So if it's about safety, we should really regulate all of this dangerous activity. Maybe we need to have mandatory safety classes for anyone who uses a propane tank for anything. You would be given a card licensing you to use the tank or to get the tank refilled after you successfully complete your safety course. This course could be paid for with a fee assessed at the time of purchase of your tank. Of course, you would need enforcement police, they could be paid for with a user tax on equipment and on propane. A whole cottage industry would be created for people who are ticketed without the proper credentials. Online courses and such for training, much like online driving school to get tickets off of your record. Just think of all of the jobs we could create and make the nation safer all at the same time. Yessir, it's all about safety.
The propane isn't the main danger. It's the steam and boiling liquids. The average person does not understand how to control expansive gasses like steam. Boiler explosions are not fun. It's also the poisonous nature of the whiskey produced by amateurs and the dumbass corner-cutting employed, like using old car radiators for condensers, introducing lead and glycol.
I know all this and was being tongue in cheek. It does seem silly to me though. Check this video when the water hits the grease fire. [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZ-G4Fgvbyk&feature=related]Fire Safety! A MUST SEE! - YouTube[/ame]
actually old radiators or plastic ones are better because they blow before doing damage to the engine. so you were running shine back in the day or just read about or had a friend who did it.
My grandfather ran a sawmill and was a Police Juryman in Winn Parish in the '40's and '50's. He knew practically every voter in the south part of the parish, including the moonshiners, who mostly had legitimate day jobs in the timber business. I heard many tales about the depression, moonshining, bootlegging, the Klan, the Louisiana Manuevers, Huey and Earl, and other early 20th century rural Americana. And I have redneck cousins in north Alabama mountain country who bought a lot of shine in the 60's and 70's. The stuff was about 150 proof and tasted like Cauliflower Vodka. No thanks, I'll have a beer.
right but normal people do those things. only hillbillies bother brewing moonshine. and there is no way you would ever get in trouble if you brewed moonshine for yourself and pals. and if you want to brew it for sale you could do that too, you would just have to be a proper liquor company with quality and safety standards.
People seem to be implying that most moonshine is all 190 proof and very potent. It isn't. The hillbilly variety is around 75-90 proof just like regular store bought liquor. If it is more potent coming out of the still they can always water it down, (cut it with something) to increase their profits. At a Christmas party I attended someone opened a present that contained moonshine. It was basically a marketing ploy to sell legal liquor that was probably overpriced. Immediately, everyone there thought it was so strong. When I had a chance to look at the bottle it wasn't even 80 proof.
Exactly. This is the same for any liquor distillation process. That's why most measure the specific gravity (even on the moonshine show), while some on the show use the "shake it up and watch the bubbles" method.
