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First I had to learn more about making whisky. On the internet I found a lot of information.
Whisky is made from barley. The barley first must be threshed. So I built a threshing machine, after a picture I found on internet. In picture 2 it stands on the right. I made it of wooden sticks doctors use to look into your throat, and some thingies I keep because you never know where it is good for. Like gears out of a broken cd-rom player and so on.
After threshing, the barley is made wet in the oil barrels you also see in this picture, just behind the threshing machine. These I made from paper which I painted blue with enamel paint and then made rusty.
For the malting process I created a malting floor in the top of the shed. A woodstove provides the smoke and warmth for the malt to dry.
Then the oil barrels are used for the fermentation process of the malt. So I made a spoon out of a waxine-cup so the wort can be stirred.
For the actual destillation I built a copper pot still. The heat for this still comes from a heater that works on propane gas. The still is made out of a candy pot, a deodorant lid, a particle out of a handsoappump and a plastic rope, painted in copper. The gastank is made of a childrens surprise egg, and some other thingies. Gee, don’t we have a great hobby???
Then after distillation the whiskey is kept in barrels. And then after a few years, the whisky is put in the glass bottles which I made out of a Christmas decoration. Of course, with its own tag.
Left you see the office. The Moonshine Shed Single Malt Whiskey is rather famous around here, so it needs some bookkeeping. Also you see the boxes in which the whisky is sold.
Except for the laptop and the stool (running out of time) again I made everything myself.
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