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[wterrell]

Just off to the east of my house here, is the remnants of a moonshine still. â??Bout a mile outâ??n the woods, sorta away from people. Itâ??s situate to the bottom of a hill on a branch (a small stream of water) that runs year â??round. Theyâ??s a huge pile of barrel rings and a BigO pot. Not much else left of the place â??cept that. That and a old Model A truck radiator. Donâ??t know who that place used to belong to.

Now to make a batcha good recipe, you need a coupla good men and one taster. Now the taster has to love shine and has to do all the tastinâ??. â??Cause by the time the shine is finished and needs totinâ??, he neednâ??t mind that hike back to the truck at the top of the hill, cause heâ??s always more than a jug full.

Now I could explain howta build a 'still', but I ainâ??ta gonna go into that, cause it'sa long, drawd out process that requires a lotta big technical words. Words like... BigO pot, airtight, steamline, thumper, condenser and truck radiator. But I can give you the ingredients. Coarse the amounts are gonna vary dependin on if youâ??re needin to feed out the pigs to take â??em to market.

1. sack of corn, cracked
2. box of rye, sprouted
3. bucket of wheat, sprouted
4. wheel barrel full of barley
5. water (not too muddy)

What you end up with is handmade hooch, the type that removes the hair offer your chest! Now you line up as many Mason or Kerr jars or oak barrels (figgerinâ?? the size of the batch) as you can find on the bank beside the branch and fill em up. Course this is after 5 or 6 days, dependin on the weather, how fast the mash ferments, and if you have any disasters such as foam over. (As a hint, be sure and cover your mash during fermenting. â??Specially, if it is situate under a tree!)

The jug fillin ain't as simple as pourin it up neither. The first jug be pure alcohol. So what you do is go down the line fillinâ?? each jug only half full. Then do what they called a 'turn-back' and start at the other end and finish filling the jugs. The next part is back breakin work of gettin all those jugs to the truck. They gotta be toted! This is where the tastinâ?? phase of the operation should commence if there werenâ??t a goodly amount of tastin goinâ?? on as you filled up the jugs!

At any rate, thatâ??s the recipe of makin good whiskey. Maybe I started a little too far down the recipe ladder. Maybe you didnâ??t want to know the basics. Maybe I shoulda just told ya how to float a umbrella in a glass diluted with soda pop. Let me go pull a cork and reconsider all this.