactly well, of course, for something to wipe it will do

It's just that people are trying to make some kind of lotions on their heads and something like that - my neighbor insisted on bird cherry - he wiped their feet from stars and on cucumbers instead of aftershave