Craft Distilling: Making Liquor Legally at Home by Victoria Redhed Miller [0865718040, Format: EPUB]


  • Title: Craft Distilling: Making Liquor Legally at Home
  • Autor: Victoria Redhed Miller
  • Pages: 350
  • Publisher (Publication Date): Sandstone Press (June 12, 2018)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0865718040
  • Download File Format: EPUB


Many people have experienced great success making their own beer or wine at home. In recent years a number of hobbyists have become interested in making distilled spirits. However, distilled spirits are more complicated to produce, and the process presents unique safety issues. In addition, alcohol distillation without a license is illegal in most countries, including the United States and Canada.

From mashing and fermenting to building a small column still, Craft Distilling is a complete guide to creating high-quality whiskey, rum and more at home. Experienced brewer, distiller, and self- reliance expert Victoria Redhed Miller shares a wealth of invaluable information including:

Quality Spirits 101: Step-by-step recipes and techniques
Legal Liquor: An overview of the licensing process in the United States and Canada
Raising the Bar: Advocacy for fair regulations for hobby distillers

This unique resource will show you everything you need to know to get started crafting top-quality spirits on a small scale – and do it legally. Sure to appeal to hobbyists, homesteaders, self-sufficiency enthusiasts, and anyone who cares about fine food and drink, Craft Distilling is the ideal offering for independent spirits.

Victoria Redhed Miller is a writer, photographer and homesteader who lives on a forty-acre off-grid farm in northwest Washington State with her husband David. She strives to enhance her family’s self-reliance through solar energy, gardening, food preservation, raising heritage poultry, blacksmithing, and other traditional skills Victoria is the author of Pure Poultry: Living Well with Heritage Chickens, Turkeys and Ducks.