/MSG/ Moonshine general

[Anonymous No.10583165]

There’s got to be a couple of thousand people on /ck/, surely I’m not the only one who just pitched a super aggressive and tolerant yeast to make almost 2 gallons of 93%.

[Anonymous No.10583176]

>>10583165
>Self inflicted blindness general
I'll bump to watch some anons give themselves methanol poisoning

[alky aider No.10583217]

>>10583176
I intend to document the whole process in real time. Every time I take a photo you get it right away. If methanol blinds me, so be it. It was always going to be that, or masturbation. Neither would make me feel that I'd had anything other than a rich and fulfilling life.

Just for the record, I'm Australian, so there might be some low-key banter.

[Anonymous No.10583245]

>>10583217
Don't you need a distiller's permit to make spirits on kangaroo island?

[Anonymous No.10583280]

>>10583245
I wouldn't know, I'm making biofuel. I'm also a fine painter who works in acrylics, so I need a lot of ethanol to dilute my paint. And I regularly dye leather goods, so previous dyes need to be stripped out. I also extract essential oils on occasion.

[Anonymous No.10583338]

>>10583280
Cheeky m80. What's your still look like?

[Anonymous No.10583457]

>>10583338
Turbo 500 stainless steel. You've seen one photo you've seen them all.

[Anonymous No.10583954]

>>10583165
If I remember correctly there used to be some dude who live in like Maine or something who would make these threads awhile back. His house was in total shambles and his pets looked like they were about to die but I did enjoy the threads.

[Anonymous No.10584199]

>>10583954
kek I remember that guy.

His dog looked like someone hit it in the head with a bat and he was growing weed in his filthy trailer too. I think he delivered newspapers for a living

[Anonymous No.10584241]

>>10584199
I’m glad I left that state..

[Anonymous No.10584285]

What do you guys mix your moonshine with?
I prefer coffee.

[Anonymous No.10584293]

>>10583165

based chemistry general, monitoring this thread

[Anonymous No.10584368]

>>10583457
You might want to look into building a real reflux still if you want top quality. I use a 65 liter VM that works great (7€ water boiler element is plenty for keeping the boil going!) but I got bored of distilling before I could get around to building a heads trap and automatic reflux control. These days I mostly brew beer and cider. It's a bit of a dream of mine to buy a Grainfather and try to import the alembic still head and make some groovy single malt. Or I could just make a pot still head for the still I already have, hehe.

[Anonymous No.10584397]

>>10583217
If masturbation made people blind I'd be a fucking mole by now

[Anonymous No.10584411]

>>10583954
Im still here. My house is a little bit better. My dog still looks like she has a tumor growing out of her eye. And Im not brewing anything untilI finish my spring gardening projects.

[Faggot OP No.10585492]

>>10584368
I just laid $600 on the table for my turbo 500, so I’m not likely to want to build another right away, but thanks. My system can also use an alembic for pot stilling, I might get one of those in a while.

And yes, the grainfather is a long term goal of mine too.

[Anonymous No.10585500]

>>10583165
Bamp, thanks OP for making an interesting thread. I will watch intently. Anyone making Dandelion wine here considering it's the season?

[Anonymous No.10585509]

>>10583165
>couple of thousand people on /ck/
it's actually me and 4 other guys

[Anonymous No.10585526]

I make 270 liters of wash every 2 months. It costs about 120 dollars and makes around 30 liters of 93% booze.

[Anonymous No.10585542]

>>10583165
>>10585526
can you describe what goes into this process?

[Anonymous No.10585587]

>>10585542

In a fucking 12 hour seminar if I was required.

Start at https://homedistiller.org/forum/

regardless my still is essentially a giant coffee pot. It runs for 3 hours and gives me 3 handles of 65, 55 and 40 percent booze.

That's a 3 inch column, a Jackson Crossflow Condenser with a hand made Liebig cooler that all flows into a bottle in my bloody sink. The coolant is circulated by a Home Depot pond filter and it works reliably probably 200 times now.

[Anonymous No.10585591]

>>10585587

truth be told, everything was hand made.

[Anonymous No.10585612]

>>10583165

This is how you actually make booze. 300 liters of sugar wash based on this recipe.

It starts immediately and finishes in 5 days to a .099 SG.

http://shuggo.com/birdwatchers/calculator.htm

[Faggot OP No.10585768]

Next morning, got a good vigorous ferment happening. Running about 26 degrees Celsius.

[Faggot OP No.10585839]

>>10585612
You do you and I’ll be me, friendo.
>300 litres of wash
Damn son, it’s a hobby for me, not a lifestyle.

[Anonymous No.10585886]

>>10583176
retard alert, explain to the class how distilling white whiskey will result in more methanol than your average beer or wine

[Anonymous No.10585894]

>>10583165
well it's illegal to make alcohol in all of the US without a very expensive license so...

[Faggot OP No.10585909]

>>10585886
Chill bro, I’m sure he was just joking. And I was grateful for the bump.

[Anonymous No.10585955]

>>10583280
>d-dont hit on me silly government!!
>not just telling the queen to fuck off
youre not australian you're a clear as mud yankee

[Anonymous No.10585978]

i wonder, is brewing The Shine more cost effective than buying beer? i think they have yeast at my local corean grocer but idk if its the right kind

>>10585894
thats actually factually incorrect unless you're in a flyover dry county

[Faggot OP No.10586011]

>>10585955
>clear as mud yankee
Where do Americans shop for a block of Boag’s Draught, you fuckwit?

[Anonymous No.10586016]

>inb4 monosodium glutamate chinese restaurant syndrome discussion with long anecdotal rants and dated research

[Anonymous No.10586036]

>>10585978

Dude, I make booze for 1.75 per liter of azeotropic booze.

Look it up.

[Anonymous No.10586041]

>>10586011

You're doing shit I did 7 years ago. Keep at it.

[Anonymous No.10586044]

>>10586011
Amazon.com, same place they get their Pickle Rick IPA

[Anonymous No.10586051]

>>10586036
>Look it up.
where, like 90% of google results are fudd forums that get side tracked as of the second post and places like Instructables are all retards who stack toilet paper rolls and pringles cans and then say it should work

[Anonymous No.10586064]

I built a cheap pot still (maybe cost me ~$50) awhile back, as long as you do it low n slow you can get 99% ethanol results. I'd usually do a stripping run and then another run based on what kind of liquor I was making. Did some killer gin.

In the UK it worked out to under 1 GBP per liter (at a diluted 40% ABV). In the USA it's about the same. I did a writeup but I'm not sure if this is the place to post it and a lot of people would probably call my setup trash since it's not a proper column or anything.

[Anonymous No.10586074]

>>10586064
punk's not dead. give me the deets or at least an archive link, my man. I understand the concept of distillation but not how to separate the Literal Poison from the booze

how's winemaking compare to actual distillation? is it still cost-effective?

[Faggot OP No.10586077]

>>10585978
I ran the sums, if you approach it as a long-term project it’s worth the investment.
Here in Australia, alcohol is so heavily taxed that it’s significantly cheaper to home brew and distill. Even the economies of scale from industrial brewing and distilling can’t compete with home brewing once tax is taken into account.

A bottle of Russian Standard down here costs about $33 at the absolute cheapest. So home distilling the equivalent for $4 is a breddy bud deal.

[Anonymous No.10586114]

>>10586051

Yeah, you're just a fucking idiot. Read, dipshit. I know you don't know anything about it, but you might if you stop drinking and start reading.

[Anonymous No.10586116]

>>10586077
>A bottle of Russian Standard down here costs about $33 at the absolute cheapest. So home distilling the equivalent for $4 is a breddy bud deal.
it's about the same here in Quebec adjusted for Aus's generally high prices and high wages -- we make a little less but the same bottle would be like 27 bucks I think

I don't really care about quality, I just want to sustainably fuel my drinking habit

is distillation as simple as "make something fermented and then distill it" or is there something I'm missing? It seems too simple a concept and there's a lot of jargon to it

>>10586114
fuck you bitch fuck this im gonna manufacture firearms instead then and tell them to teenagers

[Anonymous No.10586117]

>>10586114

[Anonymous No.10586121]

>>10586116

Why be a child?

[Anonymous No.10586129]

>>10586116

I know you're too stupid to do anything worthwhile. Do you?

[Anonymous No.10586159]

>>10586116

In my head I called you 'puppy cat'. I do that with my own kitty. I shouldn't call you puppy kitty, should I?

[Faggot OP No.10586176]

>>10586116
Yeah, basically you ferment a ‘wash’ (water, yeast and simple carbohydrates) in a bucket. Then you put the wash in a still and it heats it until the alcohol boils off as a vapour, which happens at a lower temperature than water. The alcohol vapour is then condensed and collected.

There are plenty of people who make kits, Still Spirits from NZ have a jewtube channel that explains it all pretty well. Also home distiller dot org.

>>10586121
>>10586129
Can you guys calm down? I’d like this thread to be a bit more laid back.

[Anonymous No.10586211]

>>10586159
>I shouldn't call you puppy kitty, should I?
idk man probably not, shit like that will get me excited in all the wrong ways

[Anonymous No.10586249]

>>10586176
so is it then "not wrong" to think of it as distilling beer or wine or similar into a spirit? because that was really what was getting me, reading about it seemed like it went straight from cornmeal and oats to bourbon in one go and it always struck me as odd that the fermentation step is glossed over

thank you for clarifying this for me, it seems so much simpler now

brb gonna make rice beer out of probiotic pills and calrose rice

[Anonymous No.10586338]

>>10586074
Wine-making is much less cost-effective, alcohol-wise, and it takes MUCH longer.

My cheap distilling guide:
https://a.uguu.se/BjWXiBZgIH14.html

[Anonymous No.10586354]

>>10586249
>so is it then "not wrong" to think of it as distilling beer or wine or similar into a spirit?

Exactly.
Whiskey is basically beer that's been distilled into spirits and then aged.
Brandy is distilled from wine.

[Anonymous No.10586481]

>>10586249
>so is it then "not wrong" to think of it as distilling beer or wine or similar into a spirit?
Precisely. Any (non-toxic) liquid that's undergone a primary fermentation is able to be distilled.
I have an acquaintance who owns a vineyard who has sub-optimal batches of wine and distills them for brandy.

>brb gonna make rice beer out of probiotic pills and calrose rice
Try makolli (korean rice beer). It's actually pretty fucking tasty.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2qXRGih1E8
The yeast it uses comes pre-packaged and can often be found for sale in Korean grocery shops. It's called 'nuruk' (누룩). You can boost its effectiveness by using amylase to simplify the carbohydrates and speed up fermentation (assuming it doesn't have amylase in it already).

[Faggot OP No.10586541]

Here’s the T500 turbo still I’ll be using in about a week.

[Anonymous No.10586547]

>>10586044
can we really buy liquor and beer from amazon?

[Anonymous No.10586550]

>>10583165
how do I get my eyesight back, bros?

[Faggot OP No.10586553]

>>10586044
Just for shits and giggles I looked up Boag's Draught on amazon and they don't stock it. Also, Jeff Bezos personally confirmed you're a ciggy butt brain.

[Anonymous No.10586681]

>>10586481
>>10586354
if i'm not willing to be Maximum Nigger, can I use left-behind Acidophilus probiotic pills for fermentation or will that result in something more like yoghurt drink that's non-alcoholic and tastes faintly of vomit

[Faggot OP No.10586723]

>>10586681
Probiotics may have micro organisms other than yeast and this might fuck up your brew. What you need is saccharomyces (preferably s. cerevisiae). I have no idea whether acidophilus will work, but I seriously doubt it.

However! Acidophilus could be useful if you were looking to ferment a milk wash. Acidophilus first to break the lactose down, then saccharomyces to convert it to alcohol. And for the record, there's a traditional Mongolian booze called 'koumiss' which is fermented mare's milk.

[Anonymous No.10586731]

>>10583165
funny story, so i an orthodox, and the church i used to go to before moving had tons of romanians, and on Pascha the Bishop came, and ALL of them brought moonshine, cherry to be exact. Anyway apparently all the romanians there are moonshiners cause they got the Bishop hammered

[Faggot OP No.10586764]

>>10586731
My idiot half-brother married a psychotic Serbian Orthodox girl, the marriage didn't last but the memories of the sliwowicz (sp?) did. Good shit.

[Anonymous No.10586808]

>>10584411
how old is she?

[Anonymous No.10586924]

>>10586808
Shes five.

[Faggot OP No.10586964]

>>10586808
>>10586924
Take it to /an/.

[Anonymous No.10586973]

>>10585500
Yeah, i was looking at my back yard and giving it some thought. I figured i was the only one in the world