[ethereal]

hey, theres a good band called 'moonshine still' too

awesome rig there, man...been curious about this too...want to try my hand at it one day

[wantaknow]

i like home made wine ,here is a good site coppermoonshinestills.com

[mtnjohn]

cool thread.....i always wanted to try making some liquor
made some wine a few times years ago...it was good but i'm not a huge wine drinker

prefrebly bourbon for me thank you...lol

mj

this is a very interesting thread, i'm enjoying following along...i don't brew or distill at home but i do make bho, which is why i'm posting...i think if u guys made bho and used that in ur processing it would be more effective than messing with the bud like that...the butane extracted resin does not need to be decarboxylated to be active, its all ready to go after the extraction...

i like to make brownies and instead of making nasty weird color cannabutter and a big mess i make a batch of bho or two, then after i get all the butane driven off i get the amount of canola oil i need for the recipe and put it in the dish holding the resin...i heat it very lightly and the canola dissolves all the bho right away...i find this to be quick, clean, no plant matter to worry about, much better tasting and wicked potent...friends eat my pot food and call off work the morning after when they are still fucked up, lol...

i think budshine would just be some of that moonshine with a few grams of bho dissolved in it! so the budka would just be some home vodka with an appropriate amount of bho dissolved in it...

jim how is that stuff? can u distill it more than once and will that make it better?

thanks guys and good luck with the projects

[jim_w]

Hi all!

Nug: I distill twice and get a very clean product. Irish whiskey is triple distilled, as are most vodkas. Carbon filtering (just use a water filter jug thing) improves the flavour a lot. To get really really clean stuff you need to spend a lot of money or be a very good metalworker. Or both...

[wantaknow]

take some corn let it sprout this burns of the carbs or sugar in the corn, then make your mash with that

Great thread. I have been looking at my lab style still and wondering what i can use it for at the moment. Probably need to adapt something bigger for putting the sugar in but shouldn't be hard.

[kiwi quad]

hi,i've got a super reflux still,each run i use 6kg sugar,water and yeast to get 3-3.5ltr at 93% then i water it down to 45% and filter through charcoal then i put it in glass containers with a few wood chips in each from chipped up old jim beam barrels for a couple of weeks or more,longer the better,then filter through 2 coffee filters and you have some awesome bourbon,i might be a bit bias but others also tell me its nicer than the bought stuff,i always thought it would be difficult but after makin it a few times its almost idiot proof and i would recommend everyone get one you wont look back,the only bummer for you thow is i think its illegal in the u.s,pity you dont live in the land of the free lol,i dont think they would be illegal to import tho cos it could be used to distill water too,i,m pretty p.c illiterate so i'll type in this address,i know shocking to not know how to add a link,www.yourshout.co.nz and remember your $$$ are worth twice as much ours so half price,hope i encouraged you to give it a try believe me its heaps easier than brewing beer,well im off to have a couple of b&b's (bourbons and bongs) & watch the rugby,cheers

[Dkgrower]

hey all i have brewed Ale cannabis beer, very easy and taste full as well, but i doubt that very much of the cannabinols are going in the beer, this is where i think i will try some thing new inspired by this tread, the recipe is down below.

But i add cannabis (outdoor) to the boiling soup 2 times when boilng and one time when it is not , so one will get the full aroma spectra of the plant (almost) in the soup. Now the new thing, insted of adding fresh tap water to the soup i make a ice hash solution and use that insted and also use the weed from ice extraction in the recipe like below. by going this route one will get the trichomes and some of the flavors that are so volatile that they evaporate i the boling or hot water.

recipe;

I use 60g, 20g og 20g grams of weed (well cured)and the same amouth of hops (alpha 4.5%) to 15 liters of water

Heat the water to 65 degrees celcius add 250g of crystal malt and hold the temp around 65 fore a 1/2 houre. remove the rest of the malt with a sieve and then add 3kg of dry blond malt extract and stir untill it is dissovled. Add 60 gram of weed and hops bring it to boil and let it simmer fore 45 min.

Now add 15gram of irsh moss and 20g weed and hops and let boil 15 min more.

Turn off the heat half way throug and after the 15 min add the last 20g of weed and hops after let it cool fore 10-15 mins and then sieve the soup into a wine ballon. When one is pouring the brew then do from a high distans from the sieve so the brew get incontact with the air.

Add fresh cold clean tap water with high calcium content, if low then add some calcium, so there is 25 liter all togehter.

Measure the temperatur it have to be under 25 and above 18, Before you add yeast, Idealy contant temp around 20 is good.

When the temp is in the range then add your pre made starter culture (made of 1 tabel spoon sugar and 2 malt extract to some boiling water and let cool to around 30 degree then add 14 g dry ale yeas and let i sit fore 3 days)

Now let the ballon sit fore 2 weeks now add a 1/2 liter of water where there is 500g of dissoveld white sugar.

Stir it around so it is well mixed and bottel the brew, leave 1 cm so the bottels dont pop. let the bottels/containers sit at 20 to 24 degrees celcius fore another 2 weeks then move them to a more chill location with temp around 10 to 15 degrees celcius after 2 months the ale is cleared and perfekt.

[D0nC0smic]

Hey Bastard i know i suggested this on another thread, but that one was pretty dead so i don't know if you saw it. To me the best way to make REALLY good Budka, would be to do it the way that they make Gin, which is to have a chamber attached to the collumn of your still where you can but a mesh bag with the buds in them, this way the alchohol would pass throught he buds as a vapor, which should strip the THC from them and then when the alchohol recondenses in the collection area the THC should be dissolved within it.