I would be interested in knowing why the pressure cooker could not be aluminum. I would guess that almost no aluminum would ever be in the evaporated alcohol in the "pot", at least at the temperatures and pressures I believe you would want to have for proper distillation. I don"t see where a "poison" would be made. Can you explain the chemistry?
On the other hand, all of the home canner pressure cookers I have come across seem a bit small for a still "pot". They would produce very small quantities of drinkable liquor for each "pot". As I understand it, it is very important to not try to use the first distillate, as it probably has some methanol in it. The part that might have deadly methanol, you have to throw away or use some other way besides drinking it. So the net amount of "drinkable" liquor would be quite small.
I have tried a bit of white lightning. It has a LOT of kick, but fairly little taste. I would not call what I tried whiskey, but it was more like the cheapest, poorest vodka I ever had. Whiskey gets most of its flavor from the process of aging the liquor in oak barrels that have been charred inside. This is a long process...not something the average homeowner could do, and probably no one can do in a very short time.
What others have written about BATF is gospel. No sense of humor at all. I would suggest talking to a lawyer with knowledge of the specific laws before setting up any kind of a liquor still.
In some places in Europe lots of people do small scale distillation, producing mostly brandy-type liquor for their own consumption. But it is either legal, or at least tolerated there. Not here! I would be very worried about huge legal problems resulting from any distillation experiment.
And like I wrote above, the white lightning I have tried was pretty crummy liquor, not something that compared favorably to any of the CHEAP legal brands I have tried.
I suggest just legally buying your liquor and enjoying it, rather than having to worry about a swat team raiding your home and maybe sending you to jail, fining you a fortune, and maybe even confiscating your property. Good luck!!!
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