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Yeah that's what I had too the first kit I did was just extract an hour boil and 1 hop addition. I did some other more complicated stuff later with the specialty grains like you said. I'm sure I'll get back into it at some point but right now it's just easier to buy beer. When I was buying my kits I was buying from Northern Brewer but I don't know that I'd use them again since Inbev bought them. Kinda defeats the homebrewing spirit if you're buying your malts from Budweiser.

Nothing quite like a Bristle distillation!

You can also be blinded if you screw up either bad enough.

The #1 barter for when the SHTF.

It’s too cheap to spend the time making it.

I recall several years back a younger guy on my roofing crew, his wife was on WIC. She would get several quart cans of Juicy-Juice a week for her 'allotment' to be given to thier child.

He would use that as concentrate to make his home made wine.

The things people do with govt benefits...have to shake my head.

Ive been brewing my own beers for three years now. To say that you will save monies is like getting married so that you can have sex all the time. I started with extracts and quickly migrated to "all-grain" beers. I only brew the darker, stronger (stout) beers, as I can purchase the lights and medium beers cheaply enough. It costs me about $85 to brew 10 gallons of beer, or a bit over 4 cases. In the stout beer world, many 4 packs run $15-$20 per. I can also change the recipe to change to my liking on any given day. The beers I brew typically end up in the 8.5-10% range once fermented and kegged.

https://www.whiskeystill.net/ get the 10 gallon unit

I've made both beer and wine. Frankly, by the time you invest in the equipment, bottles, caps, corks, and miscellaneous stuff besides the actual ingredients, you don't save much. Less if you have to toss the occasional batch. And unless you surgically clean everything from vats and hoses to the bottles, you WILL have to toss batches. Bottles can be the hardest thing to come by as well as to clean, btw. I finally realized that I was making the stuff much faster than I drink it. I quit.

I get Shiner Bock for a buck a bottle. Whyinhell would I bother making stuff that isn't as consistently good?

i wouldn't buy a stillfrom a vendor. they have to report everyone sold to the feds, its simple to make your own.

How does that happen?

You have to throw away the bad stuff that comes out of the still before the good stuff starts running.

There's a learning curve to everything... sometimes the lessons are harsh.

One of our customers brought me a (supposedly) good bottle of wine for Christmas...It tasted like fermented, half rotten, sour grapes...I've had other wines and IMHO, most tasted like schitt...I guess I'll never be a "connoisseur" of fine wines...I had home made blackberry brandy years ago, and it was quite tasty....

if you are fermenting fruits, find a way to measure pectin and other wonderful stuff in it.
fermented pectin ( found in apples and other fruits ) generates nasty stuff ( wood alcohol , formaldehyde ,etc .. )
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pectin

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There was a place that sold fresh apple cider from their own press, back when I was in high school.

We put it in 1 gallon glass jugs. Those jugs had screw on steel lids. We'd put them up in the top of our closet and just let them sit there until you could see the lid bulging a bit... We knew it was "done" then.

Hard cider!

This right here.

You guys making Silage should look into Corn Squeezins.

That's pretty smart. Australia?

8 or 16 gallon kegs are the way to go. Look for tri clover fittings and building a lieblong condenser. Pro tip, Soft copper bends really easy packed full of salt.

I would never buy one to use but if you want to see some art check this out

http://www.coppermoonshinestills.com/id5.html

Gotta distill to make brandy.

A couple of guys I have worked with made their own. One had a still and made whiskey.His Grandfather was a moonshiner in east Texas and he used his old recipe. Had a pony beer keg with an electronically controlled heater that was a precise means of boiling off the alcohol and not the other liquids. It was very strong and tasted awful. He gave me a couple of bottles and I regifted them. I told him it was good stuff.
The other guy made country wines. He used any and everything you could ferment. Mostly fruits. He gave me a couple of bottles and his was pretty good. He thought it was worthwhile and experimented a lot., It wasn't as good as some 4 dollar bottles you could buy.
I have tasted other homebrew and moonshines. The reason for doing it from what I have tasted would be simply for the satisfaction of making your own.

Hobby when a person retires???