Owen's Craft of Whiskey Distilling

[stilly_bugger]

The full version of Bill Owen's 2009 Craft of Whiskey Distilling is available free online through The American Distilling Institute website:
http://www.distilling.com/PDF/craftbook.pdf [4MB]

[grumpthehermit]

Downloading now.

Cheers for that !!!

GTH

[stilly_bugger]

Okay, if you liked that, here's another of Owens' books that is available through the ADI website:

Bill Owens (2009) Modern Moonshine Techniques

Table of Contents

• Glossary
• Introduction
• CHAPTER 1. Moonshine — the Legend and the Law (Chapter 1 link includes cover, front matter, glossary and introduction)
• CHAPTER 2. Distilling in 18th Century America
• CHAPTER 3. What’s Moonshine? Distilled spirits made in an unlicensed still
• CHAPTER 4. Moonshine: The Easy Way From Sugar
• CHAPTER 5. How to Distill Moonshine From Sugar
• CHAPTER 6. Building a Corn Cooker
• CHAPTER 7. I See the Future and it’s Whiskey
• CHAPTER 8. Building a Mash Tun
• CHAPTER 9. Whiskey Washes
• CHAPTER 10. How to Distill Whiskey (On a 100 gallon pot still)
• CHAPTER 11. Using a Simple Column Still
• Appendices
  
  • A. The Spread Sheet for Small Distillery
  • B. The Code of Federal Regulations
  • C. Grant Application Farm Distiller
  • Small Distillery Startup
  • D. Moonshine Vocabulary
  • E. Information about TTB and Licensing a Distillery
  • Recommended Reading
  • G. No Yeast Necessary
  • Afterward

I think the online version is a draft because the chapters are in a different order and the names don't always match up to how they are listed in the table of contents. As I've listed the chapters and appendices is how they appear online.

[stilly_bugger]

And while I'm at it, here are some other resources available through The American Distilling Institute.

• The 2012 American Distilling Institute Directory [14MB]
• Issues of Distiller magazine:
  
  • Vol. 5, No. 1, September 2009 [8MB]
  • Vol. 6, No. 1, July 2010 [11MB]
  • Vol. 7, No. 1, Summer 2011 [10MB]
  • Michael Delevante, 'Aging Spirit in Oak', Distiller, Vol. 3, No. 1 [4MB]
• Steve Wright 2008, 'Distillery Operations: Overview of Whisk(e)y Production Operations', Comprehensive Powerpoint presentation, Spiritech Solutions [3MB]

Enjoy.

[stilly_bugger]

Then there are all of the ADI newsletters, available at http://distilling.com/resources.html.

[Eucyblues]

Sadly - all these links appear to be dead... :handgestures-thumbdown:

[1 2many]

Sadly - all these links appear to be dead... :handgestures-thumbdown:

They are old threads mate that's probably why.

How about popping into the welcome center and introduce your self. ;-)

[Geeps]

Works for me? :handgestures-thumbupleft:

[MacStill]

Works for me? :handgestures-thumbupleft:

:text-+1:

[CH3CH2OH]

someone should add this to the library if they have a copy

[Eucyblues]

How about popping into the welcome center and introduce your self. ;-)

Done
Cheers