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Market => Product requests => Topic started by: pscdetriment on February 23, 2012, 04:09 am
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Recently moved to an area where moonshine distilleries are nonexistent. Suggestions?
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It's pretty easy to make your own once you've built a still and have a place to run it. A FOF has his own and after the initial $200 investment, there's an unlimited supply of very cheap shine available. The math is very straightforward.
$6 for yeast
+ $10 for propane (energy used to boil)
+ $11 for sugar
+ $0.25 for water
+$5 for activated carbon (for polishing, optional step)
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$32.25 yields about 8 Litres of %40 vodka. We pay about $20/litre for comparable vodka from where I am in Canada. Thus, pretty big savings over the liqour store.
Not bad stuff at all and all of the myths about shine are just that, baloney. You can't produce the toxins that produce the illnesses of moonshine lore. They used to add wood alcohol back in the ol' days to fortify and increase the proof which led to blindness in higher quantities. Just don't do that and you're fine.
My FOF has considered selling shine here on SR but the weight of shipping liquids might be prohibitive and the cost to the end buyer would likely end up on par with the liquor store, making the while exercise kind of useless. I think the only way to do it at a profit for both parties would be in large quantities and delivered by hand locally.
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Yeah I live in an apartment complex so no go on the MYO moonshine :( Also I have questionable residency status in the US so I can't really get an ID to buy from liquor stores myself.
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It's pretty easy to make your own once you've built a still and have a place to run it. A FOF has his own and after the initial $200 investment, there's an unlimited supply of very cheap shine available. The math is very straightforward.
$6 for yeast
+ $10 for propane (energy used to boil)
+ $11 for sugar
+ $0.25 for water
+$5 for activated carbon (for polishing, optional step)
___________________
$32.25 yields about 8 Litres of %40 vodka. We pay about $20/litre for comparable vodka from where I am in Canada. Thus, pretty big savings over the liqour store.
Not bad stuff at all and all of the myths about shine are just that, baloney. You can't produce the toxins that produce the illnesses of moonshine lore. They used to add wood alcohol back in the ol' days to fortify and increase the proof which led to blindness in higher quantities. Just don't do that and you're fine.
My FOF has considered selling shine here on SR but the weight of shipping liquids might be prohibitive and the cost to the end buyer would likely end up on par with the liquor store, making the while exercise kind of useless. I think the only way to do it at a profit for both parties would be in large quantities and delivered by hand locally.
Damn, I'm tempted. I have seen it listed around here previously, though...
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forget moonshine y'all need to try my POITIN google it and let me no if any1 is interested real irish shit shipped from ireland and is as clear as water so is easy to hide for shippin
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Poitin is just high-proof potato vodka. Moonshine isn't a type of alcohol, just illicitly produced booze.
All alcohol production just comes down to feeding a yeast which essentially 'poops' out the ethanol that we drink for fun. That sugar comes from starch when you use potato, corn, barley, sugar cane, whatever. Regardless of what you use, it's difficult to make a profit with it on SR due to the shipping cost.
Pscdetriment, what would you be willing to pay for a litre/quart of 75% vodka? I'm curious whether there's a profit to be had lol...
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i can buy poitin from the shop at 80 to 90% so i think i can do a good price il have to check it out