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Hard Lemonade. When life hands you lemons, most people make lemonade. I prefer to make alcohol. This recipe starts out with an all-natural, preservative-free organic lemonade (which I found for silly cheap by the caseload at a market near my house). The benefit is that the final product tastes that much better, and it’s way less work. This recipe results in a smooth, balanced, not too sweet not too sour hard lemonade. It’s absolutely amazing with a muddled spring of mint and lots of ice on a nice hot summer day. Bearchell's Hard Lemonade 20 Litres Santa Cruz organic lemonade 750 mL blueberry honey 10 organic lemons Lalvin EC-1118 champagne yeast 2 Litres water, or as necessary to top up the primary ¾ tsp Potassium metabisulphite ¾ tsp Potassium sorbate 6 cups dextrose to back sweeten, to taste Pour the lemonade directly into your primary, being sure to splash vigorously to introduce lots of oxygen.

Stupidly, I didn’t measure the OG, but the final was around the 1.000 mark. Sneak your beer around in a fast food cup. Brewing. Modesto Mashers Forum - Index. View forum - Grains. More moonshining with Popcorn Sutton. How to make corn mash. Malting Corn. Trthskr4 method you posted looks similar to one on parent site.

Malting Corn

---Jack gives his method for malting ... Malting is easy - o Soak the grain for 72 hours (change the water every 24 hours) while soaking put an aquarium pump/air stone in the water so it bubbles through the bed of grain (it should have a good few inches of water over the top of the grain). o After the soak, put the grain in a bucket with hundreds of little holes drilled in it, then sit this bucket into another bucket that has a couple of inches of water in it.

Put the air stone from the air pump into the bottom bucket so it bubbles up through the water- leave the lid on loose so the air can be exchanged by the pump. It's a pain to get it to grind when it's wet, though. It will have a higher enzymatic activity - but not noticeably. Drying is complete when the malt weighs the same as the original amount of grain you started with. This system (using 5 gallon buckets) works best with 5 pound amounts at a time (starting weight). Moonshine Recipes. Moonshine Recipes Free Recipe In making "Mountain Dew" or "White Lightning'" the first step is to convert the starch of the grain into sugar.

Moonshine Recipes

(Commercial distillers use malt.) This is done by "sprouting" the corn. Shelled, whole corn is covered with warm water in a container with a hole in the bottom. Jonny's Hard Cider Ice Cream. EdWort's Apfelwein. Skeeter Pee - Page 7. Quote: I haven't made it yet, but I'll answer from what I know.

Skeeter Pee - Page 7

The most common yeast used is probably going to be either montrachet or cuvee, since those are probably the most commonly used yeast overall AFAIK. You can't make "skeeterpee" without a wine yeast cake. The yeast cake is necessary because pure lemon juice is pretty hostile to fermentation and there are preservatives in the lemon juice used. If you pitched it like a normal wine or beer, it most likely wouldn't ferment. If you want to try, I wouldn't recommend it, but it might work cutting the ingredients down to 20%.

If you want to make skeeterpee, just make some apfelwein first and then make skeeterpee off of that. How to build and operate a still and produce your own alcohol. Copper Moonshine Stills & Moonshine Still Kits. Here are three easy ways to make moonshine mash.

Copper Moonshine Stills & Moonshine Still Kits

The first two methods are based on traditional corn whiskey recipes. The third method is a cheap and easy (and a good starting point for folks new to distilling), but isn’t recommended for someone serious about making a high quality product. Keep in mind that crafting moonshine combines both science and art. Don't forget about the technical details, but don't let them bog you down either. It should be fun, so don't forget to sip on something good while you're mashing. 1- Corn Whiskey Early American farmers found that the same amount of corn sold for a few dollars at market could easily yield a few hundred dollars after it was mashed, fermented and distilled. At Clawhammer Supply we’re sort of picky when it comes to moonshine and believe that pure all grain whiskey is the way to go when whipping up a batch of homemade hooch. 5 gallons of water 8.5 pounds of flaked maize 1.5 pounds of crushed malted barley.