Is anyone familiar with a web site or discussion group devoted to the making of eau de vie that is in English?...
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Mel Robinson
mellow1@...
Jan 5, 2001 3:49 am
Hello Just uploaded an old Irish tune called "The Moonshiner" to the Egroups website for new_distillers, sung by Bill Craig. Enjoy Regards Mel It is easily...
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Matt
spore@...
Jan 5, 2001 2:49 pm
... anyone actually decode this song? My computer keeps bowing to the M$oft wma format protection despite my best efforts.... :) -- ... Matthew @ psibercom ...
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Tony & Elle Ackland
Tony.Ackland@...
Jan 5, 2001 8:15 pm
Heres some more advice from Don ..... **************** snip ************** One of your e-mailers had suggested or been told that taking the bung out of a...
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Tim Sanders
trs1818@...
Jan 5, 2001 9:52 pm
I am in the process of making a beginner reflux still out of bits I had laying around the house and I have run into a small problem. Reflux column is about...
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pdanker1@...
Jan 6, 2001 12:37 am
I have a pressure cooker. 36" ca. 1 meter column, 2" ca. 25mm diameter......
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Tony & Elle Ackland
Tony.Ackland@...
Jan 6, 2001 3:27 am
... I'm guessing just a typo here ... 50 mm is 2 inches. How do you heat it ? Stovetop ? Tony...
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tarvus
tarvus@...
Jan 6, 2001 2:15 pm
... had ... column ... 12mm ... column to ... in the ... then ... But I am ... sufficient ... Tim, I did basically what you are suggesting but with one ...
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pdanker1@...
Jan 6, 2001 9:11 pm
Thanks Tony I had it in my mind that 25mm was 2". WRONG! My column is 2" thus making it ca. 50mm for the metric group. Next time i'll allow y'all to convert. ...
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Bruno M.
brunom1@...
Jan 7, 2001 12:35 pm
Hello all, I was behind in reading the digests from this fine group, In digest 352, I found that members talkt about using CREOSOTE. Now I am a chemist and I...
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Peter Damen
dambasti@...
Jan 7, 2001 2:35 pm
Summery: When you have a reflux cooler on top of a packed column inside, you have to regulate the small flowrate of the reflux cooling watersystem, to get...
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Mel Robinson
mellow1@...
Jan 7, 2001 3:14 pm
Sorry! Sorry! Sorry! "The Moonshiner" song I uploaded to new-distillers a few days ago will not work, because it was licensed encoded, I have replaced that...
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Tony & Elle Ackland
Tony.Ackland@...
Jan 7, 2001 5:55 pm
Thanks for the warning Bruno, As it turns out, I wasn't able to find some easily anyhow. The local chemist stopped stocking it about 10 years ago. Tony...
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Mos&Liz
brie@...
Jan 7, 2001 11:53 pm
Hi fellow distillers, my name is Mos and are new to the art of distilling and your group. I would like to know if it is OK to store white spirit at about 40%...
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Tek
sspence@...
Jan 8, 2001 12:40 am
Generation of Diethyl Ether in an Ethanol Vehicle System for Cold- Start Assistance. Tomoko Kito and Scott Cowley Ethanol is a clean burning alternative fuel...
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Pete Sayers
brubarn@...
Jan 8, 2001 1:18 am
Mos, Pete here from The Brewers Barn in New Zealand. Yes it's quite safe to store alcohol in stainless, how ever it is more aesthetic stored in glass.So ...
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Andrew
physkid@...
Jan 8, 2001 7:37 pm
Tony- Just wanted to say thanks for the forwards from Don. Very informative, and of great interest to me as someone interested in making liquers without...
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Mos&Liz
brie@...
Jan 9, 2001 1:41 am
Dear group, Hope you are all well. Todays question is to do with reflux still temperature. Is the temperature suposed to stay constant as measured on the...
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Ackland, Tony (CALNZAS)
Tony.Ackland@...
Jan 9, 2001 2:47 am
Mos, The temperature of the vapour is directly related to its purity. See http: <http://www.geocities.com/kiwi_distiller/image/alcohol_curve.jpg> ...
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Pete Sayers
brubarn@...
Jan 9, 2001 3:24 am
Hi Mos Pete from The Brewers Barn here. Depending on what type of still you run, a "rule of thumb" is that when the cooling water is exiting the hose, if it...
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Tony & Elle Ackland
Tony.Ackland@...
Jan 10, 2001 4:55 am
Just been sampling a wee imitation Brandy I've been working on for the last year, and I'm quite happy with it. I got the recipe from Toms site :...
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Tony & Elle Ackland
Tony.Ackland@...
Jan 10, 2001 5:04 am
Stolen from "The Language of Whisky Tasting" at the Scotch Malt Whisky Society ..:
http://www.smws.com/english/archives/misc/chemist/chemist.html
(while...
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Tony & Elle Ackland
Tony.Ackland@...
Jan 10, 2001 5:19 am
... duh - it must have more kick than what i thought ... I meant Ray (Toms) Tony...
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dougandsharon@...
Jan 10, 2001 7:04 am
G'day all I recently put a brew on a type of carbon I had peviously never used Spirits Unlimited euro bulk pac The brew was run thru 2 coffee filter papers as...
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ucdzbt@...
Jan 10, 2001 7:15 am
Does anyone know if using a chrome-plated brass sink strainer as a column mount will cause any corrosion problems when it's attached to an aluminum pot and a...
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pilch@...
Jan 10, 2001 1:16 pm
Matt, sorry about the delay in posting the photos of my filtering system but I was hoping my new set up would be ready by now but alas not to be. I should be...
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pilch@...
Jan 10, 2001 1:20 pm
Matt, would you like to talk to me one on one? if so drop me a line at pilch@... Pilch....
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Ackland, Tony (CALNZAS)
Tony.Ackland@...
Jan 10, 2001 7:55 pm
... I've had some success using cotton wool balls - either in the older style filter (a push on tube that fitted to the end of a 2L PET bottle - sorta like...
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Peter Damen
dambasti@...
Jan 10, 2001 8:28 pm
Photos of my still-equipment: Peter1: design of my packed column with a reflux cooler on top inside. Peter2: photos of the packed column with a refux cooler on...
