Always remember. Think before you drink! Hmmmm, do I have enough moonshine for the party tonight?
Materials
- 1 - 5-gallon container with a bottle neck (glass works best)
- 1 - cork with a hole through it
- 1 - small funnel with an extended glass end (a straw or glass tube will work)
- 1 - balloon
- 5 lb bag of sugar (Optional--2-3 pkgs of fruit)
- Any amount of brewers yeast. (Can be ordered from any chemical supply co)
Process
Start off by mashing the berries (if you have them)
into a pulp. If you have the berries you are making wine, if not, you are
making shine. Pour the berries into the
container and add the yeast. Slide the glass funnel or straw through the cork.
Place the balloon over the funnel or the part of the straw that will be outside
the bottle. Cork the bottle and place it in a well-heated place. After a couple
of days the balloon will have inflated. Crack the cork open and let some of the
air out (not all of it though!). Smells
good doesn’t it? Keep this up for about 5 weeks, until the balloon no longer
inflates.
Filtration
Remove the cork and set up some type of filtration
into another container. Use a funnel along with a filter (coffee filters work
great). Pour all of the mix through the
filter. After the filtration you have wine/moonshine. This needs to age a bit
to really start tasting good. It will taste pretty good right out of the
bottle, but will taste better a month later. Store it in glass containers in a
cool dark place.
Like it Stronger?
After distillation, the mix is about 20 to 30
proof. If you can obtain a distiller,
distill the alcohol out and remove some of the liquid. Add the alcohol back in. You can make it as strong as you like – 170
to 180 proof is easily obtained.
-Bob Gurkin
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