The Home Distillers' Guide
By Jim O’Brien
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The complete guide for a beginner. Learn how to make your own brew at home!
Everything you need to know to ferment and distill right the first time. Home distillation isn't for everyone. It's for you! While some homebrewers are happy enough with beer or wine, others want to take it a step further, by distilling those grain and fruit mashes and concentrating their alcohol into true spirits worthy of any bar. This is the home distillers guide for them. Go join!
This book on making moonshine and how to distill alcohol is not just another one of distilling books. - "I enjoyed this book as my best book on the subject. I have no real experience but have been researching home distilling through multiple books. If you are in that category yet, this is the book for you ..." - Martin C. Williams
Is covering nearly every facet of distilling
- The Basic Principles of Distillation
- The Distilling Process and Techniques
- Distilling Equipment and Raw Materials
- The difference between spirit types and how to produce each
- Legalities surrounding distilling alcohol at home
- Flavoring and aging your spirits
- Different methods of distillation and equipment
- And of course, drink recipes!
Learn how to make your own moonshine, vodka, whiskey, rum, tequila, bourbon. Get home distilling recipes with latest Distillers book by Jim O'Brien
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The Home Distillers' Guide - Jim O’Brien
Raise the Bar:
The Home Distiller’s
Guide
and
DIY Bartender:
Cocktails for the Homemade Mixologist
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For most of you, this is my first book. I hope in this book you can find the answers to your questions and receive some advice. All of this based on the author's personal experience and every sentence in this book is important. It's a book that contains a very few terms. It can be easily understood by anybody.
Thank you, dear readers,
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Sincerely yours, Jim O’Brien
Table of Contents
Introduction. Why Home Distillation?
Should I Try Home Distillation?
Making Liquor at Home...Legally
The U.S. States and Territories that Allow Home Distillation
Chapter 1. The Basic Principles of Distillation
Types of Distillation
Simple Distillation in Detail
Chapter 2. Overview of the Distilling Process and Techniques
What Happens Inside a Still?
Distilling: an Overview of the Process
Chapter 3. Distilling Equipment and Raw Materials
What You’ll Need for Mashes and Washes
For Your Still
Chapter 4. Your Still: Premade, Halfway, or from Scratch?
Building Your Own Still4
That’s It! Now, How Do You Use it?
I Already Got the Wash, Now What?
Chapter 5. Make Room for Moonshine
Is the Stuff at the Store Really Moonshine?
Moonshine’s Start
How Moonshine Is Made
Basic Corn Mash Recipe7
Sugar Mash
Recipe8
Flavored Moonshines
Apple Pie Moonshine Recipe
Chapter 6. Viva la Vodka
A Brief History
Basic Vodka Wash Recipes
Potato Vodka10
Sugar Vodka11
Making Your Own Flavored Vodkas
Chapter 7. Yo, Ho, Ho and a Bottle of Rum
Humble Beginnings
Basic Rum Wash Recipe13
Aging Your Distilled Rum
Flavoring Your Rum
Chapter 8. Of All the Gin Joints in All the Towns
Making Gin
Basic Gin Recipe15
Other Flavors
Chapter 9. Where’s the Whiskey?
The Origin of Whiskey
Aging: What Turns Young Moonshine into Old Whiskey
Regional Whiskeys
Types of Whiskey
Whiskey Corn Wash Recipe18
Chapter 10. Tequila Time
The Painstaking Production of Tequila
Types of Tequila
Basic Tequila
Recipe21
Chapter 11. Brandy, Liqueurs, and Other Excuses to Spend More Time in the Still House
Brandy
Sunchoke Spirit
Brandy Recipe
Aging Your Distillation
Liqueurs
Peach Schnapps (American) Recipe24
Other Uses For Your Distillation Skills
The Farm Distillery
Chapter 12. Mixers and Bitters
Make Your Own Bitters26
Cocktails to Try
Chapter 13. Advanced Distillation
Chapter 14. Some Notes on Bottling, Preservation, and Storage
Chapter 15. Can I Sell It?
The Case for Making Non-commercial Distilling Legal
What You CAN Do (Legally)
Conclusion. Cheers! The Future Of True Craft Distilling
DIY BARTENDER:
Chapter 1. Moonshine
Full Blue Moon
Peachy Keen Lemonade
Shamrock Shock
Moonshine Mimosa
Lemon Drop Shine Shooter
Chapter 2. Vodka
Classic Cosmo
Moscow Mule
Sex on the Beach
Sweet Vodka Spritzer
Dirty Shirley
Chapter 3. Whiskey and Bourbon
Whiskey Sour
Old Fashioned
Mint Julep
Tennessee Lemonade
Chapter 4. Tequila
Mintequila Brew
Ginger Shooter
Blackberry Slammer
Tequila Summer Slush
Chapter 5. Brandy
Hard Iced Cider
Hot Toddy for One
Vanilla Roobios Hard Tea
Dirty Mother
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
THANK YOU AGAIN FOR PURCHASING THIS BOOK!