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Re: Georgia Hooch!
« Reply #10 on: February 09, 2011, 12:03:18 PM »
Quote from: Hazcat on February 09, 2011, 10:26:21 AM
After many readers requested information about home-distilling I decided to write to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms (ATF) asking how one can legally make whiskey for personal use.  I figured that it required extensive red-tape and paying taxes on the production.  I discovered that it is illegal to make liquor at home under any circumstances:

    26 U.S.C. 5178(a)(1)(B):  No distilled spirits plant for the production of distilled spirits shall be located in any dwelling house, in any shed, yard, or inclosure connected with any dwelling house, or on board any vessel or boat, or on premises where beer or wine is made or produced, or liquors of any description are retailed, or on premises where any other business is carried on (except when authorized under subsection (b)).

Very similar language can be found in the regulations under 27 CFR 19.131.  This regulation can be accessed through ATF's Web Site. Consider writing your congressman and senators to reduce the tax burden on liquor and to establish reasonable guidelines for personal-use distilling.  It is legal in some parts of the world, such as New Zealand.

http://www.mindspring.com/~mccarthys/whiskey/corn.htm

If I read that right you cannot distill in:

1.  Any dwelling house
2.  Any shed, yard or incllosure connected with any dwelling house
3.  Any boat or vessel
4.  Any premise where beer or wine is made or produced or liquors of any description are retailed
5.  Any premise where any other business is carried out (with some exceptions)

So, from all that, if I own a building not associated with any dwelling and it is not a boat and there is no business going on there, I can do my distilling there?
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Re: Georgia Hooch!
« Reply #11 on: February 09, 2011, 12:31:05 PM »
If you want white lightning here in KY it's easy to find. Our office manager kept a mason jar on her shelf for snakebites ;D

She informed me that her dad always ran a still and made sipping whisky because he used corn mash and not just sugar.

It's got too much bite for me to enjoy.
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Re: Georgia Hooch!
« Reply #12 on: February 09, 2011, 03:01:13 PM »
Quote from: Solus on February 09, 2011, 12:03:18 PM
If I read that right you cannot distill in:

1.  Any dwelling house
2.  Any shed, yard or incllosure connected with any dwelling house
3.  Any boat or vessel
4.  Any premise where beer or wine is made or produced or liquors of any description are retailed
5.  Any premise where any other business is carried out (with some exceptions)

So, from all that, if I own a building not associated with any dwelling and it is not a boat and there is no business going on there, I can do my distilling there?


it SEEMS like you could get away with that.
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Re: Georgia Hooch!
« Reply #13 on: February 09, 2011, 03:22:21 PM »
It is legal to manufacture grain alcohol (like ethanol) to be used as fuel. The process is basically the same as making shine. The big difference is the amount of sugar present in the original source material (like corn, sugar beets, etc) and whether you have to add it or not.
I do not know if a permit is required, but I do know for a fact that it can be done legally because my son and his ag class made several batches of it on campus in their bio-fuels class a few years back. He was on the FFA bio-fuels resource team his junior year and they made multiple batches using a variety of ingredients. Heck, his ag teacher even printed off copies of the recipe and procedure for cooking it and said it was drinkable alcohol. He brought some home and I ran it in my lawn mower mixed 50/50 with gas.
He had his picture took with the Governor of GA and the governor was holding a Mason jar of the stuff.
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Re: Georgia Hooch!
« Reply #14 on: February 09, 2011, 03:38:13 PM »
Hi;

     Just to comment on Billt's post.  Here in Pa  you can buy the Georgia Shine to this day. It is a sippin brew for sure. Keep in mind that Junior Johnson of NASCAR fame is also a maker and distributor of his "Juniors Shine" brand. From a interview of him 1-2 years ago on the Sirius Nascar channel he sells it in Virginia and States south of there.

     I have not come across his Brand of yet, but will buy a jar when I can.
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Re: Georgia Hooch!
« Reply #15 on: February 09, 2011, 04:12:09 PM »
Our liquor stores sell a product called Georgia Moon. Pure corn, white liquor at 80 proof, and it comes in a 1qt mason jar!

For those of us that love the taste of good corn liquor it hits the spot! At 10 bucks a qt it's a fairly good deal! LOL!
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Re: Georgia Hooch!
« Reply #16 on: February 09, 2011, 04:25:45 PM »
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Re: Georgia Hooch!
« Reply #17 on: February 09, 2011, 04:30:08 PM »
Yep, that's it, Peg!  (good stuff, too!)
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Re: Georgia Hooch!
« Reply #18 on: February 09, 2011, 04:39:22 PM »
Quote from: McGyver on February 09, 2011, 04:30:08 PM
Yep, that's it, Peg!  (good stuff, too!)

Funny, mine never had labels........  :o  :o   ;)
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Re: Georgia Hooch!
« Reply #19 on: February 09, 2011, 05:05:46 PM »
I've only had about four ounces of the stuff, in one sitting.  I've had Everclear when mixed with punch on the beach in Key West.  We could buy it at the PX on base for a couple of bucks a bottle.

A Navy buddy of mine managed to smuggle a jar of shine through customs when he came back from Virginia while were stationed in Iceland.  It tasted like fire, kicked like a mule on crack and knocked my skinny little sailor ass pretty good.....

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