Launching The Largest Outlaw Stilling Operation In Decades | Moonshiners

yeah we'll get this thing walked out and get it over here what do you reckon kenny spinning around yeah yeah yeah yeah all right what you are buddy all right yeah i'm fine okay in franklin county virginia after smuggling eight massive submarine stills across state lines josh tickle and the laws are constructing a still farm to mount the largest outlaw liquor operation the county has seen in decades we got to start somewhere in here and there's eight pots might as well start on one end of it we've really got our work cut out for us we've got all this malted corn this is two tons on that we ain't got no steel big enough to run this stuff on and well josh he's got all these pots we're just gonna get everybody together set up here make us a whole lot of malted corn liquor we gotta start getting these pots set and then we'll just move right on down the line what we're gonna have is we're gonna have eight pots running all the way down here and we'll have our worm and thumper barrel over yonder in the middle where we can tie everything to them and as soon as we get them all set up we'll mash in and we'll run the dog piss out these things what we do is we bury our blocks down and then we fill these things up with dirt she's looking good on this side that insulates these blocks and keeps this fire from burning these blocks out you like this boss that looks good i like it all right that's one seven more to go [Music] this is a real operation i mean we got eight stills here i don't know anybody that's got eight steels that's an outfit that's a real outfit all right looks good and that's a stretch off wow god dawg that's pretty we're going to put two thumpers here one of those long pipes over a tan i'm gonna go right over that wall right there with him beautiful worms that you've made it's been a long time since we've had eight subs you know and to do something like this again after so many years at first you know i started getting a little overwhelmed by it but it's a rush i mean look if you get back on that end and that in there have you ever seen such yeah it's been a long time though henry and kenny loft they're one of the families that made franklin county the moonshine capital of the world this right here is bringing back the old days the most famous of the laws is henry's father and mentor amos law who operated one of the most extensive illegal shine operations in virginia history in a career that spanned over half a century amos oversaw a small army of two-man teams in multiple locations that worked as many as 60 submarine pods each with an 800 gallon capacity producing tens of thousands of gallons of shine each month federal investigators calculated that over a single five-year period amos produced over a half a million gallons of untaxed liquor but those closest to amos speculate that the feds underestimated the output that don't look good that is beautiful as you can see that looks beautiful yeah i ain't seen nothing like this in real life ever i only seen stuff like this some pictures we got 50 feet of steels literally 50 feet long and i'm hooked up with two moonshine legends i mean the amount of knowledge that they have in their brains you know about this stuff is like it's incredible i don't reckon it's nothing left to do but finish up building the furnaces and get the rest of the steel site together right exactly right right now we're going to build this front of these subs in the back of the subs in we got to go out to the back of the building we got to get some oil tanks down there get the burners in there as you can see we got a hell of a job it's been 40 years since we've seen this minute set up hannah kenny 40 frictions it is it's pretty level it's pretty level there yeah one submarine pot setup is a beautiful thing to a moonshine but when you line eight of these big bad boys up i tell you what it is a sight to behold now how we doing this is i think it menu figure three didn't we yeah our next step now is to build these furnaces in because we're gonna fire this stuff with oil now that's something that most people wouldn't normally use but in this old barn right here we don't want to take a chance on burning it down can you need to cut me some of those uh round flues okay don't need to be about as thick as these block right here just enough to go through the cap block anytime you go moving something inside you got a hell of a job ahead of you feeling with oil is a complete different situation it's so safe compared to propane that propane is very dangerous yeah so we got to build all of this in tight so we're going to take these brick and we're going to come back there we've got to totally enclose this thing so we can efficiently heat these pots the team has four 800-gallon submarine pots and four 400-gallon pots lined up in a row they'll use two thump kegs fed into one condenser and run two pots of fermented mash at a time once those pots are done running the caps and thump kegs will move down to the next two pots and the process will repeat itself until all laid have been run resulting in 600 gallons of finished moonshine i got the electrodes on these tips right here these burners put off a little bit of spark that's what lights the fuel oil just like the furnace of a house it's got to be closed in tight if you have any big gaps or anything it'll draw air and it'll smoke like haley's oil burners will so it's got to be pretty tight and they slide right in there when you fire them up the heat goes straight under there and then comes out on the back side comes out that chimney and that's pretty important when you're in a steel site like this because you want to be able to get all those gases and fumes and stuff out of here makes for a much cleaner work environment and it's a lot safer hell yeah that's smooth right there all right gonna fight yes sir got your pipes right under henry there we go that'll do it josh left his glasses over here look at how you use them things for you you look just like josh wind goggles there right do i look like that shot hi do i look like you hey josh if the police come up i'm gonna tell them my name is josh owen yes sir this is my still say my name's stephen pickles good times i love you brother this is the dream team since we finished here we'll go back and get all the green stuff and sugarload it all right well let's smash in there yeah let's get to it and get to doing it i'm all for that beautiful beautiful beautiful we put a lot of time and money into building up this steel site straight in and now we're ready to mash in our pots this is a lot of ingredients we have got two tons of malted corn that we got from tim there's tons of sugar let's make no mistake about it we've got our work cut out for us here sure it's been an absurd amount of work bringing these steels all the way up to virginia getting all the supplies getting everything set up but it's finally starting to pay off and it feels pretty good i'm gonna fire these babies up now firing the hole boys there we go that's your way to go roxanna hell yeah we're fixing to be making some son henry's been telling me about these oil burners and finally we're getting to see them in action it's a whole lot less headache they're quiet and efficient it's a no-brainer to me remember listen rain on the roof bro everything is quiet quiet as can be no propane tanks to be handling no damage no danger i'm falling over blowing up on us well i'm ready to rock and roll i don't know what you want to do next as soon as it gets hot so it's boiling i'm going to dump it in grain and we're gonna let it cook for an hour and then we're ready to put sugar in it we're gonna do these four tonight these four the next day we're mashing those four if you figure you're gonna run four subs a day you don't wanna go in and mash all it up four of them be ready too quick you don't want that when they get ready to run you want to run them so we'll mash in four one day and then we'll come back and match him for the next day

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Id: 22BW81gTB8w

Length: 8min 12sec (492 seconds)

Published: Sun Apr 17 2022