Hey y'all I've been drinking shine for a while now and been around it my whole life. The whole thing just amazes me and I'm going to make my first run and try it out. I would appreciate any help, tips or recipes y'all could help me out with! I like just good ole straight corn moonshine. I have a little 16 oz stock pot set up ran with copper pipe to a 5 gallon bucket full of ice with the copper coiled in the bucket. Nothing big just a starter set up. Similar to the picture I attached. I'm from Tennessee born and raised in the south and I have a lot of respect for moonshine and my fellow shiners!! [ATTACH=CONFIG]560[/ATTACH]

You been in Tenn your whole life and around shine forever...........you should have some pretty good recipes for US.

Yuuuuppp, Thanks for the help brother -__- Just because I live somewhere and been drinking something for a long time does not mean I know they will tell me their "secrets" on how to make the best product. I know the basics on how to make shine, just wanted to see if I could get some tips on how to make it better and improve my knowlage. But thanks man really, you're comment helped me alot.

tell us about your boiler setup please

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Okay it's very similar to the one in the picture up top. It's a 16 oz. SS Stock pot with SS lid I use water and flower for the paste to seal it all off. I put it on a grill or stove top, just depends on how I'm feeling that day. I have 10' of 3/4"" copper pipe running from the boiler to a 5 gallon bucket full of ice and the pipe is bent like a coil through the bucket to the bottom where it comes through to drip into my jar. I have a temperature gauge on the top of boiler also. that's it just something basic and small. Any suggestions?

I don't want to put any real money into it right yet. at least not until I learn a little more about the whole thing. Thanks!"

Looks good just make sure your seal is tight and yor coil falls down the whole time.. If those two are done then your setup is fine for now. And the recipe section here has some basic easy to make shine. Good luck

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Haha arrrighty man thanks it looks good I'm gonna try it out and make adjustments if I need to...I'll tamper with it and see how it goes thanks! and I know man I'm looking into buying a still but probably won't happen for a while. Also I know you can use an alcoholmeter to tell percentage and proof but you got any other suggestions?"

Howdy SippinDayley,
I'm a Tennessee essential extractor too. I'e been at it now for a couple of months and i've made four runs. I use a PS II in reflux and pot mode. For me my first couple of runs were plain ole sugar water (vodka or a neutral spirit) running the still in reflux mode. It made for some high proof hooch like 180 to 190. Of course that is before taming to drinking proof. To me personally sugar water was the easiest to make and since it was my first run i didnt have a whole lot of $ in it. my third run was corn meal using turbo yeast. to me and my taste it didn't turn out quite the way i wanted it to so I scratched that recipe. I ran my first UJSM (thanks Jessie) this past weekend using my still in pot mode (for flavor) and to me and my taste it was the best damn run of likker i ever ran. I started my second generation UJSM that evening and it's fermenting away now. Now don't get to carried away... the yield probably isn't what you think. Let me explain, I ran UJSM using pot mode and I got about a quart and quarter of good drinkin spirits. So the yield isn't very high. In reflux I can maybe get three quarts per 5 gallon wash. with that being said it takes me about 5.5 to 6 hours to run this still to get a good result so be patient with it. best of luck to ya fella tennesseean!