Moonshine Maker Describes His Hooch Machine

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Tuesday, September 14th, 2010


“Hooch Machine” sounds filthy, and really, it kind of is. Making your own liquor looks to be as dirty and hacked-together a process as anything I’ve seen. I cracked up at this part:

The boiler is a 20L stainless steel milk pail. Got it on eBay. I had a metal shop cut a hole into the lid and asked them to weld a threaded coupling to the opening. I told them I was building a robot.

Get the whole story over at BoingBoing. Good readin’.

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