Home Distiller

We have arrived, good flight , smooth flight & great service , thank you qantas.air lines .not so great with us airlines double booked seating & so, late departures .Dallas airport was big hot & noisey, just what I expected it to be.We are now in virginia beach The weather is perfect my ...

Well Monday is the big day We leave australia 1.30 pm aust time & arrive 11 30 pm Virginia time . Our bags have been packed & repacked about a dozen times as the wife decides on my travelling clothes , I would love to take a couple of bottles of my own products ( uncle jessies sour mash &...

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Re refilling gas bottle cost try Rays outdoor or Bcf they are both abou 2/3 rds that cost .Bottles must be in date .I use a camping & fishing store near me .These are refill your own bottle only outlets.
Allan

Great stuff , ive only got 3 weeks in us & as the daughter being there is our motiveation & main accomadation cost we can afford the trip . The stuff around Virginia will be our main destination ,The wife has decreed we will visit Niagra falls before leaving . As it only cost an extra $300 e...

sirry about the crappy post i am trying to get used to a tablet instead of my computer
these chinese must have much smaller fingers than i do
newts

it appears no suggestionstmaybe peoplevthink its a scam lucky my daughter will have some civil war sites sorted out for us to visit .the 5hrs we spend at dallis airport waiting for connecting flight to virginia beach on arrival will be drag after 24hrs of travel from perth in aus gto sydney then to ...

in oct i will be leaving australia to visit my daughter in virginia beach.va are gthere any sight that will interest a 71 yold home distiller.nearby thank you in advance allan

pinto had a plan for a small copper still here a few years ago .do a search for him or type fustrum in the search there is info there

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I have just returned from an 18 mth motor homing trip around aust, to save time I reguarely fermented my wash while driving.I noticed no difference in time till 'dry' it always done with an air lock to stop any introduction of extra air or bugs etc. always an ujsm and about 8% never a failure and al...

I have been travelling on an extended trip around aust.Currentley in the nthn Rivers area of Nsw. Ihave found that a 10ltr batch .of ujsm. works great for me while travelling,This gives me fast,clean ferments that allow me to distll them at my leasure. My wash consists of 2 kg corn to2kg sugar added...

LThanks for the replies, if I cant get a good batch going I will try it out on the grand daughters boy friend. Any thing that ruins his sex life cant be a bad. thing.
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coming from aus & being an age that has only drunk their tea hot & black. I find myself unable to make an effective drink, Could sone kind yank please give a struggling assie a recipie or three. Colour me embarresed, I can make a whiskey to match most bought but cant make flavoured cold tea....

I started with their reflux still. mods that do improve it are 1 increase length of column, either cut & shut a 1mtr piece of copper to orriginal column or add a 1 mtr x 50 mm ext to base of column 2 fill column with scrub buds 3 reduce power to still 4 replumb cooling lines so you can increase ...

i find my sugar washes chage from the 5.5 to 6 % that works best for me and my water, to 3to 4 % as the wash progressess.I also no longer use a standard tall fermenter, instead I use a lightley covered shallow 44ltr rectangular toy box as suggested by birdwatcher. My sugar washes now finish in 3 or ...

my daughter turnedup st home with her hire car that had been graffiteed with textra a simple wipe with a heads dampened rag and it was gone.
I also use heads as a sanitiser for my hydrometer and spoon.
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its christmas eve in perth w.a
big meal cooked for wife & i by daughter ,grandkids asleep and dreaming of santa. life is very contented here
My wish is for all & your loved ones have the safest & best end of year yet.
Newts
(i think im' getting politically correct)

A cheap method is to pretend your fermenter is a park person and wrap it in old newspaper. it works for me, just leave a space to read the thermometer.

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A quiery on wheat germ is it the same as the pollard used as a stock feed
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Matt are you sure your spirit hydrometer is not cracked and letting liquid in , it happened to me
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Hi Rangaz ,I hail from down the kwinana freeway, Rockingham area
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Thanks for your replies, as I will only be risking a few dollars in consumables and a little time,I will treat my backset as well as i can and run it
Regards to all newts

I am getting organised for my next round australia trip .
I wish to take 5 litres of UJSM back set with me.I think I can keep its temp down to about 20 c, and wish to mash abrew every month or so,
Can any one tell me if it will stay viable.
I will be pleased to recieve any advice
Regards Newts

When searching for dextross found my local stock feed store sold the same brand and quality dextross as my home brew shop
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I agree with Rangas."Its a hobby", do you factor in your time when playing a round of golf. How much do we charge ourself for the time taken to travel to the bottle shop for the bottle we needed if distilling was not our hobby. Gee that was a dumb statement, trouble is I wasted to much the...

After 5 runs of U J S M I had enough whiskey for my use. My next requirement was rum Left a 1 1/2" layer of corn and yeast from my last wash in fermenter, added 2 liters of molassis and 4 kgs of brown sugar to corn back setof last distillation. I added this when cooled and airated to fermenter ...

Hi all , My wife has just been diaganosed as a diabetic. Her favourite drink is southern comfort that I have made with the Still spirits southern haze blend. That is now of the radar ,can any body please come up with a low sugar alternative. We would also appreciate some other low sugar drinks a swe...

Hi, I too was unhappy with the out put, T tried packing the column, it flooded and chocked allowing vapour to escape fron the lid seal. I have since made a voltage controller using the plans in in this forum. I am now able to collect 83-85% then temp rises into mid 80s c xnd I collect tails to redis...

My nomad son arrived home unexpected . I showed him this thread, We visited our local Dick smiths . (1) 400 v 15 amp triac $5 . (16) 5 watt 1k2 ohm resistors (soldered together top & bottom in a open square.$5 50.! aluminium project box $15 (1) 240 500 watt light dimmer $ ? We wired it up using ...

Thanks for the ideas, Iam using a !000 watt element on a 1 1/2 '' in line still .
Will the diode be to small for that size? The heat sink & switch make good sense.
Regards Allan