In summation, New Scotch Spirits will never legally sell any brand of spirit under the “moonshine” moniker. When I have done sugar washes I get around 1L of 70% alcohol per 1kg of sugar, so 2kg should bump it up nicely. Sat at an eye popping 100 PROOF, this shine hits with vanilla, sweet caramel married with corn flavours and subtle wheat notes to give this barrel aged expression a truly unique offering. I need a drink, and I don’t care whether it’s a vodka, a whiskey, or a moonshine masquerading as both. with these stills you would have to run it through multiple times to get a pure product but this will be a more traditional way of doing it.

When your air lock stops bubbling, then the fermentation is complete, if you taste the liquid now it should not taste sweet anymore which is good because that means the sugars have been used up and turned to alcohol. Unleash the magic of the moonlit night with our Vodka Moonshine, a captivating fusion of tradition and innovation. I made up a paste of flour and water and put it all around the leaking clamp, the heat from the still baked it on and stopped the leak. Eventually the cap will fall back in on its own, this will start to happen as the fermentation slows down. And you don't want the end of the run when it gets below 30% ABV (60 proof) as this will taste funny too because of the fusel oils.Ensure your condenser is cold, I use a Liebig so I made sure it had water running through it, this will condense the vapor back in to liquid.

You should also be allowing your fermenter to cool to the same temp at this point as well, it will cool slower than the jug because of the volume. A triple distilled vodka, ideal on its own, with ice, or as a mixer to create your flavour cocktails. In addition to being distilled only from grains, a grain spirit MUST “kiss” the inside of an oak barrel if it’s to be qualified as a whiskey. Yeast, I used an ale yeast but you could use bakers yeast or wine yeast EC-1118 is my fav wine yeast.

Under this conception, “moonshine” is just a whiskey that hasn’t been taxed… and the saga of colonial America’s refusal to pay taxes on its distilling operations is a critical part of our nation’s history that we’ll detail in future posts. If you have a look at some of the labels for vodka some of them say they are triple filtered, this means they have put it through a carbon filter 3 times. this is not normally a problem for a sugar wash, and you can sometimes get away with it on an All grain as well.

when making your cuts, its not as cut and dry as doing it specific percentages, its more about the taste of the spirit. We recommend that you do not rely solely on the information presented here and that you always read labels, warnings, and directions before using or consuming a product.Strain the water out of them and pop them in your fermenter, I wrapped a blanket round mine to keep the heat in while I boiled up more potatoes. Versatile in cocktails or sipped neat, this prohibition-inspired spirit is the key to unlocking unforgettable evenings.