it is a PIA.......a lot of screwing around for a few quarts of what is basically grain alcohol.

Cheaper to buy it........dangerous stuff too.

Yea I imagine. Homebrewing was kinda a pain too.

No wonder people turn to meth

the problem with the reflux still design is that it makes extremely pure alcohol (12X through a typical still equivalent) in one pass.

what you end up with is very very strong (ask Stogeeboy), but very clean and astringent liquor.

I suppose you could cut it with water, put it in an oak barrel, age it for ten years and hope for the best.

OR.....you could go buy a fifth of something good.

I have made it out of beer, sugar water, and corn/sugar.

It turned out very similar each time; and even as much of a lush as I am, I do not enjoy drinking it.

I'd adjust the "flux capacitor".

Andy,

This was the real reason for my post. I have heard the same thing (and tasted) what you are talking about. But, I once tasted a great batch of moonshine with some friends from cbid and that is my whole reason for this post. It tasted like sugar water!! I was in West Virginia doing some research and they were talking about cutting it with cherries,

I NEED THAT DAMN RECIPE!!!

if it tasted like cherries, or sugar, it probably was cut and flavored.

When I perfect my recipe, will you be the official taster? Like the quality stage of my product?

sure!

cool.

Andy's stuff is the shiite!!!!! almost made me blind dude. but worth it.

RELAX Smashie, you will succeed, in the end.

Oh, LARS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

ROFL

Andy, looks like we gotta talk.

andyt at msicorporation dot com

OH NO ! ! Smashie & Andy out in the woods , with a Still !!!!!!!!!! ROFL

DELIVERANCE !!!!!!!!!!!! LMFAO ~

All they need now are a couple of banjos and a canoe.

Is there another way to cut it to be less strong than using water? Is it flavored before it goes through the "still" process?

It would be interesting to try something that isn't as strong and tastes better than the one I tried once in college. It was pretty nasty.

Smashed, keep us updated on this, I'm interested to know how it turns out.

PAS

Suzi

I go to the tennessee hills for work sometimes, and they have some there they call apple pie! Man that be sum good drinkin! Not sweet like you would think, but real good.