home distilled alcohol?

Question

hi does anyone know the easiest way to make alcohol [cider beer or vodka or whats easiest] at home i dont want to by any machines just ingredients p.s any sites with tips??

Answer 1

Home distillation is illegal in the United States and is very dangerous if not properly supervised.

Home brewing and home winemaking are legal in the United States if you are of legal age to consume alcohol (21) . Perhaps the easiest alcohol to make at home is hard cider. If you live near an apple orchard or have access to unpasteurized apple cider you are set. Get a 3 gallon glass carboy (like a water cooler jug) a rubber stop, a funnel and an airlock (a home brew store should have all these). Also get some wine yeast (available at home brew store). Get two gallons of cider. At home wash the carboy, airlock, funnel and stop with a dilute bleach solution - 1 cap per 5 gallons water. Let them air dry while the cider comes to room temperature. When hardware is dry put cider into carboy using funnel. Rehydrate yeast in warm apple juice for about 10 minutes. Add yeast/juice to cider. Cap with stop and airlock. Within a week or so you should see fermentation in the cider - bubbles rising. When this action begins to subside you should have dry hard apple cider. Chill the cider and drink up.

Answer 2

Cider and beer are not distilled, and very easy to make, but you will need some containers, preparation and patience...

Distillation, if not done under very carefully controlled conditions, can be very dangerous indeed... not only is there a risk or fire/explosion, but, if you get it even slightly wrong, you can distill the wrong kind of alcohol... the toxic kind.

However, there is an alternative... freezing.
Make very, very strong cider.. freeze it. The water content will freeze, the alcohol won't. Pour off the still-liquid alcohol. Freeze it...
Keep going until it just won't freeze any more... and you have Applejack.


You may want to check your local laws, though... manufacturing alcohol is pretty strictly controlled in most places, for reasons of safety, and taxation :-)

Answer 3

You don't need machines, just containers big enough.

You can do wine or beer/cider easily at home. Here are some good places to start:
http://winemaking.jackkeller.net/
http://www.homewinemaking.co.uk/
http://howtobrew.com

Then do a google search for home brewing stores in your area. The people there are always helpful. They carry all the books you'll need, the ingredients, the tools, and so on.

Answer 4

i think that throughout the time of a few section's you could actual distill as much as two hundred gallons consistent with year for inner maximum use yet below particular circumstances. i think you will possibly desire to get helps and pay some taxes with the intention to accomplish that. making beer and whiskey (between different spirits) is particularly arduous and demands alot of kit in case you choose to do it top, yet on the different hand wine is low priced and basic to make. you could pass 2 routes in this one, low priced or high priced. low priced is buying grape juice, bakers yeast, sugar and fermenting the grape juice at room temp. high priced is actual buying the grapes and wine making yeast yet its nevertheless extremely priced. i think that Distilling your very own alcohol exchange into especially outlawed in the process the prohabition era (surpassed and repealed via the 18th and the twenty first exchange). Ohh and FYI, do no longer thumb's down human beings's comments b/c they are top or you choose the final answer. you could seek for each little thing i stated and its the fact. 2 hundred gallons may well be in some areas yet you could in some states/counties distill your very own alcohol with the right paperwork and kit.

Answer 5

Check it out...Take a whole bottle of rubbing alcohol and a loaf of bread. Set up the loaf of bread over a container with a coffee filter on the bottom. Pour contents of rubbing alcohol through the top of the loaf of bread and it will pass through every slice and finally the coffee filter. This will give you pure grain alcohol.

Answer 6

Home distilling? Now there's a good idea.