A recipe for moonshine, or more specifically, Croatian rakija, the nectar of the author's people ...

Remaining mash Add water, sugar and yeast to the other half of the corn mash set aside in step 5 above. You can make four to five more batches, but if the mash is overused, the alcohol will taste bad.

For every gallon of mash you make, you’ll need three 1-pint Mason jars (in other words, enough room for 6 cups), though the yield can be unpredictable, and you may not use all of them.

Officers from the Sheriff's Department and the state Department of Revenue found 840 gallons of fermenting corn mash and at least 38 gallons of moonshine whiskey.

Authorities also found 13 gallons of moonshine and two 55-gallon barrels of corn mash.

Those 204 barrels contained 11,220 gallons of mash, which is capable of producing 1,428 gallons of moonshine a week. That has a street value of $42,840. In a year, that would total $2.2 million.

It was a 50-gallon still, surrounded by 2,000 gallons of mash ready for distilling and kegs filled with finished moonshine. A flume brought water from a nearby creek.

Agents also reported finding approximately 400 gallons of mash, 150 gallons of moonshine, one 55-gallon barrel of corn and 25 pounds of yeast.

It was used to make an illegal liquor the Sheriff’s Office called “hooch, homebrew or moonshine,” in the news release. Two 55-gallon drums of peach mash were found, according to the news ...