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Still Designs & PlansCheck out the Photos of Stills section to at least see what they should be constructed like.There are some excellent designs by Alex (Bokakob) in Bokakob designs.  Both Pot & Reflux stills are relatively simple and both produce liquor. The difference is just that for a reflux still you have a packed column before the condensor, and you get some of the vapour to condense and drip back through the packing. You do this if you want to make clean/pure/tasteless alcohol of around 75%-96% purity for adding flavours to, or making gin/vodkas etc. If however you just want to make straight forward whiskey / schnapps etc with some flavour, you can use either a pot or a reflux still. An interesting note is that some copper in the vapour path is benefical. See the Materials page for more details why. Some people who have built all-stainless steel stills have found there to still be some smell +/or odour in their neutral spirits, which goes away when they put some copper in (usually replacing the scrubber packing with copper scrubbers).
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