the movie Dukes of Hazzard was quite interesting...has anyone ever made moonshine like that? i also once heard that instead of using that boiling thingy, you could just freeze the mush stuff...what are all your thoughts on this...anyone successfully make any?

chris

 

I've heard of freezing it, but from what i've read it is not very effictive. Always boil, thats what i recomend.

Chris

 

the boiler thing is called a stil(l), and the mush stuff is called mash.

No ive never on my own made it, but ive been around it my whole life. Dukes of hazzard sums up peggs oklahoma.

Ive heard of freezing it, but its not very effective, if you do it right it tastes better than boiling it, but in order to do that, you might asweell have the best lab in the world

 

I've drank it. After doing that I had no thoughts of ever making it

 

"I've drank it. After doing that I had no thoughts of ever making it "
Dido! Had my first taste of white lightning in North Carolina --make ya wanna holler hidey-ho!!

 

...Or do flips off an above-ground swimming pool and crack your head on the aluminum rail

 

My dad in 8th grade made a moonshine still for a science project and got an a on it but got caught a week later actually selling moonshine.I usually get a jug or 2 from my inlaws in tennesee but dont tell!appreciate ya!A shot will do ya fine good for warming the bones!

 

I have drank but never made it. Seen it made though. Did anybody see that special on cmt where the interviewed poporn sutton one of the greatest moonshine makers in North Carolina.

 

My Dad told me stories about blowing up stills with dynamite and finding them back in operation at a new location within a week. He said he had seen dead squirrels floating in the mash and told of once chasing a moonshiner with his '37 Ford police car while the shiner had his 9-year old son throwing bottles out the back window trying to puncture his tires. He brought home a bottle from time to time, but warned that it is best to know who is making the stuff.
Dono

 

I never drank that stuff, it just smells like I'd be drunk as a skunk faster than you could say holy crap. there aint NO WAY I'm gonna try brewin that stuff either. it'd make mighty good fuel for my vehicles though.

 

"He said he had seen dead squirrels floating in the mash" my friends step dad is from tenessee and he said his dad and brother usedto make it the dead critter is supposedta help with faster fermentation or somethin like that. aslong as it burns blue its good.

 

i made my own stove top still.it was just a kettle with a coiled copper line that dripped to a catchpan on the floor.when there was a sale on wine i would buy a bunch.then i would boil the wine and the alcohol would make its way down the copper tubing into the catchpan.it separated the wine from the alcohol.it took a lot of wine to make a pint of alcohol.but it was very claer and had a kick.one time some got spilled and it ate through the wax on the asphalt tile floor.

 

When I was a young man during the late fifties and early sixties, my first wife's father and one of her grandfathers made moonshine mostly for personal/family use but occasionly for cash sale. I saw/helped them make it a few times and once transported a load. They made "drinking" whiskey using all the proper techniques with all copper/brass components and no solder joints. Some makers of "selling" whiskey uses all the shortcuts such as battery acid in the mash barrel to quickly get the husks off the corn kernels, some chicken poop to help in fermentation, and some kerosene in the finished product to help it "foam" more when shaken if the alcohol quantity wasn't great enough. Old vehicle radiators were often used as the condenser for the stills which leached both arsenic and lead into "shine" from the solder thus causing some consumers to suffer poisoning, blindness and even death. I once helped my father-in-law (a blacksmith) build a propane fired mobile still in the rear box of an old (circa 1948)surplus Bell Telephone installer's truck. It had 6 Volt pumps and thermostatically controlled water heater burners. The owner could conveniently locate his mash near a creek and when it was ready, drive his still to the location, pump the cold creek water directly to his propane fired mobile still (as well as the liquid from the mash barrel) and be done in a matter of a few hours. Greatly reduced the vulnerability of getting nabbed by revenuers.

 

Yep. Almost got kicked out of college for it until one of my criminal justice teachers convinced them it was a class project.

 

I don't care for it myself, but have been "forced" to drink some on occasion. If not made properly it can be lethal, but it's been years since I've heard of anyone getting sick off bad moonshine much less dying. I'm lucky in that my brother-in-law brews beer, he calls it "the Backyard Brewery". He makes a lot of different styles and I hate to admit it but it's pretty darn good! My aunt and uncle that live out in the woods bottle homemade wine - it's not very tasty, but after drinking it for a little while you no longer care...