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run off verb phrase To distill (whiskey, brandy); make (sorghum molasses, syrup, etc.).

1939 Hall Coll (Newport TN) We used fifty pounds of sugar to a bushel of meal and ran it off a dozen times or so. 2006 WV Encycl 496 The first step is to sprout the corn, then crush the sprouted grain and mix with water. This mixture, called mash, is fermented in open barrels. If moonshiners have yeast and use it, the fermentation takes up to four days; if they don’t have yeast and if the weather is cool, fermentation takes longer, maybe two weeks. When fermentation is complete, the mildly alcoholic liquid, now called beer, is ready to distill or “run off.”