I am trying to get hold of a half a dozen or so silver brazing rods for copper brazing. I need to get the cadmium free variety. Can anybody in OZ tell me where...
Hi there all! I am so excited to have found this group. There appears to be lots of great info. Here is my question... A friend and I are trying to research...
Hi all, having got the news that Harry has kids, one of my visions has suddenly been smashed. I always pictured Harry as some kind of philosopher type wise man...
In a message dated 6/19/2005 10:14:20 PM Eastern Daylight Time, lmemarine@... writes: Good to see you back on line Suit. Lmemarine Thanks, I've been sick...
With reference to a recent thread, some people seem to be making large amounts, not all for personal consumption. This raises the ire of the group (and...
If anyone is interested, i have a spare length of copper pipe. It is 54mmOD, 51mmID (1.5mm wall) and about 1100mm long. Its too big for my still, so i dont...
Hi all, I found these links today. i certainly hadn't come across them before. Chinese distilling: http://www.sytu.edu.cn/zhgjiu/umain.htm Lead poisoning from...
i made up a sugar mash following the instructions carefully on the packet of turbo yeast,the temperature has stayed around 23 to 25 degrees and according to...
Greetings In the photos section does anyone have an idea on how much that would cost to make a double helix? If the condenser was mass produced would anyone...
ok i heading out on the bike for chicago il be gone a week or so im changing my mail to once a day to try not to bounce, hay any body want to hook up drop me a...
In the past I have used Turbo Yeast for my Rum wash after reading posts of the past few weeks I have decided to have a go with bakers yeast. If I have a wash...
Hi all, acetobacter isn't the biggest headache in malt mashes by a long way. Malt itself is covered with lactobaccilus and butyric acid bacteria. Both of...
Harry, (zooming now learnt!) When you said you tried the late cutting method in an aged "raw sugar wash" what did you mean? What source of sugar? And did you...
I have completed my first still and had to share with the group. First, let me say that the cost estimates I had seen came nowhere close to the actual cost of...
Harry, when reading books in the tastylime collection, a magnifying function is at the top of the pages. It doesn't funtion for me (I want to shrink so as not ...
There's been a fair bit of controversy recently on the do's & don'ts of making rum from molasses. Not having found anything too outstanding in the sites and...
Okay, on my second try I used a 4.20 sugar wash and 24 turbo, I ran it through the pot stull and at about 193 degrees it started coming out. After throwing...
My mach doesn't seem to be clearing. Does anyone know why that could be? Is it pssible that my airlock is not in tight enough? What happens if air does get...
Here's the challenge: I make a pretty decent Zinfandel wine but have never done any distilling. I do have a traditional copper pot still from Italy, but have...
A friend of mine left me an unfinished 500 g pack of Lalvin EC-1118 yeast. What I did was I tried to beef-up my supermarket moonshine recipe. EC-1118 is...
So sometime in the near future I plan on building a still, the plan so far is to make a 3 inch diameter still 3.5 to 4 feet tall (a bit taller than average,...
I have been trying to ferment a rum wash of approcimately 50/50 sugar/molasses. I have not seen much activity even though I used a 24 hour turbo yeast. I...
For mashes where you would want to ise an airlock, what about using a rubber stopper with a hole that would normally take the airlock, but in place of the...
Hi, I just purchased some barley from the local mill that they claim is "barley malt", however the label on the bag only says "barley" and has nothing about it...
A minor error in the crossflow condenser files at the library. Pages 11 and 12 had listed 12.7mm x .91mm pipe as 1/4" x 20G pipe. It should have read 12.7mm...
Does anyone know where a petition is for the legalization of home distilling in the US? I was told it was in the files section of this group, but didn't find...
Hi, I tried out my new column yesterday. 1.4 meters of packing with an eliptical collector and 1380W boiler. I took off 96+% spirit at about 10ml per min. My...
