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I thought it wasn't illegal to make it but to sell it without giving the feds their cut??

3 posted on 12/12/2006 7:02:52 AM PST by Lx (Do you like it, do you like it. Scott? I call it Mr. and Mrs. Tennerman chili.)

Yeah. Especially if it's for the gas tank. Avoid those fuel taxes.

14 posted on 12/12/2006 7:13:32 AM PST by jwalburg (It wasn't the Executive that Thomas Jefferson referred to as "the Despotic Branch.")

"I thought it wasn't illegal to make it but to sell it without giving the feds their cut??"

It's a protection racket and the Dons in Washington want their cut.

17 posted on 12/12/2006 7:14:10 AM PST by dljordan

"I thought it wasn't illegal to make it but to sell it without giving the feds their cut??"

No there is a several gallon limit.

38 posted on 12/12/2006 7:47:57 AM PST by MeanWestTexan (Kol Hakavod Lezahal)

Ok, here's how it works.

You are allowed to BREW up to 200 gallons per year per household.

Brewing means adding yeast to sugarwater and letting it ferment. Basic brew. If you use designer yeast, you might possibly get 20 ethanol.

That is legal.

Now, if you attempt to separate the water from the alcohol in that brew, you will be arrested.

It isn't the equipment you use, (yes, the fedgov does confiscate stills) but it is the PROCESS of separating the water from the alcohol that is really, really bad.

Put a can of beer in the freezer, you are using a process called "jacking", which is illegal.

The operation to create hard liquor starts with brew, or mash or whatever. Then it goes to the separation phase. You begin the process of removing the water from your brew. The most efficient way to do this is to add heat via a distiller.

You need a license from the fedgov to do this.

40 posted on 12/12/2006 7:49:24 AM PST by Al Gator (Refusing to "stoop to your enemy's level", gets you cut off at the knees.)

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