I remember these and how much my folks enjoyed watching them. I don't recall my dad ever drinking Jax beer; it was probably too expensive for him to drink on a regular basis, anyway. I do remember him buying Berghoff or Schlitz at .99 cents/six pack.
I also remember the summer my dad decided he could save money by brewing his own beer. We kids would walk along the ditches by the road to pick up cast off beer bottles. Pop would bring them home, sterilize them and fill them up with his home brew. I liked my job: capping the bottles with a drill-press type contraption.
He had some success with it, I suppose, because we have some home movies with him drinking his concoction, the foam spewing from the bottle after opening. His failures are also in my memory...him storing his beer in our cellar and being woke up in the middle of the night by bottles exploding from the pressure, sounding just like a muffled gunshot.
April 22, 2009
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I have always had that idea in the back of my head to try out and brew some of my own booze , well nothing on a large scale of course , especially now G told me its illegal here , well I didn't plan of setting up some huge Moonshine still or anything in the back shed , I just somehow thought they sold these little wine /beer making packs from some of the larger stores that I seem to remember back in the UK years ago.
I went to Wiki and it made interesting reading telling of the different methods and equipment used , oh some of them were letting lethal toxins into the brew, ( automotive raiators ) was mentioned ! yikes Glycol , Methanol and lead poisoning I dont want , but then they do mention a few crude tests to see if the brew is proofed , just have to have a supply of gunpowder to mix with the Moonshine and see if it ignites or not ; )
Wish I could produce some of my own Ouzo as its getting to be costly buying it from the Local store here nearly triple the price of a bottle back in Cyprus , mmmm A pack of Alcotec and a Brita filter and im set, oh and I just need to clear the garden shed and send G out to collect some bottles for me .
There might be local or state laws that prohibit it, but I'm fairly certain federal law says you can brew up to 200 gallons of beer (perhaps wine, too, I think) a year.
My postman brewed his own and told me after he retired he was thinking of opening up a small brewmaster's store. He brought me a bottle of his stuff and it was great.
(I can't drink much beer or I might brew my own. I don't LOVE it, but enjoy one now 'n then.)
Hard liquor...pretty sure that's still illegal, although you're certainly living in an area that has a long history of "moonshine".
I'm a (small "L") libertarian, so I think people should be allowed to do pretty much whatever they like on their own property. On the other hand, stills aren't exactly a "safe" thing to run.
Never been a fan of Ouzo, but it's an acquired taste. I've never liked the licorice taste.
Part of the cost is an import fee, but the largest part are state and federal taxes. There is more federal tax (percentage-wise) on a six pack of beer than there is on a diamond ring.
There was a little old lady who used to live behind me; I did several things for her...mowed, lit her heater, etc. and one day she came over and brought me some home-made wine, made from grape jelly. It was overly sweet, but didn't taste like wine but instead was more like grape juice....but after the second glass, I was reeling!
I've always been a cheap drunk, though.
The statue of limitations is way past, so I'll admit that pop also made some hard liquor. He was friends with a chemist and the guy got the hardware from where he worked and he and dad put the still down in the cellar. I think I've got the bottom half of the "pot" somewhere around here.
Of course, dad was terrified that he'd be caught and admonished me to not tell anyone about it. The Feds take a dim view of making your own booze...not because of it being illegal, but that you're not paying tax on it, that's the main thing.
I can still remember how the cellar smelled after those beer bottles exploded. It wasn't anything like store bought beer, that's for sure!
Yup, was a little "yeasty", huh?
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