Tim Campbell
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Nice, Rick. That Bookers is probably my all-time favorite.It's a rabbit-hole from which there is no escape...trust me on this...
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Bourbon Day 6/14/25
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Rick P
TVWBB Pro
Yeah...I like it too!
Tim Campbell
TVWBB Diamond Member
Really sweet collection there. I love that scale, too.
IIRC, it depends on state...... and for human consumption, you still need to pay the stamp tax, along with all of the paperwork. Now, small engine fuel......
There are a lot of the small home all-electric breweries that have distillation caps available. YMMV.
DanHoo
TVWBB Olympian
While individuals of legal drinking age may produce wine or beer at home for personal or family use, Federal law strictly prohibits individuals from producing distilled spirits at home
LMichaels
TVWBB 2-Star Olympian
I've had this one. Yes, a very nice bourbon
LMichaels
TVWBB 2-Star Olympian
We used to distill our own grappa. I still have childhood memories of after Sunday mass dad and I going to grandpa's house. Funny aromas coming from a hidden area under the rear porch adjacent to the basement. Run down there to see grandpa, and he's go a couple garden hoses going. One from the faucet on the laundry tub going to a large tub with copper coils in it, the other hooked to a gas pipe overhead running to a large double gas burner made of cast iron, under a huge "pot" with copper tubing on top. Clear liquid magically coming out from the end after being chilled by the cold water. "Grandpa what ya doing?" "I make-a the soup-a" Well after marveling at this contraption and being so darn hungry I could eat anything even early in the morning soup sounded darn good to me (you have to have understood 2 things at this point Italian culture and Catholic doctrine pre-1963 or 64). Suffice to say dad had dragged me to early mass with him, early (usually 7 am mass), and was always customary to visit family after mass for a little coffee, a shot or two of grappa, and a bite to eat. "Grandpa I'm hungry I want some soup!" After I pestered him enough of why can't I taste the soup like him and my dad, he'd kinda snap at me and say "Hey I hear your gramma she call-a you". Run upstairs. "gramma what to you need?" "I no calla you" "Grandpa says you did" "Oh yeah you wanna some a pershoot?" Magic words to a little guy who'd had to endure being gotten up early in the AM, dragged to mass (in Latin no less), no water no food. You better believe some nice crusty bread and prosciutto went down REALLY good!Maybe Darryl needs to make a still for some homemade spirits.
My uncle and then my dad carried on that tradition of cooking the leftover wine into grappa every couple years. IIRC my oldest daughter now has the still. Which by now is likely near 100 YO
Darryl - swazies
TVWBB Diamond Member
No....being shipped a box of the good stuff would go over alright.
Now if I tried to go about selling it off to make a large profit then there could and would be serious consequences.
So I can't do that but I could import a box of a dozen bottles for personal use....
Darryl - swazies
TVWBB Diamond Member
I looked into it......there is a major learning curve of course.Maybe Darryl needs to make a still for some homemade spirits.
And you can make your own or you can buy a whole system already ready to go for about $500 up to a ton more.......it would be paid off in record time.
Now it is not illegal to own a still....and you can make essential oils n stuff like that with a still but producing alcohol is frowned upon heavily....
Apparently they don't really bug you about it but if you start selling it and or if some teenagers and stuff get there hands on it, it then becomes a really bad situation......
Darryl - swazies
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DuaneMac
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Just picked up Larceny today. It was $27, thought I’d give it a try.Enjoying a Larceny right now. After the day I've had (much accomplished but lots of work) I DESERVE the Larceny big time!
LMichaels
TVWBB 2-Star Olympian
We're gonna have to take up a collection for you and ship you a case of nice asstd bourbons
Darryl - swazies
TVWBB Diamond Member
Well if it comes to that point I won’t complain and even pay for it…..We're gonna have to take up a collection for you and ship you a case of nice asstd bourbons
Just make sure the box is marked as a gift and we should be good….
Bourbon is amazing…Canadian whiskey isn’t even close……
Anyone participating I encourage you to go buy a Canadian whiskey….like go get a bottle of say Crown Royal….
We will talk after that…….
DanHoo
TVWBB Olympian
percent agree.A friend who was a bartender for many years calls Canadian whiskey "Brown Vodka"
LMichaels
TVWBB 2-Star Olympian
Yeah, I've always found Canadian "OK but MEH" not a lot of character. Not always a bad thing if you are making a mixed drink where you don't want the whiskey's character to take it over but I'm honestly not a mixed drink guy except for a good WI Old Fashioned. There is something there that's just darn pleasant
Rick P
TVWBB Pro
If you can find the 1792 bottled-in-bond, (it's a little pricier...in the $60.00 range), buy it. I've had pretty much every iteration of the 1792, (even visited the distillery in 2017), and it's my favorite. Most 1792 drinks hot to me, but not the bottled in bond...