Sorry, but unless you're alluding to some sort of formal courses, you're unlikely to find lessons in making moonshine or other illicit spirits..... i.e. The...
I am tweAking my still and I'm looking for some opinions. I started with a 1" wide 18" tall column packed with copper mesh leading to a T at the top with a...
I have some thumper questions. I've searched and I have found plenty of posts advising the addition of thumpers and what they are supposed to do. My question...
I think that what you may have built is steam distillation of vodka and not a thumper. To be a thumper, it has to re-condense your pot still vapors and then,...
Hi, Chem-E Shiner, It should work for you , although it's a bit small and you know that. I haven't looked up thermal conductivity of glass compared to copper,...
S (if I may call you that), While I'm not a thumper user, the principles are pretty well known. Your still output will be condensed in the thumper, heating the...
Well though I too am new, I feel adding Vodka to thumper amounts to adding direct alcohol to your final product, as alcohol content from thumper evaporates...
I am no thumper expert either, but I do recall posts stating that the heads goes into one temper and the tails into another, if you only have one thumper, just...
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Feb 4, 2012 9:25 pm
Hi there, I've got a batch of Z-Bob's all grain single malt recipe from his book. It's been fermenting for about 3 weeks. Finished up good and dry, right...
Hoser, I've never tried FermCap, but lots of people on the forum use it. If I've got a foaming problem (and yes, malt extract does foam) I'll drop a piece of...
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Some Hoser
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Feb 4, 2012 11:27 pm
... Hey Bob, Thanks for the followup. Unfortunately there's no fine tuning available on this still. It's just turn it on and go. The foam control has been...
I'm in the process of assembling a new electric boiler and I've a question about the effects of the heating element gasket material. The electic elements that...
I've only used distillers conditioner with sugar turbo's so wouldn't know if it affects the flavours, but suspect not as it would be left in the still. ...
Hi E, Buy yourself a dark coloured sheet of heat resistant silicon from the kitchen supply section in your local supermarket it's food grade safe and as said...
I'm new to distilling but I assume that your "Easystill" is electric, am I correct? If so and it only has an off-on switch with no graduation in between,...
Hi all, I had heard that using the dunder from your last run of rum was to be used for your new batch... So I took a gallon of dunder, and mixed it with 10 lbs...
... Dunder use: No more than 30% of the TOTAL LIQUID. The rest is clean fresh water. Reasons to use: Main use:Acidify (pH4-5) the wort (pron. 'wert') to kill...
New to the group. Building my first valved reflux. Couldn't find answers to these in the search: How cold should my condensor water be? Has anyone had any...
Hi rhinodust, Ideally the temperatures in and out of the condenser should be as cold in and as cold out as you can get it. But that never happens it’s...
Your input water technically just needs to be below the dew point for the vapor in your column. The colder it is, generally speaking, the better efficiency you...
Any idea how low of an ambient temperature a distillation can be completed successfully? Of course, the column will be insulated. Concerned about low outdoor...
Distillation only requires vaporization of the beer. Theoretically, you don't need to boil your beer; however it may take several lifetimes to evaporate...
Ed, Although the US Pacific Northwest has a fairly temperate climate, I distill in ambient outdoors temperature, and have had temperature/distillation...
Wow! Thanks for all the replies. I can see I will learn a lot from you guys. Thanks for reminding me about the dew point. I should have payed more attention in...
Hi rhinodust, Lead free solder by it's very name (lead) is a soft metal solder join and as such a butt (end to side) join and isn't very strong. But if you...
I agree with Geoff. Silver solder is not that expensive, provides a stronger joint and I won't have to worry about unknown solvent effects on the bonding glue....
Whats the best type of sugar to use for the simplest wash? Regular cane sugar, Powdered cane sugar, or Brown cane sugar? i havent found an answer yet in the...
"Whats the best type of sugar to use for the simplest wash?" The simple answer to your question is Raw sugar! The reason why is, Raw sugar has some molasses...
To my way of thinking, for a simple sugar wash, the "best" sugar is the cheapest one you can find - usually a generic brand granulated beet sugar. 1.6 lb of...
From some practice . If up have acess to yeast nutients .then use white sugar .reason is that some brown sugar especially from brazil tends to give the...
