Hi there Distillers, I'm starting to get back to designing and fabricating a new still and would very much appreciate some advice on water bath design. There...
Had a pest exterminating company seal my home, Old adobe brick. The material they used to plug the holes is the stuff that's needed for the reflux column....
Hello all- well I've been planning a tequila endeavor for a while and the stars have finally aligned, so to speak. I finally put a must (wort? wash? :-) into ...
Gday guys, Been having some trouble locating a needle valve locally (NSW AU). I might be looking in the wrong places. What is the conventional use for a needle...
I have a simple reflux still. I want to make a rum which is similar to the bundaberg (aust)variety based on a mollasses/sugar mix. My query is what should the...
Hi there, I'm interested in making my own Champagne Cocktails by infusing fruits with alcohol and then mixing it with the champagne, however I'm very familiar...
Does anybody know if you can get a foodgrade coating or paint that you could apply to say a mild steel bolt which will be in contact with water up to 100C? I...
I am running a Bokabob mini-still using a 20 qt ss pot. I am looking to put the mini-still in a beer keg (15.5 gal) but I may wait and just build a new tower....
Greetings, I have a photo posted that shows what I found at my local ACE Hardware store. Look under GWN in the photos section. If you want I can send it...
I have an old pot still that is stainless steel with a fan cooled copper radiator for a cooling coil. the copper radiator has lead solder joints, lots of...
Gday guys, ARC sounds great... I was thinking about an electronic version with a temp probe in the column somewhere input to a microcontroller to control...
O.K. members ... I've read all I could find on carbon filtering. I DO NOT want to babysit a funnel all day to ensure that it doesn't run dry and air gets into...
A while back I burned some corn in my stainless boiler, I have removed all the chunks but still have a horrible burned corn smell. I thought I recently saw a...
My wife forwarded this to me and I thought yall might get a laugh out of it. Suitcase The Man of The House... The husband had just finished reading the book, ...
I have re-designed my condenser and am ready to distill with a modified version of Harry's X flow. My distilling experience to date has been with sugar washes...
To start off, I am new here, I have posted a couple times, but never have introduced myself, so Hello All.. My question is: In a reflux still, what is the...
I put in a mixed wash tonight hope it turns out ok. I had 10lbs. of left over dried mollasses and my wife had 2lbs. brown sugar and 2 lbs. powdered sugar left...
Thought I would share an experiment with you all. Did an interesting run last night. Had a gallon of an old molasses wash I had been sitting on for a month or...
hi folks, i am building a fractionating still, and so far everything goes pretty well. but i am having problems finding a really nice thermometer for it, the...
Hello Peoples, Please be advised that there are pics of my newest nautical creation, namely the "Copper Periscope". This is the follow on from the "Stainless...
Hi all, Just posted some photo's of my recently completed VM/LM still and new boiler. I get around 95% at about 350-400 ml/hr in VM mode. The boiler is made...
Good morning I am seriously wanting to become involved in home distilling and have been doing a lot of reading and research. I am amazed at the amount of time...
I do consulting work with Oregon wineries and a local distillery. Below are links to web page of music listened to by winemakers as they work away in their...
To all the newbies out there. Be aware of the dangers of this hobby. Mainly the lack of information, before you start to make a still or distill alcohol. READ...
Dedicated to helping other advanced distillers golbally I will be using whiskey yeast with ag along with nutrients (on order) Are there any other yeast worth...
I will be using whiskey yeast with ag along with nutrients ( on order ) Are there any other yeast worth experimenting with? What should the ph of the water be?...
Got some questions for you experts out there. Prior to being a distiller I was a fairly big wine drinker. Always hated wine that was served too cold because...
OK, Basically it is an 18 gallon beer keg as a boiler standing upright fired by a 3 ring concentric gas burner. On top of the keg is the now standard inverted...
