I mean, I guess. It’s not like I know. It just seems really odd a retail giant like Amazin would sell something that’s entire purpose violates federal law.
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There are several other instances where obtaining the device used to commit a crime isn’t illegal, yet once it is used for its sole function, you have committed the crime.
Can you give me an example?
Fuck, I knew you’d ask.
Off the top of my head a bong. I know there are others… give me a day to recall. lol
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From the ATF’s website Q&A:
I’ve seen ads for home distilling equipment in catalogs (“turn wine into brandy,” “make your own essential oils”). Is it legal to buy and use a still like that?
Under Federal rules administered by TTB, it depends on how you use the still. You may not produce alcohol with these stills unless you qualify as a distilled spirits plant. However, owning a small still and using it for other purposes is allowed. You should also check with your State and local authorities - their rules may differ. You should also review our Home Distilling page.
A still is defined as apparatus capable of being used to separate ethyl alcohol from a mixture that contains alcohol. Small stills (with a cubic distilling capacity of a gallon or less) that are used for laboratory purposes or for distilling water or other non-alcoholic materials are exempt from our rules. If you buy a small still and use it to distill water or extract essential oils by steam or water extraction methods, you are not subject to TTB requirements. If you produce essential oils by a solvent method and you get alcohol as a by-product of your process, we consider that distilling. Even though you are using and recovering purchased alcohol, you are separating the alcohol from a mixture -distilling.
Last reviewed/updated 01/06/2015
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Okay, cool. Like I said, it just seems odd to me, but it certainly doesn’t surprise me.
So now you just need to plant some rosemary and basil.
Ya know, for the oils.
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Good tune.I’m pretty sure that’s what the one I posted was based on. Now I want to learn to play the mandolin.
I had an ex girlfriend do that with a little something I had under some grow lights.
Out the door and straight to the police station she went.
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The phrase “Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned” comes to mind.
Somewhere Satan’s like: “don’t bring me into it. I didn’t create woman”.
But all that aside I try to follow all laws (that I know about). I resent them the whole time but I’m not going to a cage if I can help it. If I ever was to break bad I wouldn’t tell a living soul about it. Also, there’d be a big whole where fort Knox used to be.
I break laws like a reflex even though I’ve been trying not to for quite a while.
Even in casual conversation with someone that had a few home brew kits for wine I went straight to “Hey, why don’t we just get a couple of sheets of stainless and fab up a still? It’ll be a piece of cake…”. I figured it would be easier than using multiple kits. A couple of drums for fermentation, still, condenser- no problem.
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I think the same bad thoughts.
“Ooh it could be a reflux still with removable packing for stripping runs”
“Or even a vacuum still”
Some fruit wines are fine after 6 months otherwise it’s 1-2 year min of waiting…
I started brewing beer in the 1970s. The reason to do it them was that you could make far better beer than you could buy. Making beer that is every bit as good as the best micro beer. It just requires that you do it right. Yes A home brewer can make the best beer in the world. The yeast cultures are available to you, the best malts and hops are all available for you.
That said today you can buy great beer almost anywhere. The micro beer revolution has filled our stores with world class beer. You will not beat it at home any longer. Now the reason you do it is the love of doing it yourself. Maybe having a beer that no one else has. No you do not save money, not unless you see the 8hrs of work per batch it takes as not having a value. 100 gallons or 5 gallons take about the same amount of time. It’s just a matter of your equipment. If you make it 100 at a time, you are saving a lot of money. But lord 100 gal systems are not cheap. They do not give food grade stainless steel away. And if you are drinking that much beer yourself.
Its fun, that is why you do it
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Charring oak barrels does not create the signature Tennessee Whiskey flavor. Charcoal filtering is the step that is distinctive to this style of whiskey. Charred new oak barrels as well as bourbon. Tennessee whiskey is technically bourbon with this added step.
Publically Corrected! My face is red! But maybe from drinking.
Google taught me about The Lincoln County Process -whiskey filtered through a layer of maple charcoal before it goes in the barrel.
What?! I thought all the flavor came from, and could only be achieved by distilling within the confines of Tennessee 
The confines of ONLY 3 specific counties in TN.
Super Special!