Know How – Distilling Spirits at Home
- How to make moonshine at home?
- What should I pay attention to when preparing a moonshine mash?
- How can I avoid the formation of poisonous methanol?
- When must the moonshine be diluted?
- Which kind of still do I need for distilling spirits at home?
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Calculations
You are distilling spirits? If you make your own alcohol at home, you’ll probably need some calculations to produce moonshine by yourself. Here you find the main calculators online:
- After distilling spirits at home you have to dilute the alcohol: The alcohol dilution calculator computes the amount of water needed to dilute the alcohol you received after distilling.
- Mixing two liquids with different alcohol contents for distilling: calculate the moonshine alcohol percentage
- Sugar-alcohol-conversion calculator: Yeast converts sugar to alcohol. Find out how much sugar is needed to get a certain alcohol content in a mash or wine.
- Alcoholometry of sugary liquors: Calculator to determine exactly the moonshine alcohol content in homemade sugary alcoholic beverages.
Forum
You have questions on how to make moonshine or about a copper moonshine still? You find a lot of know-how in our forums on home distillation:
- Specialist questions: Here you can put questions on how to make homemade alcohol, they will be answered by Dr. Schmickl and Dr. Malle.
- Moonshine mash recipes and spirits recipes: Exchange moonshine recipes with others on mashes, spirits, and infusions. Or do you already know a fancy spirit recipe which you want to share?
- How to make alcohol? Discuss with others all topics on distilling spirits and find numerous instructions for constructing your own still.
The Still
Information on purchasing a small copper still and self-constructed stills:
- How to make a homemade still? Foto gallery of self-constructed stills from all over the world. Here you can find ideas for your self-constructed alcohol still.
- Six rules for your self-construction or the purchase of a moonshine still.
How to Make Moonshine – 5 Steps
Finally there is a short beginners’ instruction for how do you make moonshine in good quality:
- Five steps to get your own distilled spirits.
- Further information you find in our books about home distilling, distill videos, blog-moonshine, essential oil and vinegar and our distillation classes.
