Distilling is against the law federally? I, uh know someone that is not me that has been openly telling people about using a stovetop distillation unit, they are like 150 bucks or less. Normally I make more wine type brews until I can find a good source of barley which I plan on malting myself. But might find some bulk potatoes and some amalayse and make some hooch. I mean the other guy might not me obviously.