Hi All, This situation has been causing me a bit of grief for some time now. I've built several pot stills - some with flat covers, but my first still used an...
Hi lads, There's a local aperitif here in Sarlat in The South of France it's called Sarlanoix it's only 16 % Abv but boy it's nice. Here's a link:- ...
Broadening the base for ethanol: An ARS researcher has developed a new yeast that makes ethanol from both five-carbon and six-carbon sugars without needing...
I had a recent J. Alfred Prufrock inspired discussion with "jamesonbeam1" concerning using whole lemons as opposed to lemon juice to invert sugar and would...
Most rums use the cognac method of aging - oak and caramel. But Zapaca rum (Guatemala) uses a method borrowed from American and Scottish whiskey/whisky...
Just reading about the cherry mixture. I might be able to obtain some (reasonably large quantities) second grade strawberries (strawberry season in australia...
I whas assambling the newer colom and pulled a ss scrubber trought is for pakking. The colom is ony 22mm in diameter and air coold on two places with a...
I came into some cherries and decided to make "wine". They were too hard to just put straight through the crusher-destemer I use for grapes, so I froze them...
Hi Group, although about 20% of this group are from Australia, there are a few people in Western Australia distilling alone with the help of this group. I am...
Hi Guys I have recently gained a new convert to the art of distilling, he wants to start a neutral wash, as a starter in this Endeavour. I however, have lost...
I am just getting into this hobby and i need to know if i can use a light dimmer switch to control the heat on around a 1000 watt immersion heater.I seen one...
Hello all, I have a lot of compost. A couple of cubic metres at least. I was checking the temperature the other day and it is 65 C (150 F). Thats pretty hot. I...
Do you think that with a 20 liter boiler that a 1 liter thumper, half filled
with mash would be capable of getting 75-85% alcohol, or would a larger
volume in...
Almost everyone knows that a still has a boiler at one end, and a condenser at the other end. Joining these two together is a conduit, to transport fluids...
Hello group, Harry mentioned this some time back... Shotguns as a final condenser: Shotguns do perform better as final product coolers, where they replace the...
Hey everybody, I have a pony keg that I use as my boiler and a 10.5" mixing bowl that sits on top of the pony keg. The mixing bowl has a hole in it with a...
I mixed 18lbs of sugar into 8gal of boiling water. Waited 1 hour and stirred in two packets of Altec Turboyeast and two packets of Liqure-Kwick smothing agent....
 A new and much-needed place for group members to buy, sell and trade stills and distilling related paraphernalia. Display of pricing, PHOTOS etc. is...
Hi Group, I want to build another shotgun condenser. The first one works very well and is made from 100% copper. I have some brass sheet 4mm thick and was...
