All 'Shine' starts as BEER. Once you have the brewed beer, minus hops, you just strain off the liquid from the wort, run the beer thru the still a few times and discard the used wort. Used wort is good feed filler for cattle or goats.

Any thing can be brewed into raw beer. The more raw sugar in the plant the better. Blackberry vines, potatoes, corn, sugar cane.....

I know a guy that has a Whisky distellry. He is buying beer from our local distributors that is pulled off the store shelf's due to age or not selling. He runs it thru his still 4 times and all the hop flavor is gone. He is buying CASES of Corona Especial real CHEAP. This Corona is still good beer but he can not resell it, nor can he give it away. It must be dumped into his wort vat.