White Lightning

#metoo

 

We got apple jack out here in these parts

 

I grew up shining... still got parts of old stills hangin around places... haven’t made shine in years though... stuffs amazing coming right out of a still before cutting it down.

 

That's where i pulled my name from.

Lairds applejack brandy, brewed in good ol' scobeyville. GW used to drink it and write about how goode it was..

from the web:
The seriously boozy spirit, called "cyder spirit," was so beloved that its recipe was requested by George Washington himself to supply the Revolutionary forces. Later, William’s grandson, Robert, who fought in the Revolutionary War, would open the Laird family's distillery, which was also the first commercial distillery in the country. After learning how to make the spirit, president-to-be George Washington even sold some of his own making.

 

Yeah it's pretty kick ass. My old lady grew up in the local orchards and her kin has worked them since the Grapes of Wrath Depression era.

I'm forever trying to score some but the old guys are real secretive lol

 

My Dad use to take us to SC to see family and come back with shine. He would shake the mason jar and say "look at the tiny bubbles, low specific gravity, better shine". He was an EE at CCAFS.

 

Oh man...I have a few grain stories.

When I was 7 or 8 years old, I was hanging around the camp fire with a bunch of old dudes (dad, uncles, friends etc). They were passing around the proverbial mason jar.

I remember how messed up they got and fast. So, one of my uncles friends (who was a complete jerk), grabbed me as I was walking by and held me over the fire. The smoke got in my eyes and I was screaming. When he finally put me down, I put my boot right into his shin. The only problem, I hear my dad cuss, I can't see and everyone falls all over the place laughing. I kicked my dad in the shin.

We still crack up to this day on that one.

 

Where you located lol

 

Strawberry....use the berries fo some boozy shortycake

 

sip it slowly

 

I thought this was a thread about Mick Fanning.
Anyway, my wife is from Albania. They make this stuff called Raki, which is like European white lightning.Its like 151 proof. One time I had some in a snapple bottle and my kid opened it and almost drank it. Wont make that mistake again.

 

My Mom and my aunts and uncles... all very Italian...
used to make Grappa. AKA Blue Lightning. Fermented grapes... Their cover was they were just making wine. I don't know how the could get it down to this purity, but it was 180 proof. My Pop's side of the family made a version of Apple Jack. We just found parts of the still last summer...
This answers a lot of questions about me...

(No Barry, Not the fetal alcohol syndrome. That is not why I'm a moron.)

 

Love me some good Mezcal.

 

My wife calls me White Lightning when we are.. oh wait wrong thread.

 

My largest still, Mother Leeds

 

That is beautiful