Posted on 04/21/2013 4:20:37 PM PDT by YankeeMagic
I have been experimenting with making my own apple pie "moonshine". I am using 190 proof Everclear..looking for advise or maybe a recipe.
“If you love your country, you gotta love moonshine” - Tickle
My son came up from Alabama not long ago and we made a potfull of this ‘apple pie’. He used a fifth of Everclear, a quart of apple juice, a quart of apple cider (non-alcohol), a cup of brown sugar, a cup of honey, three tablespoons of ground cinnamon, a half teaspoon ofnutmeg, all brought to a boil then removed from heat and poured into pint jars with a cinnamon stick in each and sealed. I opened one last week and found it to be too cinnamony, so I called him and he told me that was the first time he put a stick in the jars before sealing and that he will not be using the sticks in future batches. It really does taste like liquid apple pie! Drink it straight from the fridge or over the rocks ... tasty!
Your recipe is real close to ours only instead of the ground cinnamon we use the cinnamon sticks then remove before “bottling”.
Is that not what Mama Mags Bennett was drinking on Justified? Season two.
I think the little bit of nutmeg made the batch so good. I use a dash of nutmeg when I bake an apple pie. ... And I think there’s some ‘apple pie’ in the fridge right now! BBL
Tangent: get some Beak & Skiff vodka if you can - made from apples in my hometown. Delightful.
very interested in that!
BTW, I buy Newman’s Own Spaghetti sauce. It comes in glass jars with what I have found are reuseable lids. I remove the label before putting it in the dishwasher, then place the lid on loosely after eveything is washed nd dry. When you pour boiling water into the jars and over the lids then empty them before pouring in the ‘apple pie’, the jars seal up with a nice ‘pop’ as they cool. ... Ijust tasted an opened jar; it keeps real good! *smack*
Returning from the library and have discovered I had been under a misconception in that there are a number of hoops to jump through first to be 100% legal.
My bad.
Is that Sterno or jet fuel?
I live in a state where Everclear is forbidden.
Paul Newman?? Pretty brave admission. In before the Super FReepers start a dogpile.
Amazingly its available in our State Liqueur Stores.
I am using legal alcohol and not selling it..
Hey, Sockarooni is the best on the market.
It isn’t legal in Minnesota. The concoction you are making sounds good but how many glasses can a man sip before he blacks out and ends up in the county jail?
ping...
The shiners down in Dykes holler say you can drink their shine or use it in your truck. Runs the same. They put a peeled peach in theirs before they lid it. Always shakes a quick bead.
I don’t remember. ;)
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