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I'm not even to the point yet were I'd even consider popping out 12 liters of anything

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For the record my entire alcohol consumption amounts to about a liter of whiskey's worth' in a month, it's not like I'm sitting by the stove drinking hot spirits as fast as they form

I'm one of those generous givers - if a friend of mine particularly likes a liquor they needn't ask for a sample, but tend to leave the house with a liter or more. I give more away than I actually drink, but at a cost to me of $1.25 for a liter of vodka, who's complaining?
It's hobby, not necessity that I do this.

I hope one day to distill a liquor of exceptional taste, and sell the recipy to an established distillery to make me good $$.

It's not like I'm distilling 24/7.

I tend to convert big batches of wash into stock alcohol, once distilled, which is storage stable (doesn't spoil but even improves with age) and can be left alone.

This stock alcohol can then be "cleaned" and used as is in mixtures, or subjected to a second distillation with various herbs and fruits to provide liquors.

So basically the creation of stock alcohol is large scale and a bit of a chore once in a long while. (ripening with age) While the actual distilling of spirits occurs in 0.5-1 liter batches.

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I guess I was just curious if anything fancy needed to be done with the standard stock alcohol (like certain types of grains that needed to be soaked for a freaken month beforehand, or some crap like that) or if it would be something realatively simple like suger/water and yeast

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I guess I've just been avoiding distillation cause I've always thought there'd be a lot more to it then that...but the more and more I've been reading up on it - the more and more I'm realizing just how simple this actually can be

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thanx for the encouragement by the way

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Hey, it's an ancient art and its fun

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does it louche or turn milky when water is added like a true Parisian Absinthe.

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Immediately a louche became appearant, which over the minutes gradually deepened until the glass became fully opaque with cloudiness.

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One cannot become blind from drinking home distilled. That is to say one cannot become blind from drinking spirit distilled at home from mash. It is a myth that stubbornly lives on. A distilling apparatus does not create any products, it only separates different products.

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