Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/01/05
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Public TV had a show on a couple of months ago which showed some mountain
folk building a still, and sharing it with some of their friends.
It was pretty informative if you're a do it your self kind of person :)
> From: lists at mcclary.net
> Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2011 14:22:00 -0600
> To: lug at leica-users.org
> Subject: Re: [Leica] What REAL MEN drink!
>
> Pretty common stuff here in Tennessee. But you really need to be sure
> those who made it used a proper still, I've heard of some who use car
> radiators in place of copper cooling coils. Car radiator cooled shine is
> deadly stuff.
>
>
>
> Harrison McClary
>
>
> On Jan 5, 2011, at 12:46 PM, Tina Manley <images at comporium.net> wrote:
>
> > I've got some of that at the farm but it's in a real mason jar with no
> > label. One of the contractors brought it down from the mountains. We
> > haven't tried it yet.
> >
> > TIna
> >
> > On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 12:46 PM, Lawrence Zeitlin <lrzeitlin at
> > gmail.com>wrote:
> >
> >> Why waste your time and money on smokey, soap flavored whisky from
> >> Scotland!
> >> Moonshine is what REAL MEN drink. This Hudson Valley 100% corn whiskey
> >> harkens back to an earlier time before Prohibition when there were over
> >> 1200
> >> farm distilleries in New York State. Before the canals and the
> >> railroads,
> >> farmers hauled their corn crop to the local distiller. The whiskey
> >> fetched
> >> a
> >> far higher price than the raw corn and was much easier to ship.
> >> Tuthilltown
> >> whiskey is made with 100% New York legacy corn in the first legal
> >> distillery
> >> to open in the state in 70 years. It is bottled at a mind numbing 92
> >> proof
> >> and is guaranteed to be slow aged at least 24 hours. The Tuthilltown
> >> Gristmill is a National Historic site so you can experience history
> >> while
> >> you sip this ambrosia.
> >>
> >> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Larry+Z/New+York+Corn+Whiskey.jpg.html
> >>
> >>
> >> Larry Z
> >>
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> >
> > --
> > Tina Manley, ASMP
> > www.tinamanley.com
> >
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