Making alcohol at home.

[Rolluplostinspace]

I'm ready for about three hundred pints of bitter at a time .... but it's slow making beer.
I'm ready for around ten gallons of fifteen% wine every six weeks.
Spirits ... well I'm looking into it.
Any hints are most welcome because the times they are a changing.

[Stooo]

Pressure cooker and some copper pipe...

[Rolluplostinspace]

Pressure cooker and some copper pipe...

Element no flames.

[Rolluplostinspace]

Making a twenty five % sugar wash these days ready for the still is a doddle .... water sugar and turbo yeast and what two weeks?

[Snookerballs]

I never find Home Made Wines and Beers Very Palatable considering the effort of making them .

[Major]

Be very careful Rolly.

SB will have the Volstead Act Inspectors and the ghost of Eliot Ness kicking your shed door down, smashing your still and dragging you off to Alcatraz or even Brixton jail.
He will also inform you that you need to obtain at least 50 different application forms just on the size of barrels you will use.

and

Many many years ago the Irish lads who worked for my old man made a still in the yard and if my memory serves me right they use potatoes and corn or summut like

[art0hur0moh]

I'm ready for about three hundred pints of bitter at a time .... but it's slow making beer.
I'm ready for around ten gallons of fifteen% wine every six weeks.
Spirits ... well I'm looking into it.
Any hints are most welcome because the times they are a changing.

when it comes to spirits you might want to check what the law says about it?

[art0hur0moh]

Be very careful Rolly.

SB will have the Volstead Act Inspectors and the ghost of Eliot Ness kicking your shed door down, smashing your still and dragging you off to Alcatraz or even Brixton jail.
He will also inform you that you need to obtain at least 50 different application forms just on the size of barrels you will use.

and

Many many years ago the Irish lads who worked for my old man made a still in the yard and if my memory serves me right they use potatoes and corn or summut like

probably vodka since potatoes where cheaper than maize?

[drum]

I'm ready for about three hundred pints of bitter at a time .... but it's slow making beer.
I'm ready for around ten gallons of fifteen% wine every six weeks.
Spirits ... well I'm looking into it.
Any hints are most welcome because the times they are a changing.

when it comes to spirits you might want to check what the law says about it?

It's only a problem with the law if they catch you

[art0hur0moh]

I'm ready for about three hundred pints of bitter at a time .... but it's slow making beer.
I'm ready for around ten gallons of fifteen% wine every six weeks.
Spirits ... well I'm looking into it.
Any hints are most welcome because the times they are a changing.

when it comes to spirits you might want to check what the law says about it?

It's only a problem with the law if they catch you

the reason i don't vote, no obligatory taxis!

[Rolluplostinspace]

I'm ready for about three hundred pints of bitter at a time .... but it's slow making beer.
I'm ready for around ten gallons of fifteen% wine every six weeks.
Spirits ... well I'm looking into it.
Any hints are most welcome because the times they are a changing.

when it comes to spirits you might want to check what the law says about it?

It's only a problem with the law if they catch you

the reason i don't vote, no obligatory taxis!

You disabled?

[Gabby]

I'm ready for about three hundred pints of bitter at a time .... but it's slow making beer.
I'm ready for around ten gallons of fifteen% wine every six weeks.
Spirits ... well I'm looking into it.
Any hints are most welcome because the times they are a changing.

when it comes to spirits you might want to check what the law says about it?

It's only a problem with the law if they catch you

the reason i don't vote, no obligatory taxis!

You disabled?

[Major]

Around here and other parts of our island where I have shot people make sloe gin, never tasted a bad one yet.

[ArchieG]

Around here and other parts of our island where I have shot people make sloe gin, never tasted a bad one yet.

I make sloe gin, but it's made with cheap supermarket gin, rather than it being home distilled. Save that for vodka, though of course gin is just infused vodka. Gin flavour, as long as you don't mind yellow gin, just chuck some spices and junipers in some vodka for a few days. If you want it clear, you have to infuse it during distillation, which is a bit more of a hassle, whereas vodka is easy to make. Adding flavours to your vodka is the in thing now, look at the array you can get in supermarkets even, let alone dedicated booze shops. Vodka and rum are about to go through the gentrification that's happened with gin. I was offered a share of a new gin distillery about 5 years ago. Best investment I never made.....bugger!

[Rolluplostinspace]

Whisky whiskey is just vodka really when it first comes out of the still as it comes out crystal clear like water .... or vodka.
There's a variation from which point of the still it is taken off at the difference being when making vodka you're after purity but with whiskey you're after flavour.
Part of the flavour is oils phenols and other shit I can't remember the names of just now.
Most modern whiskey has added caramel colour and is chill filtered which gets rid of some of the best natural flavours unfortunately.
When you add a teaspoon of water to a dram it should go slightly cloudy (Scotch mist) but chill filtered doesn't do that.
The way to put someone off liking whisky is to start them off on Bells or The Famous Grouse or Jack Daniels ... very young fire water whiskey that would probably be better used fueling those little engines on model planes.
Whiskey gets its colour from ageing in oak barrels.
To be sold as whiskey it has to be aged a minimum of three years and bottled at a minimum of 40%.