does anyone knows how to do it properly? my stepfather used to make it and kept getting me drunk with it (not always knowing that), it was made from potatoes. any recipes and tools you might need? does it create a smell, will they call a police if i make it in my basement?
Distillation is not that difficult. You can do it very safely using refrigeration, relying on the fact that alcohol freezes at a much lower temperature than water. Freeze distillation also retains much more of the fermentation characteristics of the original drink than fractional distillation. It's just illegal, so don't talk indiscriminately about it. It's difficult to produce anything stronger than 25 or 30% alcohol using freeze distillation, but it's a favorite method because it requires less aging and retains many of the flavor components that are lost in fractional distilling
Distillation can be done fairly easily with a pressure cooker and some copper tubing (running off the cooker and through an ice bath). the product that comes out is raw and needs to be aged a few months or a few years, to develop some complexity. Age it in good wood to add that complexity. You can buy seasoned casks from wineries and distilleries without too much problem.
It's easy-you need sugar-or potatoes or whatever--yeast--water---then let it ferment-distill ---and VOILA!!!!!!!!!!you made hooch
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It's easy-you need sugar-or potatoes or whatever--yeast--water---then let it ferment-distill
do i need two pounds or pieces of yeast? you could explain or translate what a pressure cooker and ice bath is as well the whole distillation process could you explain it to me? thanks in advance
I am not going into details.Here it is illegal to make the stuff and the recepies are usually made by word of mouth.Usually it's the europeans that make the stuff and have brought their recepies from their country of origin.
why do bother answering then? i cold google it too, but was hoping someone friendly will explain it to me, still thanks for your help anyway, i guess that should do
btw is it illegal to be racist for example? so much racism and insult going on here...what i'm asking is advice, not asking you to make it for me
If you blow up the picture on the right,it gives you the ingredients--the amounts and the still and how much it will make.I also said any fruit or vegetable can be used to ferment that's how you can get the variety of alcoholic drinks.The first item you will need is a still.Good luck-----Most people that make this, make their own "still".
Famously, there's "bimber" proportions known as 'Bitwa Grunwaldska', after the Battle of Grunwald in 1410. It's 1L of water, 400gr of sugar and 10gr of yeast, totalling the year of 1410.
Yesterday i tried bimber for the first time, and for my surprise , it tasted like whiskey, i was surprised because i've always been told that bimber is a "homemade vodka" , and the people who served me this bimber told me that it's vodka, so is there a variation of bimber or does it always taste like that ?
Moonshine is generally between 80 - 90% alcohol. When you start getting up to 160 to 180 proof it is possible to fill your cigarette lighter with it. Where I live I think you are allowed to make two gallons in home. Last batch I made was peach flavored and as smooth as a school moms leg. You don't get much of a hangover with it either as it is so pure. With a poor country like Poland I can't believe village people don't make their own vodka......or do they ?
As long as the distillery uses the same recipe, why not? Unless you go by the "official" definiton of moonshine, of course. Then Roger is right: if it's moonshine, then it's automatically illegal.
When last in Poland, I asked someone where could I find "real" bimber. The person asked me which kind. Apparently, there are many different bimbers in Poland. Or maybe the dude had already imbibed so much he was talking rot:-)
Of course there are many different kinds of moonshine you can easily make. Vodka, rum, whiskey and even flavor them of to your liking.....cherry, peach, pear.....
Or maybe the dude had already imbibed so much he was talking rot
Or maybe he saw an under aged drinker and wondered what you would want real moonshine for. I thought 18-21 year olds were only allowed to drink 3:2 beer in Poland.
You have to be VERY CAREFUL of where you get it. If someone uses a tainted still or doesn't know exactly what they are doing the stuff can be poison and kill you. Many people have died from the rot gut.
The Irish equivalent is Poitín (pronounced putcheen). It was often made from potatoes and was produced illegally for years. It was said to cause blindness if you got a bad batch. I remember there was even a song about it. My mother used to sing it sometimes when she was in a playful mood. She was tee-total before you draw any conclusions........ 'Gather up the pots and the old tin can the mash, the corn, the barley, and the bran, run like the Divil from the excise man, keep the smoke from rising, Barney' (the smoke being the giveaway that there was a still located nearby). When they found a still, the Guards (Irish police) used to simply smash the barrels with axes and empty them into the sea.
Ah, here you go I found the song on You Tube: youtube.com/watch?v=_G06xa-jJMA
