How to Make Moonshine

In this video on how to make moonshine. We explain the process of making moonshine, step by step using an old moonshiners recipe, but this is also the way commercial distillers make moonshine today. If you've ever had Ol Smoky Original or Tim Smith's Climax Moonshine, you'll know that the flavor of the grains used to make the shine, particularly the corn, come through loud and clear. That's because they're all-grain moonshine recipes like the one we make here.

As an interesting side note, the process of making a moonshine mash is also the same process one would use to make a base for distilling fuel alcohol. We show that as well. Because we don't have permits to distill alcohol for consumption or to distill fuel alcohol, we won't be able to distill either. However, this recipe will be very helpful for those who do have a permit, particularly farmers, as they should have a fair amount of the ingredients on hand, plus will likely have equipment suitable for burning the fuel.

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Although making and selling spirits for consumption is legal for commercial distilleries, distilling alcohol for personal consumption (drinking) at home is not legal. In fact, distilling any kind of alcohol in the united states is illegal without a federal fuel alcohol or distilled spirit plant permit as well as relevant state and local permits. Additional legal information can be found in our article that answers the question of whether or not making moonshine is illegal: https://www.clawhammersupply.com/blog...

This information is for educational purposes only and is not to be relied on by any person or entity to make any decision or take any action whatsoever. Additionally, our distillation equipment is designed for legal uses only. Do not try this at home.

0:00 Introduction
0:13 Moonshine ingredients
0:19 Brewing equipment
0:26 Add water
0:47 Add ingredients
1:07 Gelatinization
1:26 Hook up hoses and pump
1:45 Add malted barley
2:34 Moonshine mash
3:33 Remove spent grain
4:45 Chilling
5:57 Transfer to fermentation bucket
6:30 Take a gravity sample
6:42 Alcohol content
7:19 Add yeast
8:00 Aerate
8:19 Distilling

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