"Guv Bob" wrote in message
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Anyone ever seen one of these working up in the hills? I've seen plenty of
busted up ones in years past but none in many years. Never saw one
working -- probably a good thing too or I probably wouldn't be here now.
LOL! Some of them are pretty ingenious.

I've been looking at lab equipment to distill
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Chemistry-La...em27c987 9c4e

They have water cooled condensers, some have other holes in the boiler so
you can add while in process, seems you could keep them going almost
continuous for batches for larger batches. My interest is trying to make
nitric acid from sulfuric acid and potassium nitrate, but it should work for
alcohol if you put in a liquid containing alcohol.

My dad used to have a woodcraft shop in Kentucky, there was a guy there that
had moonshine for sale that his family makes, would have been interesting to
see the operation.

I don't know how to make the mash, never looked it up, but I don't think I'd
have any problem extracting the alcohol using a still, I looked up some info
on the process when gas was high and corn was cheap. There are columns for
the lab stills that let you get out something like 96% alcohol from the
still then you can take out the remaining water using a molecular sieve, it
absorbs water out of alcohol and can be dried out and reused.

RogerN