Homemade White Lightning - The Firearms Forum

berrde · 04-20-2010, 01:44 PM

Hi,
Anyone have a recipe and method to make homemade white lighting, I don't want to go blind or anything just a good source for a good drink once in awhile.
Thanks

USMCSpeedy · 04-20-2010, 03:44 PM

With some of the people I've met that make shine, you'd have an easier time takin away their guns (and that would be very tough) than gettin their recipie.

Airdale · 04-20-2010, 04:48 PM

Gotta have a still first. These guys look like they could get you started.

http://stilldrinkin.com/Turbo%20Stills.htm

navis128 · 04-20-2010, 06:05 PM

Gotta luv those sailors!

When it comes to drinkin', they can always help you out...

wpage · 04-20-2010, 07:04 PM

Those are some expensive metal shop projects...

jacksonco · 04-20-2010, 07:12 PM

Do remember how the cartoons always pictured a jug with X's marked on them? Those X's have a purpose. It shows how many times the liquid was passed through the still. One X is what is called Mountain Dew. Two XX is the second pass and that is Moon Shine, Three XXX on the jug is called White Lightning.

Mountain Dew has the lowest alcohol content at around 20 % (40 proof)
Moonshine will light you up at around 50% (100 proof)
White Lightnin is right near around 98% (196 proof)

So the more X's they got on them jugs the more stupid you will get drinking it LOL

Insulation Tim · 04-21-2010, 06:44 AM

I always thought that making your own alcohol, with the exception of beer and wine, is highly illegal. Have the laws changed. I'd hate to order one of those stills and have it delivered by BATF.

jacksonco · 04-21-2010, 07:18 AM

It is not illegal to make moonshine if it for peronal use. If you sell it you would be breaking the law. At least that is my understanding. I think that is the federal law. I don't know if individual states have their own laws or not.

PPK 32 · 04-21-2010, 09:55 AM

Mountain Dew has the lowest alcohol content at around 20 % (40 proof)
Moonshine will light you up at around 50% (100 proof)
White Lightnin is right near around 98% (196 proof)

So the more X's they got on them jugs the more stupid you will get drinking it LOL

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Provided you can actually drink the stuff. Tried the triple X once, that was enough for me!!

Big ugly · 04-21-2010, 11:01 AM

Now I have consumed enough Home grown whiskey to float a river barge, I even know how to make it. But as far as giving up ones recipe for good ole white lightning I believe the best awnser to that is. YOUR CHEESE SLID OF YOUR CRACKER MAN! As stated here you need to make a "still" and then kinda of explore from there. My advise to you though is a nice mixture of corn and taters with a bit of honey. But I will not go into any more detail then that. If I do variouse members of my family will see fit to forfit my life expectacncy past gettin old.

22dave · 04-21-2010, 11:25 AM

Easy. Get copper coil & plumbing fittings from Home Depot. Get 5 gallon SS pot from a kitchen store. Cut a big hole in the lid and use a copper mixing bowl for the dome. Silver solder/pop rivet/silicone the whole thing together. Use a propane turkey fryer style burner for heat.

Distill cheap wine, a gallon or 2 at a time. Proof it by putting some in a metal spoon, heat it and light it. The first run will burn but not well. Collect & distill it 3x for 190 proof. Cut this to 140 with simple sugar (water with sugar mixed in to saturation). Cut it by measuring the 190 volume and using math to get the amount of simple sugar to add.

Clamp the lid of the pot with a rubber gasket and a bunch of cheap vise grip pliers. Chill the coil by running it thru a ice bucket.

Be careful and make sure you have beer to drink while you are cooking. Don't tell everybody about this, it may be illegal. Don't sell it.

Maximilian II · 04-22-2010, 09:12 PM

From my own and my friends' homebrewing experience, the last I heard ANY distillation of alcohol is forbidden.
That said, I don't think you'd have a problem if you just made it for your own use. After all, who'd know? Small still, small batches. Very hard to find, if nobody's looking for it.

CampingJosh · 04-22-2010, 10:27 PM

You can make the stuff for yourself; you just have to pay taxes on it.

Not that a federal tax on intrastate non-commerce is constitutional... but it is a fact.

Big ugly · 04-23-2010, 01:34 AM

here in Tennessee I believe oyu can make for personal consumption but it has to be in small amounts. The home made wine my grand pa makes even makes its way to the local police department curtesey of the neighbors son. I believe he took two gallons of gramps hands last year and is lookin to take three or four this fall.

pawn · 04-24-2010, 04:32 PM

Popcorn Sutton never paid them taxes......

jondar · 04-26-2010, 11:59 AM

A few years back I was friends with an old coal miner from Harlan County, Kentucky. He had the black lung bad and made a trip back to Kentucky to see his relatives one more time. He brought me back some in an old pint fruit jar, rubber ring and all, and it sure had a great flavor, never tasted anything quite like it, something like green corn. I kept it in a kitchen cabinet down on the bottom shelf. My ten year old daughter thought it was paint cleaner and cleaned her paint brushes in it. Didn't taste so good after that.

04-20-2010, 01:44 PM	#1
berrde Member Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: northcentral, pa Posts: 35	Homemade White Lightning Hi, Anyone have a recipe and method to make homemade white lighting, I don't want to go blind or anything just a good source for a good drink once in awhile. Thanks -->

04-20-2010, 03:44 PM	#2
USMCSpeedy Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Minnesota Posts: 631	Re: Homemade White Lightning With some of the people I've met that make shine, you'd have an easier time takin away their guns (and that would be very tough) than gettin their recipie. __________________ If all else fails, VOTE FROM THE ROOFTOPS Trying to reform a liberal is like trying to pick up a turd from the clean end. What this country needs is more family trees that will produce more lumber and fewer nuts!

04-20-2010, 04:48 PM	#3
Airdale Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: N.W. Arkansas Contributor Posts: 761	Re: Homemade White Lightning Gotta have a still first. These guys look like they could get you started. http://stilldrinkin.com/Turbo%20Stills.htm __________________ "The Utopian schemes of leveling [redistribution of the wealth] and a community of goods [central ownership of the means of production and distribution], are as visionary and impractical as those which vest all property in the crown.[These ideas] are arbitrary, despotic, and, in our government, unconstitutional." Samuel Adams

04-20-2010, 06:05 PM	#4
navis128 Advanced Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Texas Posts: 1,392	Re: Homemade White Lightning Gotta luv those sailors! When it comes to drinkin', they can always help you out... __________________ A British general reported to London that the rebels, though untrained, had earned his respect: "Whoever looks upon them as an irregular mob will find himself much mistaken." "But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security." The Declaration of Independence

04-20-2010, 07:04 PM	#5
wpage Advanced Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2009 Posts: 1,471	Re: Homemade White Lightning Those are some expensive metal shop projects... __________________ "You shall recieve power" Acts 1:8 W

04-20-2010, 07:12 PM	#6
jacksonco Advanced Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Jackson County West Virginia Posts: 2,237	Re: Homemade White Lightning Do remember how the cartoons always pictured a jug with X's marked on them? Those X's have a purpose. It shows how many times the liquid was passed through the still. One X is what is called Mountain Dew. Two XX is the second pass and that is Moon Shine, Three XXX on the jug is called White Lightning. Mountain Dew has the lowest alcohol content at around 20 % (40 proof) Moonshine will light you up at around 50% (100 proof) White Lightnin is right near around 98% (196 proof) So the more X's they got on them jugs the more stupid you will get drinking it LOL

04-21-2010, 06:44 AM	#7
Insulation Tim Advanced Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: Ohio Contributor Posts: 2,316	Re: Homemade White Lightning I always thought that making your own alcohol, with the exception of beer and wine, is highly illegal. Have the laws changed. I'd hate to order one of those stills and have it delivered by BATF. __________________ Tim *"Remember the Ark was built by amateurs....Professionals built the Titanic"*

04-21-2010, 07:18 AM	#8
jacksonco Advanced Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Jackson County West Virginia Posts: 2,237	Re: Homemade White Lightning It is not illegal to make moonshine if it for peronal use. If you sell it you would be breaking the law. At least that is my understanding. I think that is the federal law. I don't know if individual states have their own laws or not.

04-21-2010, 09:55 AM	#9
PPK 32 Advanced Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Frickin, Illinois Posts: 1,170	Re: Homemade White Lightning Mountain Dew has the lowest alcohol content at around 20 % (40 proof) Moonshine will light you up at around 50% (100 proof) White Lightnin is right near around 98% (196 proof) So the more X's they got on them jugs the more stupid you will get drinking it LOL [/QUOTE] Provided you can actually drink the stuff. Tried the triple X once, that was enough for me!! __________________ -Every road leads to a town, every town has a tavern, therefore you are never really lost. -If you are gonna be stupid, you'd better be tough. Jim Parrish

04-21-2010, 11:01 AM	#10
Big ugly Advanced Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Knoxville Tennessee Contributor Posts: 2,603	Re: Homemade White Lightning Now I have consumed enough Home grown whiskey to float a river barge, I even know how to make it. But as far as giving up ones recipe for good ole white lightning I believe the best awnser to that is. YOUR CHEESE SLID OF YOUR CRACKER MAN! As stated here you need to make a "still" and then kinda of explore from there. My advise to you though is a nice mixture of corn and taters with a bit of honey. But I will not go into any more detail then that. If I do variouse members of my family will see fit to forfit my life expectacncy past gettin old. __________________ "You say the Devil made do it with a smile. Raisin' hell and howlin at the moon. Well I'm gonna put your @$$ back in line. I'm gonna scare the Devil out of you." BlackBerry Smoke Song http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R513dA4peMg Nothing is "proof" against a truly talented fool. Swanshot

04-21-2010, 11:25 AM	#11
22dave V.I.P. Member Join Date: Mar 2008 Posts: 126	Re: Homemade White Lightning Easy. Get copper coil & plumbing fittings from Home Depot. Get 5 gallon SS pot from a kitchen store. Cut a big hole in the lid and use a copper mixing bowl for the dome. Silver solder/pop rivet/silicone the whole thing together. Use a propane turkey fryer style burner for heat. Distill cheap wine, a gallon or 2 at a time. Proof it by putting some in a metal spoon, heat it and light it. The first run will burn but not well. Collect & distill it 3x for 190 proof. Cut this to 140 with simple sugar (water with sugar mixed in to saturation). Cut it by measuring the 190 volume and using math to get the amount of simple sugar to add. Clamp the lid of the pot with a rubber gasket and a bunch of cheap vise grip pliers. Chill the coil by running it thru a ice bucket. Be careful and make sure you have beer to drink while you are cooking. Don't tell everybody about this, it may be illegal. Don't sell it.

04-22-2010, 09:12 PM	#12
Maximilian II Advanced Senior Member Join Date: May 2009 Location: Northwest GA Posts: 1,385	Re: Homemade White Lightning From my own and my friends' homebrewing experience, the last I heard ANY distillation of alcohol is forbidden. That said, I don't think you'd have a problem if you just made it for your own use. After all, who'd know? Small still, small batches. Very hard to find, if nobody's looking for it. __________________ Karma is just justice, without the satisfaction. And I don't believe in justice. -Joe Sarno, bagman.

04-22-2010, 10:27 PM	#13
CampingJosh TFF Moderator/Host Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Indiana Contributor Posts: 4,799	Re: Homemade White Lightning You can make the stuff for yourself; you just have to pay taxes on it. Not that a federal tax on intrastate non-commerce is constitutional... but it is a fact. __________________ Nothing posted on TheFirearmsForum.com constitutes legal, accounting, gunsmithing, or other professional advice. Readers are encouraged to consult with qualified professionals for real advice. Your life is lived at your own risk. Don't blame me for the dumb things you do.

04-23-2010, 01:34 AM	#14
Big ugly Advanced Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Knoxville Tennessee Contributor Posts: 2,603	Re: Homemade White Lightning here in Tennessee I believe oyu can make for personal consumption but it has to be in small amounts. The home made wine my grand pa makes even makes its way to the local police department curtesey of the neighbors son. I believe he took two gallons of gramps hands last year and is lookin to take three or four this fall. __________________ "You say the Devil made do it with a smile. Raisin' hell and howlin at the moon. Well I'm gonna put your @$$ back in line. I'm gonna scare the Devil out of you." BlackBerry Smoke Song http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R513dA4peMg Nothing is "proof" against a truly talented fool. Swanshot

04-24-2010, 04:32 PM	#15
pawn Advanced Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Crossville, TN Posts: 1,469	Re: Homemade White Lightning Popcorn Sutton never paid them taxes...... __________________ Take care when you get information. The truth is generally seen, rarely heard. -Balthasar Gracian

04-26-2010, 11:59 AM	#16
jondar V.I.P. Member Join Date: Mar 2009 Posts: 461	Re: Homemade White Lightning A few years back I was friends with an old coal miner from Harlan County, Kentucky. He had the black lung bad and made a trip back to Kentucky to see his relatives one more time. He brought me back some in an old pint fruit jar, rubber ring and all, and it sure had a great flavor, never tasted anything quite like it, something like green corn. I kept it in a kitchen cabinet down on the bottom shelf. My ten year old daughter thought it was paint cleaner and cleaned her paint brushes in it. Didn't taste so good after that.