re: anyone on here ever have any experience in the manufacturing of moonshine?

you can do a cheap setup very easily. Are you just wanting your own distilled strong stuff? we used to do it back in college, called it liquid retard

You can just buy some sugar and mix with water, then add the yeast mixed with your favorite fruit juice. Ive used apple juice, then let it ferment

as for a stil, We made it out of copper tubing and pipe fited to our sink, then retro fited an old pressure cooker to the copper tubing