how to make hard liquor?

[Omegachi]

i don't know how to make hard liqour... in fact, i don't know how to make any type of alcoholic beverages from scratch. Can someone with experience please enlighten me?

 

[Neurorelay]

Go to Save-On, put money the counter and...voila.....liquor.

 

[Aimster]

www.google.com

 

[BigJ]

See here: http://www.countrybrewer.com.au/webcontent47.htm

Note, I'm not sure if it's legal to have your own still in the United States.

 

[thejackal1]

I think making hard liquor is illegal.

 

[chrisms]

Start with cereal wine

 

[alm4rr]

ever hear of moonshine?

 

[Deadtrees]

My girlfriend makes hard liquor out of me.

 

[Toastedlightly]

History Channel taught me how to make "White Lightning"

 

[shilala]

Originally posted by: thejackal1
I think making hard liquor is illegal.

I don't think it's illegal in PA. You're only allowed to make x amount for your own consumption though.

 

[Fritzo]

Well, take some whiskey, then freeze it.

Viola!!!! hard liquor!!!!

 

[Gibsons]

Originally posted by: BigJ
See here: http://www.countrybrewer.com.au/webcontent47.htm

Note, I'm not sure if it's legal to have your own still in the United States.

It's not.

 

Ask Grandpa for his secret recipe.

 

[white]

you can make beer, wine, mead and cider at home legally. under federal rules, you may not produce alcohol using a still unless you qualify as a distilled spirits plant.

Homebrewing Limits

 

[Kelemvor]

Put your liquor in the freezer

 

[MrBond]

It is illegal to own your own still in the US. That's actually sort of how I got started doing homebrewing actually.

My Dad and I were watching Cops and they were busting a guy for having a still. He did have a bunch of homebrewing equipment though, which got my Dad and I talking about it. Turned out that he had almost everything I needed to homebrew beer since he used to do it before I was born.

Bottling a batch this Saturday actually. Going to start another batch maybe next weekend, I've got to decide what I want to brew first.

 

[Adica]

Check with Hawkeye and Honeycut.

 

[Calin]

Originally posted by: Omegachi
i don't know how to make hard liqour... in fact, i don't know how to make any type of alcoholic beverages from scratch. Can someone with experience please enlighten me?

Leaving jokes apart, you need two things: one distiller, and one way to create alcohol.
Distiller: use a bent metal pipe that goes thru cold water. For best results, bent it in a spiral.
Use a closed pot that have a single output that is directed thru the bent pipe (let's name it condenser). When you heat the pot, water vapors and alcohol vapors (and other vapors) will steam thru the condenser and will condense as liquor. For best results (higher concentration), distill again the first result.
How do you obtain alcohol? Easiest way would be to distill wine. Another way - let anything containing sugar (like fruits) or containing other hydrocarbons (like corn) to ferment. The result will contain both ethanol (or alcohol you can drink) and methanol (alcohol that will make you blind).