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This is going on both of the blogs I can post on. 

How to Make Moonshine

It takes time and practice before you can whip up a good batch of moonshine that will be safe enough to drink, but making your own alcohol is one of the most enjoyable ways of breaking the law so here's how you do it.

Step 1, Mash
Buy 5lbs of cornmeal and make a mash by adding 20 gallons of boiling water and 20lbs of sugar.  When the mash has cooled to "warm" add 1.5oz of yeast.  Put this in a warm place for about 3 days to ferment (or until the mash stops bubbling).  After this, the mash will be converted to carbonic acid and alcohol, called "sour mash".

Step 2, Distillation
Distill your mash by heating to 173 degrees F. in a copper moonshine still.  At this temp. the alcohol(ethanol) rises to the top of the still and travels to the cooling part where it condenses and can be collected.  It will be a transparent liquid the colour of dark beer.

Step 3, Singlings
The first liquid to condense will contain volatile oils and should be discarded but after that the liquid can be collected in glass jars called "singlings".  The liquid from the end of the run is referred to as "low wine" and is onle about 10% alcohol so you should add this back to the mash and distill again.  Stop distilling when a tablespoon of low wine thrown on a naked flame won't burn.

Step 4, Distill Again, and Again
Empty the mash.  The ethanol collected in the first singlings will have the highest prof, and the proof level drops progressively after that.  All of your singlings will need to be distilled one or two more times to get rid of any impurities.  After three distillations, some of your singlings should contain ethanol up to 150 proof.  That's 75% alcohol.

Enjoy.  Here's a picture of one type of still to help you get started.

still pretty busy lately

I do want to get back in the habit of posting regularly again, despite how hectic things have been lately...so for now here's an infographic that i found interesting.  I promise some decent new content soon.  Nice to see I still have some followers :)  Thanks guys!

Returning to blogging

Well, since moving back to Florida my life has been incredibly chaotic and I just haven't had any time to write a blog or keep up with any of the blogs I follow.  This explains my lengthy absence and lack of new posts.  Also, I've had a terrible bout of writers block and just couldn't think of anything to post on here.

But now I'm getting settled in and used to being back home and I think I'll have enough time to start posting again so I hope some people will decide to come back to following me.  I've come up with some ideas to write about and we'll see how it goes.

My posts might be shorter and formatted more poorly than in the past because many of them may be written from my phone.  For example this post is done using the blogger app on my samsung epic.  I figure if my life is overly hectic, I can at least take the time to draft a few paragraphs every day from my phone even if I can't sit down at my laptop and do things right.

As for following other people, I may not always have time to comment on all the blogs I follow, but I should be able to read each of yours daily and check out articles and links even if I don't always comment.

So, with this explanation, consider me back, and wish me luck sticking with it when life gets hectic.  Thanks, as always, to my loyal suporters.  In closing, here's a picture of my kittah, Sebastion (I couldn't take my texas kitty "Crescent" with me when I moved).