J.W. Bring Back the Still!

[Joyce (AnnieLee)]

I've got a hankering to make some blackberry brandy.



AnnieLee

[Foothills Drifter]

Howdy......
Make some 'OLD #7 and I'll be happy..........

Good shootin......
Vern...

[Doctor Bill]

Got my doctorate in oenology (science of wine making).  Ran off many a good batch of brandy as part of the "research".  That's my story and I'm sticking to it.



Doctor Bill

[Delmonico]

Dr. Bill, this got started in our Newbrasskey thread in the Tall Tales section.  In our strange tale of ranchin in the 1880's, the hero (the ranch cook who else) saves a poor dog from a bad case of diaria with a shot of blackberry brandy.  Do you know anything about brackberry brandy, blackberry wine or even the fresh juice being a natural cure for this malady.  Or does it just make poopin' a lot more fun.

[Foothills Drifter]

  Or does it just make poopin' a lot more fun.

Howdy......
     

Good shootin......
Vern...

[J.W.Neely]

I take a few days off and just look what happens, gone to the dogs!

[Joyce (AnnieLee)]

Dang, J.W. either that picture is tiny, or I am going blind from no blackberry brandy!

AnnieLee

[J.W.Neely]

[J.W.Neely]

Better?

[Delmonico]

I don't think that be the still owners, I think them fellers is revanoooers.

[Four-Eyed Buck]

The shirts Del?...............Buck

[Delmonico]

and jackets and ties.  They should be wearin' bib overalls.

[Doctor Bill]

They is too well dressed to be the owners.  Not sufficient representation of bib-overalls.

The still looks like a good 2-stage system.  From what I can see, it looks like the large metal thing to the far right is the water boiler.  Steam goes through the copper line to the barrel to the left (copper top on it - sometimes called a "thumper" because of the sound from steam bubbles forming and condensing inside it) which holds the mash.  When it gets hot enough from the steam, the alcohol vapor will travel through the diagional line to the "worm" or condenser coil in the third barrel.  This sort of still was harder to build and tougher to deal with than a single stage still but it did not produce methanol or "wood alcohol" as a single stage still could where the mash was directly heated by the fire.  Looks like someone was taking a little pride in their work.

RE Blackberry Brandy:

I have at least two recipes for making any sort of fruit brandy.  Never heard it used as a cure for "the trots" though.   


Doctor Bill

[Joyce (AnnieLee)]

Revenuers???

J.W. Let revenuers get to the still!?!?!

Shame on him!
Shame on you, JW, how am I going to make that brandy, now???



AnnieLee, grumpy

[J.W.Neely]

That's what i was trying to tell ya, the blue belly revenuers found the still!

[Joyce (AnnieLee)]

Rasa Frasa, DAGNABBIT!!

<Kicks the furniture, stubs her toe>

OW!!!

<Very colorful cursing ensues>




AnnieLee

[Russ T Chambers]

AnnieLee

I think I saw this from somewhere over Western Wisconsin.   Maybe Slim can track it down for you.

[Forty Rod]

Dooley was a good old man....

[Joyce (AnnieLee)]

I've noticed that Russ T is doing a lot of traveling back and forth, and now, out of thin air, he say's he's found a replacement still for me and the cousins.


Hmm. He says he is a territorial governor...

RUSS T is a REVENUER!!! GET THE SHOTGUNS!!!!




AnnieLee

[Russ T Chambers]

I've noticed that Russ T is doing a lot of traveling back and forth, and now, out of thin air, he say's he's found a replacement still for me and the cousins.


Hmm. He says he is a territorial governor...

RUSS T is a REVENUER!!! GET THE SHOTGUNS!!!!




AnnieLee

Boy see if I try to find you a replacement still again!!!!!      Besides, does this look like the face of a revenuer???