I really hope god gave him the peace he deserves! RIP Popcorn Sutton. I’m just glad we have you here on RUclips. When I’m feeling depressed I just turn on one of his videos and it’s like a instant mood change!
Popcorn's little mischievous laugh really gets me lol it's as if whenever he laughs its the laughter of a 25 yr old Popcorn This man is a national treasure, it was despicable what our own government did to this old man..
Rest in peace Popcorn Sutton. you and the people of the Appalachian mountains are the greatest of the American people. From an admiring and deeply respectful Lancastrian from the UK.
So it turns out another proud son of lancashire discovered this treasure, in return please allow me to show you one of our own local sons. They just don't make them like they use to. ruclips.net/video/3R3-YwDZrzg/видео.html Fred Dibnah laddering an old chimney for inspection.
Frankie Rizzo people like you what’s wrong why you blaming people for literally adapting to what the fuck they were born into niggas act like we can control the fact that be discoveries are coming out to make life easier for people we can’t help it that from a young age were groomed to spend the entire day in school then parents most of the time have they’re kids watching tv or on the computer or on the phone or playing with some unnecessary ass toys when they could literally be learning life in they’re most impressionable state of being but continue to talk shit and then raise your kids programmed to act the exact same (brainwashed) your life🤷🏽♂️
Popcorn Sutton, Jim Bean, Johnny Walker and Jack Daniels are all doing the thump keg waltz in heaven right now!! May they forever thump keg waltz in peace!
There's war now about throw us all into chaos, but I come here and escape with popcorn and JD. JD is every bit of a legend as Popcorn just more low key.
Popcorn is hunched over due to Kyphosis, in which the spine bends giving a hunched over appearance usually from very poor posture or from someone who worked their lives always having to be bent over. RIP popcorn, you are an icon, then and now. If only you were still out there in them hills makin the shine! We love ya buddy!
If I knew about Popcorn Sutton I would've drove all the way from western Kentucky to pay very well for a mason jar of shine. They don't make em like that anymore. Only reason why the gov made it illegal is that they can't get any tax money from it.
i like this . the family should make copies to sell so they have money to pay for Popcorns upkeep . He was a true American legend and he should have a museum built about his life and those who taught him
If your interested in making shine ,look for the book series called foxfire , they cover old time skills from farming to skinning and preparing meat ,and moon shine amongst other subjects .
brings me back a few years i helped my great grandpa and grandpa run their still i was no more than 11 at the time last i made was over 20 years ago just to show my son what i had to do when i was a kid
there has been some speculation that the fact that he was going to prison isn't the only reason he took his own life. some believe he was sick and didn't want to die in prison. or even take the chance that he might. no telling for sure i guess.
It's in a separate barrel or container to filter it through once the alcohol is distilled off. Like he said, the first batch through it will be darker because the charcoal is "new". Subsequent filtrations will be clear.
@demnlordd666 1) To double distill the alcohol while removing more and more impurities. It uses the steam from the pot and pushes through the back ends, evaporating more alcohol along the way and distilling at a higher proof, (2)thus the reason you don't use water in a thump keg. Wouldn't do any good.
I WORKED FOR A TRUCKING COMPANY AWHILE BACK AND THEY HAD SOME OLD BOYS FROM THE SOUTH THAT WOULD BRING SOME SHINE TO US SOME OF THOSE FOOLS WOULD PUT WATER IN IT TOLD THEM YOUR RUINING SOME GOOD LIKKER
you can skip the thumper but it's dangerous. the thumper catches bad stuff, as wall as tempers it ( lowers the alcohol content) diluting any methanol that gets through. the best way to control these things though is to carefully control the temprature. ethanol, methanol, water, etc. all have a different boiling point so if you have the still at or within a couple degrees of the ethanol vapor point, you get only ethanol and stuff that boils at colder tempratures.
@WildlifeSeriaLKiller ok so it is a reflux chamber kinda. the alcohol steam mix hits the colder back ends in the thump keg, but only the alcohol is mobile enough to stay in vapor form while the water steam looses too much energy and gets stuck, then you are passing more alcohol to the worm. ok so when you are done with the run, are the back ends the last out the worm or the stuff left in the thump keg that still has alcohol?
Thank you !!! Well, that is surely the old way to do it, Brista makes good charcoal filters that we can use today and may be good to not altered the taste like real charcoal did !! But you are right !! TNX again !!! :)
to distill the alcohol removing impurities. it will take steam from the pot to push the back ends and evaporat alcohol during the process and distill for hihger proof.pluse 180 proof is what it goes into but usually you can only get 160 proof. (2) not any good if you use water
Water would work, but does not at any flavor, or alcohol to your run. And since water needs a 100 degrees to boil, and (the nice kind of) alcohol somewhere around 78 degrees, well, it saves energy, and that is a topic today :)
Wait... It boils and goes into that wooden barrel, then leaves that barrel to the worm? I'm not following what the wooden barrel before the worm is for.
1) what is the function of the stump keg? I understand the construction and flow of steam but not why it is important unless it is some kind of simple reflux chamber. could some one explain it a bit? 2) why do the bakkins need to be used instead of clean water or plain moon shine? I get that it is a mix of alcohol and water, and probably keeps more water and lets alcohol pass at the gas/liquid interface. but could some one explain?
@daryljo1 I have seen it. It's a fine documentary that does use quite a bit of this footage. I prefer this one though. More footage, more stories, more Popcorn Sutton and J.B. Rader. This is my favorite film.
Yes and the best Liquor you could drink not at all nothing like you get at the Liquor Store he was The Best he's using copper anything else could cause you to go Blind or Kidney failure
She had 2 tablespoons a night. Now as I grew he would say there's sosos car I one day asked him how he knew he said it was parked there because he has a still on that creek. Every where he Gould find clean water he
It removes some impurities, but unfortunately will also remove some of the natural flavors that you want to keep...so it's a double edged sword. It's known as "polishing".
Fire oil or fusel oil / tail the last part of run is not fit beyond a certain point . Heads / hearts / tails / last part of run at beginning has some congeners that may add taste / hearts is slightly sweet but not much of anything unless you add some late heads and some tails .
@WildlifeSeriaLKiller ,What if you dont have any back ends, could you not use the thump keg and run it straight through the worm? and maybe save the back ends from that run to use next time. Or could you do like demnlord666 said and use moonshine in the thump keg? Thank for posting these videos by the way, love watching Popcorn I already watched these several times..
I really hope god gave him the peace he deserves! RIP Popcorn Sutton. I’m just glad we have you here on RUclips. When I’m feeling depressed I just turn on one of his videos and it’s like a instant mood change!
TRUTH Brother
Born and raised in south east Alabama I love sitting around and listening to the old timers talking about there past
No one and I mean no one cares
That man brings a smile to my face. They aint none like him that ive seen anywhere. Pop corn was 1 of a kind!
Popcorn's little mischievous laugh really gets me lol it's as if whenever he laughs its the laughter of a 25 yr old Popcorn
This man is a national treasure, it was despicable what our own government did to this old man..
Rest in peace Popcorn Sutton. you and the people of the Appalachian mountains are the greatest of the American people. From an admiring and deeply respectful Lancastrian from the UK.
Well considering thats my home and still my home forty years later i appreciate your respect sir
Well said brother
As a proud West By-God Virginian, I thank you and appreciate your sentiments.
So it turns out another proud son of lancashire discovered this treasure, in return please allow me to show you one of our own local sons. They just don't make them like they use to.
ruclips.net/video/3R3-YwDZrzg/видео.html
Fred Dibnah laddering an old chimney for inspection.
@@myview5840 Fred was a legend. Lived not far from him in Bolton.
When men remembered they were happier being FREE.
yes!!!!
Frankie Rizzo people like you what’s wrong why you blaming people for literally adapting to what the fuck they were born into niggas act like we can control the fact that be discoveries are coming out to make life easier for people we can’t help it that from a young age were groomed to spend the entire day in school then parents most of the time have they’re kids watching tv or on the computer or on the phone or playing with some unnecessary ass toys when they could literally be learning life in they’re most impressionable state of being but continue to talk shit and then raise your kids programmed to act the exact same (brainwashed) your life🤷🏽♂️
Every time I see popcorn I think of the national treasure we lost, Rip popcorn so missed especially your talent that is now lost
Popcorn Sutton, Jim Bean, Johnny Walker and Jack Daniels are all doing the thump keg waltz in heaven right now!! May they forever thump keg waltz in peace!
There's war now about throw us all into chaos, but I come here and escape with popcorn and JD. JD is every bit of a legend as Popcorn just more low key.
this is history, these guys are preserving/preserved a tradtion.. good for them!
R.I.P. My Friend, Your Legend Continues to Grow ensuring you'll Never be Forgotten!
Popcorn , aka master distiller , Sutton . Rip , the best shiner they ever was .
Popcorn is hunched over due to Kyphosis, in which the spine bends giving a hunched over appearance usually from very poor posture or from someone who worked their lives always having to be bent over. RIP popcorn, you are an icon, then and now. If only you were still out there in them hills makin the shine! We love ya buddy!
I could watch these videos all day. Popcorn was amazing
If I knew about Popcorn Sutton I would've drove all the way from western Kentucky to pay very well for a mason jar of shine. They don't make em like that anymore. Only reason why the gov made it illegal is that they can't get any tax money from it.
Exactly
This guy entertains me more then any video game out there.
Popcorn killed himself by sitting in a closed car/truck rather than go to jail for moonshining.
I LOVE OLD POPCORN!! WHAT A REAL MAN!! RIP MR POPCORN SUTTON!!
Wrong.
Now I'm young but i realised I'm gonna be happily old as him some days
Popcorn is a legend 🤠
Born a legend
Lived a legend
Died a legend
With love to you D.N.S 🤜🇿🇦
sutton was a craftsman shame he is no more.
Rest in peace ,popcorn. I got to watch your last liquor run complete several years ago, and I actually was able to make my own,without exploding.
My uncle was so much like popcorn, he died a few years back, miss him talking about the old days
i like this . the family should make copies to sell so they have money to pay for Popcorns upkeep . He was a true American legend and he should have a museum built about his life and those who taught him
the authorities would have had their work cut out trying to find these stills back in the day. real deliverence country.
This is art right here. A fine sculpture he envisioned and brought to fruition. Thanks for sharing.
This was a real art.
Fly high popcorn Sutton you were a great moon shiner
just seeing all the work it takes prior to making the liquor is fascinating, this was truly art
If your interested in making shine ,look for the book series called foxfire , they cover old time skills from farming to skinning and preparing meat ,and moon shine amongst other subjects .
brings me back a few years i helped my great grandpa and grandpa run their still i was no more than 11 at the time last i made was over 20 years ago just to show my son what i had to do when i was a kid
Can't wait untill movie comes out about popcorn I'll buy it forsure RIP. Popcorn.✝️☮️
man with an old soul
I think I'm in love 🥰
there has been some speculation that the fact that he was going to prison isn't the only reason he took his own life. some believe he was sick and didn't want to die in prison. or even take the chance that he might. no telling for sure i guess.
I'm a city boy that can't get enough of Mr. Sutton
How could you dislike videos of Popcorn making likker?!?
I've drank some of Popcorn's product back in the day it was mighty fine.
I would like to try to make moonshine at least a batch or 2 but I’m afraid I would blow myself up trying.
I wish I could live that kinda life, we shoulda stayed there a long time ago.
It's in a separate barrel or container to filter it through once the alcohol is distilled off. Like he said, the first batch through it will be darker because the charcoal is "new". Subsequent filtrations will be clear.
You know the liquor had to be worth good money,hell,look at the copper!!
Wow stell amaizing survivor verry nices.keep safe
Rest well my friend, see y'all on the other side.
Those Guys literally was The Greatest.
This was so soothing to watch
Miss ya Popcorn. Teaching the girls what you taught me.
9:13 the random audio edit "anybody wanna cold pepsi!?" 😂
My granddad made liquor on Panther Creek, Kentucky Moonshine
You just had to go messing with old popcorn didn't you couldn't just leave him alone
i think i could listen to popcorn talk all day long
That was one hell of a job
thanks for leaving pot off, I do belive it will become the new moonshine in todays standards.
Loved popcorn he was the best he made it the right way 👍
Anyone that wants to see more popcorn, Johnny Knoxville interviewed him n talked with him you could look it up.
The Master of moonshine yeah buddy.. R.I. P. Popcorn... Love these videos..
When popcorn giggled i seen him as a kid
@demnlordd666 1) To double distill the alcohol while removing more and more impurities. It uses the steam from the pot and pushes through the back ends, evaporating more alcohol along the way and distilling at a higher proof, (2)thus the reason you don't use water in a thump keg. Wouldn't do any good.
They caught me in 98 so I quite... 2011...
yes sir " a little dingy colered"---oh my god: the skills...
I WORKED FOR A TRUCKING COMPANY AWHILE BACK AND THEY HAD SOME OLD BOYS FROM THE SOUTH THAT WOULD BRING SOME SHINE TO US SOME OF THOSE FOOLS WOULD PUT WATER IN IT
TOLD THEM YOUR RUINING SOME GOOD LIKKER
Never be another like popcorn 💧 🥃
Legal or not, the real crime would be not to record it for posterity. 100 yrs time, it will be in a museum, as 'They Way We Use to Live'.
Popcorn shouldn't have committed suicide. He was awesome. He was going to withstand for 3 yrs.
5:57, popcorn isnt kidding about her being one tough ass woman!
RIP Popcorn ..... What a great guy!
One day I'll just like him and I don't got far
wish I could have met you popcorn you are a very smart man.RIP
you can skip the thumper but it's dangerous. the thumper catches bad stuff, as wall as tempers it ( lowers the alcohol content) diluting any methanol that gets through. the best way to control these things though is to carefully control the temprature. ethanol, methanol, water, etc. all have a different boiling point so if you have the still at or within a couple degrees of the ethanol vapor point, you get only ethanol and stuff that boils at colder tempratures.
Jbs back turned out same way popcorns is in this video.
@WildlifeSeriaLKiller ok so it is a reflux chamber kinda. the alcohol steam mix hits the colder back ends in the thump keg, but only the alcohol is mobile enough to stay in vapor form while the water steam looses too much energy and gets stuck, then you are passing more alcohol to the worm. ok so when you are done with the run, are the back ends the last out the worm or the stuff left in the thump keg that still has alcohol?
Wish I would’ve been there to help give them Better welds
I work at a chemical plant making Ethylene. It’s the same damn thing this genius was doing …
Thank you !!! Well, that is surely the old way to do it, Brista makes good charcoal filters that we can use today and may be good to not altered the taste like real charcoal did !! But you are right !!
TNX again !!! :)
Listen to a tribute to Popcorn by typing in Ode to Popcorn Sutton, Ginny McAfee. TYVM!
You ain't shit till your picture's in the post office !
to distill the alcohol removing impurities. it will take steam from the pot to push the back ends and evaporat alcohol during the process and distill for hihger proof.pluse 180 proof is what it goes into but usually you can only get 160 proof. (2) not any good if you use water
Anyone knows where this film was made?? Filming location??
Western North Carolina mountains.
I wonder how many Vienna Sausage cans I could drink?
Water would work, but does not at any flavor, or alcohol to your run.
And since water needs a 100 degrees to boil, and (the nice kind of) alcohol somewhere around 78 degrees, well, it saves energy, and that is a topic today :)
AMERICAN BADASS!!
Wait... It boils and goes into that wooden barrel, then leaves that barrel to the worm? I'm not following what the wooden barrel before the worm is for.
1) what is the function of the stump keg? I understand the construction and flow of steam but not why it is important unless it is some kind of simple reflux chamber. could some one explain it a bit?
2) why do the bakkins need to be used instead of clean water or plain moon shine? I get that it is a mix of alcohol and water, and probably keeps more water and lets alcohol pass at the gas/liquid interface. but could some one explain?
I LOVE TO HEAR POPCORN LAUGH,I LAUGH JUS' KAUSE HE LAUGHS
So nice
@daryljo1 I have seen it. It's a fine documentary that does use quite a bit of this footage. I prefer this one though. More footage, more stories, more Popcorn Sutton and J.B. Rader. This is my favorite film.
Right on
Is this real? I didn't know people still live and dress this way? Interesting!
Yes and the best Liquor you could drink not at all nothing like you get at the Liquor Store he was The Best he's using copper anything else could cause you to go Blind or Kidney failure
@@sherrilltonihka5594 that was from using lead solder. Stills can be made from stainless as well. Copper is just easier to work with(more malleable)
He owned an old junk shop about a half mile from me. Yeah, he was real.
She had 2 tablespoons a night. Now as I grew he would say there's sosos car I one day asked him how he knew he said it was parked there because he has a still on that creek. Every where he Gould find clean water he
Fascinating.
its methanol and shiners know about it. Thats exactly why he is smellin it...smelling it wont kill you.
He stood against the establishment
How about english sub-titles for people who don't understand the dialect?
It removes some impurities, but unfortunately will also remove some of the natural flavors that you want to keep...so it's a double edged sword. It's known as "polishing".
Not the original documentary...DAMN!
LMAOHAHAHAH omg funniest thing ever. you made my day it was okay but now better thank you!~
Thank you, make sens as wood charcoal is a natural filter !!!
TNX so much bud !!
Fire oil or fusel oil / tail the last part of run is not fit beyond a certain point . Heads / hearts / tails / last part of run at beginning has some congeners that may add taste / hearts is slightly sweet but not much of anything unless you add some late heads and some tails .
Moonshiners is an awesome show!
Its also pretty fake though.... Popcorn and JB are the real deal thats about it
Any idea on how you can tell the difference between the "head" and the "prime?" Or how much of the first bit to throw out?
Watch the temperature drop
I have seen J B on Moonshiners
@WildlifeSeriaLKiller ,What if you dont have any back ends, could you not use the thump keg and run it straight through the worm? and maybe save the back ends from that run to use next time. Or could you do like demnlord666 said and use moonshine in the thump keg? Thank for posting these videos by the way, love watching Popcorn I already watched these several times..
The letha he talks about is my great aunt she was one hell of a woman greatly missed and loved
I bet she was awesome!!
Was she just a friend of popcorns or?