A recipe for hootch? (bimber?)

childwithinThreads: 15 Posts: 220 Joined: Nov 18, 08 ♂	Edited by: childwithin Feb 16, 10, 10:54 #1
does anyone knows how to do it properly? my stepfather used to make it and kept getting me drunk with it (not always knowing that), it was made from potatoes. any recipes and tools you might need? does it create a smell, will they call a police if i make it in my basement?

tomaszmojsiejukThreads: - Posts: 11 Joined: Feb 14, 10 ♂	Feb 16, 10, 11:09 #2
i think you make it from sugar and you need to boil it or somthing then use one of the distillers

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Edited by: polkamaniac Feb 16, 10, 14:26 #3

Distillation is not that difficult. You can do it very safely using refrigeration, relying on the fact that alcohol freezes at a much lower temperature than water. Freeze distillation also retains much more of the fermentation characteristics of the original drink than fractional distillation. It's just illegal, so don't talk indiscriminately about it. It's difficult to produce anything stronger than 25 or 30% alcohol using freeze distillation, but it's a favorite method because it requires less aging and retains many of the flavor components that are lost in fractional distilling
Distillation can be done fairly easily with a pressure cooker and some copper tubing (running off the cooker and through an ice bath). the product that comes out is raw and needs to be aged a few months or a few years, to develop some complexity. Age it in good wood to add that complexity. You can buy seasoned casks from wineries and distilleries without too much problem.

childwithinThreads: 15 Posts: 220 Joined: Nov 18, 08 ♂	Feb 16, 10, 15:12 #4
polkamaniac: Distillation can be done fairly easily with a pressure cooker and some copper tubing (running off the cooker and through an ice bath i have difficulties understanding what those terms mean...i'm sorry polkamaniac: needs to be aged a few months or a few years i was thinking something simple, that can be done easily within one month or so

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Edited by: polkamaniac Feb 16, 10, 16:20 #5

It's easy-you need sugar-or potatoes or whatever--yeast--water---then let it ferment-distill ---and VOILA!!!!!!!!!!you made hooch

Make These Types of Hooch And Moore!
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•FLAVORED VODKA
•RUM
•FLAVORED RUM
•SPICED RUM
•GIN
•BRANDIES
•COGNACS
•WHISKEYS
•APPLE WHISKEY
•FLAVORED WHISKEY
•BOURBONS
•TEQUILAS
•FLAVORED TEQUILAS
•LIQUORS
•FLAVORED LIQUORS

childwithinThreads: 15 Posts: 220 Joined: Nov 18, 08 ♂	Edited by: childwithin Feb 16, 10, 16:26 #6
polkamaniac: It's easy-you need sugar-or potatoes or whatever--yeast--water---then let it ferment-distill do i need two pounds or pieces of yeast? you could explain or translate what a pressure cooker and ice bath is as well the whole distillation process could you explain it to me? thanks in advance

polkamaniacThreads: 1 Posts: 514 Joined: Aug 2, 09 ♂	Feb 16, 10, 16:40 #7
I am not going into details.Here it is illegal to make the stuff and the recepies are usually made by word of mouth.Usually it's the europeans that make the stuff and have brought their recepies from their country of origin.

childwithinThreads: 15 Posts: 220 Joined: Nov 18, 08 ♂	Edited by: childwithin Feb 16, 10, 16:46 #8
polkamaniac: it is illegal to make the stuff why do bother answering then? i cold google it too, but was hoping someone friendly will explain it to me, still thanks for your help anyway, i guess that should do btw is it illegal to be racist for example? so much racism and insult going on here...what i'm asking is advice, not asking you to make it for me

TrevekThreads: 33 Posts: 2,155 Joined: May 21, 08 ♂	Feb 16, 10, 17:08 #9
a pressure cooker is a kind of pressurised pan which allows boiling at a quicker rate (used for cooking potatoes) and gives off steam.

childwithinThreads: 15 Posts: 220 Joined: Nov 18, 08 ♂	Feb 16, 10, 17:13 #10
Trevek: a pressure cooker is a kind of pressurised pan which allows boiling at a quicker rate (used for cooking potatoes) and gives off steam think i get it thanks a lot

polkamaniacThreads: 1 Posts: 514 Joined: Aug 2, 09 ♂	Feb 16, 10, 17:13 #11
If you blow up the picture on the right,it gives you the ingredients--the amounts and the still and how much it will make.I also said any fruit or vegetable can be used to ferment that's how you can get the variety of alcoholic drinks.The first item you will need is a still.Good luck-----Most people that make this, make their own "still".

childwithinThreads: 15 Posts: 220 Joined: Nov 18, 08 ♂	Feb 16, 10, 17:22 #12
polkamaniac: Most people that make this, make their own "still hmm, that makes things bit more difficult, my technical sense is not that good polkamaniac: Good luck ufff...thanks

bimber94Threads: 9 Posts: 400 Joined: Mar 13, 09 ♂	Mar 9, 10, 11:50 #13
Famously, there's "bimber" proportions known as 'Bitwa Grunwaldska', after the Battle of Grunwald in 1410. It's 1L of water, 400gr of sugar and 10gr of yeast, totalling the year of 1410.

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