Product Description

Book Description

How to make beer, wine, liqueurs and moonshine whiskey. The author dusts off over 30 years of experience to tell you how it's done. He not only tells how to make darned near any kind of beer, wine, liqueur and whiskey you can imagine, he also tells you how to make the equipment to do it with.

Ever wondered how a still is made? There are 8 types illustrated in this book and though it's illegal to build or possess a still, the illustrations are so complete, you could easily do it! This book includes plans and operating instructions from underground moonshiner manuals used in Mid East oil fields. Some are built with components found in most home kitchens. From moonshine, homebrew, wine and liqueur recipes, to stills, make your own cappers, kegs, scales and even a malt factory from an old freezer, it's all here!

Easy to read and humorous, this book entertains you with Alaskan tales and bootlegger's lore while you learn to make everything from beer and blossom wines, to horse turd whiskey and bathtub gin. If you could buy only one "make your own" book for the rest of your life, this is it. It's like getting a whole shelf of books for the price of one!

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #75508 in Books
• Published on: 2000-06
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 198 pages

From the Author
I'm glad my book has made it to the U.K. and hope it will be as well received as it has been in the U.S. and Canada. I designed this book to be an entertaining read which will take you from the novice to expert status in making your own beers, wines, liqueurs and moonshine whiskey without confusing you with scientific gobbledygook. With frugality in mind I show you how to make ALL your own equipment and use wholesome natural ingredients rather than expensive extracts, chemicals and paraphenalia. With five printings totaling over 21,000 books in less than three years I seem to have struck a chord with U.S. and Canadian readers and hope it will be as popular in the U.K.

Leon W. Kania

About the Author
About the Author

Never nominated for sainthood, the author has spent his life in the most "gawdawful" places with some of the most interesting people imaginable. "Making your own" often meant using local ingredients and improvising your equipment. This thirst induced ingenuity produced some amazing and sometimes hilarious results. The characters, recipes, plans and instructions in this book are real, only the names have been changed to protect the guilty. The war stories are all true and growing daily.

An ex-Green Beret, Leon came to Alaska in 1973. Assigned to the U.S. Army Northern Warfare Training Center at Ft. Greely where he met his wife Scottie. The crew now includes a son, Leon Jr. studying for a degree in Computer Science and an incorrigible little green bird named Jessie who "punctuated" almost every page of the draft book.

The aim of this book is to explain how to make all types of alcoholic beverages in an easy to understand and entertaining manner. It stresses the arts, not the science, steers you toward using wholesome natural ingredients, rather than chemicals and shows you how to make, rather than buy most of your equipment. It has an Alaskan Bush flavor by virtue of many of its tales and recipes, but the "how-to" information is universal and applies anywhere in the world.

Customer Reviews

The Alaskan Bootlegger's Bible
Great fun,informative and inspiring, I haven't finished it yet and I can't wait to get brewing! Leon sounds like the kinda guy you just want to be mates with, love the pore-boy stuff, great way of hashing together the basic stuff for brewing and bottling, of course none of us would dare to hazard the making of a still!! Overall a great read laced with good humour

Alaskan Bootlegger's Bible
Mr. Kania has an exhausting knowledge of brewing techniques. This knowledge is surpassed only by his sense of humor. This work is not only a valuable reference tool, but it's a good read as well!

The Alaskan Bootleggers Bible
A fantastic collection of brewing and distilling recipes, all strung together with the author's own experiences and stories/folk law.... Like putting crumbled Dynamite into the brew if you are forced to brew in conditions too cold for proper fermentation J.

There are plans for Distillation and other less than legal.... Apparatus...along with warnings about methanol poising as well as blending lists for making bootleg versions of most major Sprits. The recipes tend to be a little US centric for the raw materials... but what do you expect looking at the title.

I would recommend this to anyone looking for something different in homemade beverages.