Moonshine Still Kits

The Stillhouse Rambler

• 10 Most Important Safety Tips for Moonshiners How to Make Moonshine Safely Folks often ask us how to make moonshine.  It isn't rocket science, but there is definitely a lot to consider.  In fact, one of the first things to consider when making moonshine is safety. Here is a list of 10 of the most important safety issues that moonshiners should know and understand: Only use a pure copper moonshine still assembled with lead...
• How to Make Moonshine : Part 1 - The Mash What is Moonshine? The depression, prohibition, and limited access to the mountainous region of Appalachia gave rise to an almost forgotten yet legendary beverage called moonshine.   “Moonshine” is a generic term for homemade whiskey.  The term was coined due to the fact that early “bootleggers” often made their whiskey in the middle of the nigh...
• How to Make the Best Peach Moonshine This year we spent memorial day weekend at the Fiddlers Grove old time music festival in Union Grove, North Carolina.  Not only was it a weekend filled with great music, there was also some pretty darn good moonshine floating around!  We were fortunate enough to find ourselves in the middle of a jam fueled by a couple jars of peach shine.  We also got a chance to talk with the ...
• RSS Feed It seems like it about takes a degree in computer science to navigate the web these days... I'm guessing that some of you, like me, have been wondering what all these little orange and white buttons are the have been popping up all over the web. You know, the little orange boxes with the dot in the lower left hand corner, framed in by two arcs...  Well, mystery solved: It's called...
• Hybrid Electric Moonshine Still With Built In Element Here's a picture of a 20 gallon still equipped with a bung sized for a water heater electric element. That's right, it's a hybrid!  It also has a slightly larger column than the normal 20 gal. What I like about electric element moonshine stills: They cost less to run than stills fueled with propane.  Propane is about the most expensive fuel out...
• How to Clean a Copper Moonshine Still While some folks take their stills apart and hide the pieces in random bushes and gullies on the back 40, others not only keep them together, but keep them out in the open for display.  Quite a few folks have asked us how to keep the copper bright and shiny, so we decided to write this "how to" guide.   First things first, copper is not naturally shiny.  Over time t...
• We're Back: 5 Gallon Moonshine Still Kits Now Available 5-20-2011 We've worked out all of our manufacturing issues and are now rolling again!  Once again, we apologize for all new and existing customers about recent unavailability of the 5 gallon moonshine still kits.  We're glad to be back on our feet and appreciate your patience and encouragement. In case you missed it, the North Carolina ABC informed us (at our request) that producing...
• Update On Our Move To Tennessee UPDATE (on the update): We're back!  See this article for our most recent status. We're happy to report that the move to Tennessee is going well.  We hired a new machinist last week and were hopeful that the parts would be cut this week.  Unfortunately, we're the new guys and we had to work our way into their existing schedule.   All back-orders were supposed to be run...
• Modern Day Prohibition This past Friday the North Carolina Alcohol Control Board informed us that we are not allowed to manufacture moonshine still kits in the State of North Carolina.  The kits can be purchased by and shipped to residents of North Carolina, but they can't be made here due to a technicality in the way our laws are written! Apparently prohibition era laws established, literall...
• Moonshine Still Kits are Here! Wooo hoooo!  We're very excited to announce that our 5 gallon moonshine still kit is ready to order! How To Make A Moonshine Still Video:  Screen Shots Still kits will feature all materials and instructions needed for construction of a premium, all copper column still.  We decided to stick with the traditional column still design that we offer f...
• Moonshine Still Kits We're pleased to announce that the Moonshine Still Kits are almost ready! Our target completion date is April 15th. We'll begin taking pre-orders at the beginning of April, so get ready! UPDATE:  The 5 gallon moonshine still kit is available for order!! The kits feature everything needed to construct all copper moonshine stills and come with "How to Make a Moonshine Still" ...