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I'm east of the frost warning but the stoves going slow n steady already.
Moonshine that taste like kerosene most likely was ran to hot. Everything in a moonshine mash has a different boiling point. Methanol and acetone distills at the lowest temps and is the first thing that you see come out of a worm. It doesn't taste like kerosene, it taste and smells like finger nail polish remover, and it is the stuff that will make you go blind. Fusel oils distill at a higher temp than ethanol and is what gives moonshine that oily film and can taste like kerosene. You need some fusel oils to get the taste of the mash, but to much, is, well its just to much. water quality plays a big part in how smooth the finished product will be. My well water was terrible for making shine. To many minerals. My buddy has good water and made good shine. He got busted early this year. He hadn't made any shine in about 2 years, battling cancer. He had a few gallons set back and gave a quart to a trader. Well the trader sold a gun to a under cover cop and they found the shine in his car. It was down hill from there. I still have a little hid back. My wife makes her tonics with it, but I seldom sample it unless I have a cough. best shine made from corn is using Mesa mill for the mash. The ground mill has been soaked in lime water and will give the shine a sweet taste. It is also ground like flour and will fermet fast and produce more alcohol than cracked corn or cornmeal.I have tasted diesel before when siphoning fuel. It doesn't taste as bad as it smells, but is so oily that you can't get the taste out of your mouth. Have to eat some bread to try and absorb the residue.
Here in Tennessee there are lots of new distilleries popping up selling what they label as moonshine. But moonshine is by definition illegal so if you can buy it in a store it is not moonshine. Real moonshine is made under the cover of dark, hence the name. Everclear (95% grain alcohol) is about the closest thing in a liquor store to traditional moonshine. If you got moonshine from some redneck up the hollow and it smells like diesel, it likely contains methonal and the oily colognes not to mention that the still probably isn't food grade. I am not saying that there isn't good shine out there, but the not safe stuff is much more common. If the government would quit tax gouging and let people live there lives, you would have more reputable people doing the distilling and get a better product.
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how did the iron wood burn? as a kid I remember it being so dense that it would barely float when fresh cut and it being a real bear to cut with an axe (boy scouts...do not ask )Been down to 0* here for a few nights now (that's 32 for all my US friends)
Have had a few fires to warm the 1200 sq ft house and the cats are also loving it.
Dog likes the warmth too.
I'm burning a lot of Ash this year.
Had lots of Hop Hornbeam (Ironwood) last year
Have a few cords of Red Oak for next year.
Also have a couple cords of Sugar Maple, Cherry, and Elm for next year and year after.
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