Anyone like to sip a little Moonshine ???

I tried it once. Made God a promise that if he'd just let me survive it I'd never touch the stuff again. He did and I didn't.

I'll just stick with my Crown Royal Black, Quervo Gold, Cold River Vodka, Captain Morgan's Spiced Rum, Saffire Gin, Jim Beam and good old Texas beer Shiner Bock. Yep, just gonna dance with the ones that brung me. ;)
 
70 proof shine?

that's baby formula compared to true shine which should be in the +/- 180 proof range, be clear and take your breath away if you tossed back a shot. in hospitals we would get pharmaceutical grade alcohol that was 199 proof, 99.5 % pure! we would fill a syringe with it and spike Christmas rum balls with just a cc/ml and watch whoever ate it turn purple. you really need to mix something that strong to be drinkable. and yes alcohol that strong is highly flammable. I make my own rheumatiz medicine from everclear, only 150 proof here in Fl with my meyer lemons and tangerines from my trees. I try to keep it strong enough to not freeze, or be dangerously flammable. nailed the batch last year. 5 gallons and it went real fast as gifts and bribes for hunting privileges. the only time I get drunk is when I'm doing the filtering of my tonic. there's always a teaspoon or 2 of the sediment left after straining/filling each fifth bottle, that would be a sin to throw away. very labor intensive, but a labor of love.
 
hangnoose said:
that's baby formula compared to true shine which should be in the +/- 180 proof range, be clear and take your breath away if you tossed back a shot. in hospitals we would get pharmaceutical grade alcohol that was 199 proof, 99.5 % pure! we would fill a syringe with it and spike Christmas rum balls with just a cc/ml and watch whoever ate it turn purple. you really need to mix something that strong to be drinkable. and yes alcohol that strong is highly flammable. I make my own rheumatiz medicine from everclear, only 150 proof here in Fl with my meyer lemons and tangerines from my trees. I try to keep it strong enough to not freeze, or be dangerously flammable. nailed the batch last year. 5 gallons and it went real fast as gifts and bribes for hunting privileges. the only time I get drunk is when I'm doing the filtering of my tonic. there's always a teaspoon or 2 of the sediment left after straining/filling each fifth bottle, that would be a sin to throw away. very labor intensive, but a labor of love.
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Well, I know I swore off the stuff after my first experience and I haven't tried it again since. Have no idea who made it or what it was made out of etc. My BIL got it from a co-worker and it was brutal.

But I must admit that you sound like you know what you're doing and you make yours sound very good. I'd hate to go back on my word to God but If I had a chance to sample some of yours I'm afraid I'd be tempted. :D
 
SIP, being the key word.

I wish I had some to share. frost killed both my meyer lemon and my tangerine trees. I've planted 2 more but it's gonna be a few years to get the yield I need. I won't use storebought fruit. maybe someone local that grows them and doesn't go crazy with the chemicals. straight in a tumbler glass with ice, that's it. sipped slowly and savored. I can't see paying for good expensive booze and ruining it with sodey pop. that's what the cheap stuff is for, IMO.
 
I was at the Jim Beam Distillery last week; they are marketing a clear whiskey called Ghost. It is from their raw dog used to make the bourbon; bottled before it goes to new white oak barrel that has been charred. I don't recall the proof but I did taste it, it tasted like corn. Beam Bourbon Is 51% corn 32% rye, and 17% malted barley yeast and water.
 
hangnoose said:
that's baby formula compared to true shine which should be in the +/- 180 proof range, be clear and take your breath away if you tossed back a shot. in hospitals we would get pharmaceutical grade alcohol that was 199 proof, 99.5 % pure! we would fill a syringe with it and spike Christmas rum balls with just a cc/ml and watch whoever ate it turn purple. you really need to mix something that strong to be drinkable. and yes alcohol that strong is highly flammable. I make my own rheumatiz medicine from everclear, only 150 proof here in Fl with my meyer lemons and tangerines from my trees. I try to keep it strong enough to not freeze, or be dangerously flammable. nailed the batch last year. 5 gallons and it went real fast as gifts and bribes for hunting privileges. the only time I get drunk is when I'm doing the filtering of my tonic. there's always a teaspoon or 2 of the sediment left after straining/filling each fifth bottle, that would be a sin to throw away. very labor intensive, but a labor of love.
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WOW! You brought back a memory that had been covered in a haze since 1968. I was working the emergency room at General Leonard Wood Army hospital, we planned a party for some medics and Doctors that were going to NAM. Everclear, fruit balls and a little punch. It started well, no problems. One guy sat next to the punch bowl used the dipper to fill his glass. After we had partied for a while he started asking folks to help him up so he could go to the bathroom. He would move his legs like he was walking in a sitting position. The guy had a great since of humor and we all laughed thinking he was doing it to get a laugh. After a while I looked over and he was dipping his glass in the punch bowl and spilling most of it trying to drink it. I asked some guys to help get him up he went straight down and then he tried to walk laying on his side. We drug him to the bathroom sat him down on the pot. Later someone found him passed out. We pulled him and his pants up and threw him in bed.

I remember it was a Friday night, most of us woke up Saturday afternoon and no one remembered the last of the party..

The party boy's last name was Schaeffer and he was a draftee, I believe he was from the Pittsburg, Pa area. He called us once. He was in an armored personnel carrier and it took a direct hit, both his eardrums were ruptured. He was being sent back stateside, we never heard from him again. I hope he made a full recovery.
 
CAJUNLAWYER said:
Our priest brought some back he got from his brother who got it from some guy around Kiln Mississippi. Good stuff.
One of the cane farmers bought a still and made some pretty good Rum from the molasses he got from the mill.
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Up into the 1960's making illegal liquor was a major cash crop in Hancock County and The Kiln was famous for its smooth, high quality 'shine. Folks claimed that it was so good that during Prohibition buyers even came down here from Tennessee to get the "Kiln Cream" to take back home. When we were kids hunting in the area our elders admonished us to stay clear of any activity in the woods and if we stumbled on a still we were to keep quiet and slowly back away from the area. It seems that those old boys didn't take kindly to visitors intentional or otherwise.
There is still some to be had here and there but most of the old time makers are long gone and most folks prefer the bonded kind these days.
 
Thuer said:
We do not have Moonshine overhere. :(
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You don't know what yo're missing; It's really good stuff. I'm surprised you don't have any: I was more than a little surprised when I visited a friend in New Zealand a few years ago and fond there was a moonshine tradition in New Zealand;... and they're mostly beer drinkers.
 
Moonshine can be any type illicitly distilled liquor.. not just corn.

Moonshine has many things said about it that are untrue or just something that was told and then passed on.

180 proof is 90% alcohol.. I just don't believe many, if anyone, could swallow a mouth full and say anything for a few minutes!
On the show you might have seen Jim Tom take a drink from the first out of the worm and say.."..boy that's good!"... yeah right!:D
Most great liquors has a proof between 80-95 proof and you must have a balance between proof and the natural flavor of the mash(wash). Your great liquor is taken from the cut known as the "heart" and is always aged...
Oh, you do know that a run of liquor from a still has 4 different cuts!?
 
In the late 60's I knew an older black gentleman from Kiln that delved in the art of making Moonshine. He told me that he bought used whiskey barrels from legal distilleries in Tennessee and he put his product in the barrels and by the time he got out of the woods in his pickup truck, the sloshing around of the shine in the charred barrels would impart enough color for him to considered it "Aged".

He also told me that he blended the shine from several runs until an egg would float in the blend and that when the egg floated, that the shine was 104 proof.

I have not proved his facts, I have only presented what he told me.

His product was some of the best that I have tried.

If you would like to try an excellent Corn based Vodka, I recommend Tito's. It is made in Texas and is the smoothest corn based liquor that I have ever tried.
 
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It appears that moonshine has gone mainstream on us....all the illegal stills now have Madison Avenue doing their advertising. Lost count of the brands of legit moonshine that are now gracing the pages of GQ, Men's Health, et al.
 
Me Too

rwsmith said:
I shared a jar with an friend in the smokies. On the trip out of the mountains the next day my wife had to drive while I suffered with each bend in the road.:(
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I've been that way too. Obviously we should have done as the thread asked, which was sip. Not share a jar. But I never learn my lessons the first time. Which means that I'll probably do it again.:)

SWCA #1834
 
Ohhh.... Yea... :D

Me and a friend used to make shine years ago.
(Never sold anything by the way)

But i think i got to close to using it every day :o
so i quit.

Only drink the legal stuff now because it is to expesive for me.

Can't afford to be a drunk :rolleyes:
 
I have a mason jar with some shine. I don't really care for the taste. Most of what I have had in the past I have used to make Apple Pie. That stuff will kick your butt! For sipping I like Gentleman Jack. I had a jar of Junior Johnson's Georgia Moon. I didn't care for it either, it went into a batch of Apple Pie.
Some recipes for Apple Pie call for everclear. I had some of Junior Johnson's apple pie and I didn't care for the taste of that either.
 
I heard that several years ago an old man walked away from his home in the Riceville community (Near Asheville, NC). Search parties were organized and the searchers walked past many moonshine stills looking for him. I hear they did find him alive.
 
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