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- Wed Aug 15, 2018 7:52 am
- Forum: Flavoring and Aging
- Topic: The Badmotivator Bain-Marie and Oak Barrel
- Replies: 1218
- Views: 214642
Re: The Badmotivator Bain-Marie and Oak Barrel
I was reading the American Distilling Institute magazine and came across an ad for a company selling a commercial version of the Badmo barrels. Stainless steel drums with removable clamp-on wooden heads. Inspired by this thread, no doubt. Here is the website of the company. Information is limited on...
- Fri May 18, 2018 5:26 pm
- Forum: Related Electric Accessories
- Topic: Wiring a still auger
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1439
Re: Wiring a still auger
You need a variable frequency drive if you want to run the agitator at different speeds. That's a 1 HP motor. What type of power do you have available near the still site? 120V? 240V? Most variable frequency will be able to convert single or two phase power so they can take a 120V or 240V input. Som...
- Wed Apr 25, 2018 3:10 pm
- Forum: Continuous Stripping stills
- Topic: Continuous Stripping Column Build
- Replies: 23
- Views: 8214
Re: Continuous Stripping Column Build
Got the still mounted to the floor and in place. Still lack a little bit of piping for the various pumps and a little electrical for some of the controls. Maiden voyage is Sunday.
- Wed Apr 25, 2018 3:07 pm
- Forum: Continuous Stripping stills
- Topic: Continuous Stripping Column Build
- Replies: 23
- Views: 8214
- Wed Mar 14, 2018 12:00 pm
- Forum: Drinks and Drinking
- Topic: German Corn Whiskey/Brandy
- Replies: 0
- Views: 1265
German Corn Whiskey/Brandy
Today I received in the mail a brochure from a man who had recently traveled to Germany. He had visited a distillery there that produces Lagerkorn. The name of the distillery is Sasse Feinbrennerei. Best I can tell is that they produce a corn based whiskey distilled very much like American corn whis...
- Tue Mar 13, 2018 5:27 pm
- Forum: Continuous Stripping stills
- Topic: Continuous Stripping Column Build
- Replies: 23
- Views: 8214
Re: Continuous Stripping Column Build
Just uploaded from browser and edited original post.
- Tue Mar 13, 2018 12:42 pm
- Forum: Continuous Stripping stills
- Topic: Continuous Stripping Column Build
- Replies: 23
- Views: 8214
Re: Continuous Stripping Column Build
Lots of parts arrived today. Here's a rough mockup of the column.
- Sat Mar 10, 2018 8:20 pm
- Forum: Continuous Stripping stills
- Topic: Continuous Stripping Column Build
- Replies: 23
- Views: 8214
Re: Continuous Stripping Column Build
8" diameter columnMoonBreath wrote:Beins 3/4" holes, did you go with 10" diameter?
- Sat Mar 10, 2018 11:15 am
- Forum: Continuous Stripping stills
- Topic: Continuous Stripping Column Build
- Replies: 23
- Views: 8214
Re: Continuous Stripping Column Build
I've put a picture of the plates below. These were just a mockup out of aluminum as a test of the tooling. The real plates will be made from copper. These were cut on a waterjet. You can see that they have very large holes, 3/4" is what is shown here. Dual flow plates are intentionally ineffici...
- Wed Mar 07, 2018 4:43 pm
- Forum: Continuous Stripping stills
- Topic: Continuous Stripping Column Build
- Replies: 23
- Views: 8214
Re: Continuous Stripping Column Build
I've gotten my beer preheater cut and fitted, now I just need to solder it all up. It's basically a 50' long liebig. Cold mash will flow through a 1/2" inner pipe and the hot still bottoms will flow through an outer 3/4" jacket. I've got two flexible impeller pumps that are fitted up with ...
- Tue Mar 06, 2018 2:18 pm
- Forum: Continuous Stripping stills
- Topic: semi continuous column design
- Replies: 38
- Views: 7621
Re: semi continuous column design
I think your biggest issue is fermentation. You'll need to process something like 1000-1500 gallons of fermented wash per day. Your column will need probably need to be around 10 to 12" on diameter and maybe 15-20' tall. As has been said, continuous columns need steady operating conditions. You...
- Mon Feb 26, 2018 9:29 am
- Forum: Resources and Reviews
- Topic: Legal Members.....where ya at!?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1752
Re: Legal Members.....where ya at!?
Rich Grain Distilling Co. located in Canton, MS is my place. My products are sold in Mississippi, and in the next few weeks will be available in Memphis, TN and New Orleans, LA markets as well. You may have a hard time getting the legal guys to chime in. If they are like me, they are busy as hell ru...
- Sat Feb 17, 2018 4:12 pm
- Forum: Still Related Hardware
- Topic: Changing Spirit Run
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1461
Re: Changing Spirit Run
Gin and whiskey distilled on the grain can most definitely leave oils on the inside of still piping that could carry over to the next run. However, most of them would get dissolved and cleaned out with the fores and heads of the next run in my experience. Since you've been making rum I don't think y...
- Sat Feb 10, 2018 1:26 pm
- Forum: Continuous Stripping stills
- Topic: Continuous Stripping Column Build
- Replies: 23
- Views: 8214
Re: Continuous Stripping Column Build
According to the calculations and simulations, to strip out 8% ABV preheated mash only requires 3 total theoretical plates. However, theoretical and actual are two different things. According to our research, most stripping plates are only 20-40% efficient, so in reality we'll need maybe 12-15 disti...
- Sat Feb 10, 2018 1:05 pm
- Forum: Continuous Stripping stills
- Topic: Continuous Stripping Column Build
- Replies: 23
- Views: 8214
Re: Continuous Stripping Column Build
PRO II Simulation Results.png Updating the build thread a little. The team did a preliminary mass balance of the system and performed a simulation of the stripping column using PRO/II modeling software. The little round symbol with a crooked line in it represents the beer or mash preheater that we ...
- Sat Feb 10, 2018 11:35 am
- Forum: Continuous Stripping stills
- Topic: Continuous Stripping Column Build
- Replies: 23
- Views: 8214
- Sat Feb 10, 2018 7:54 am
- Forum: Novice Forum Graveyard
- Topic: What is this stuff?
- Replies: 22
- Views: 6296
Re: What is this stuff?
Shiny, metallic looking film that then becomes black and oily when touched is common with all grain distillation, as well as little black oily flecks in the distillate. There's multiple threads on it. Here's another thread discussing it.
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- Thu Feb 08, 2018 4:08 pm
- Forum: Other Hobbies and Projects
- Topic: Show us your homemade tools
- Replies: 15
- Views: 2729
Re: Show us your homemade tools
Homemade labeling machine on right, expensive purchased labeling machine on left. I built the labeler on the right out of some old floor boards, an Allen wrench, rubber band, and some old bottles. The labeler isn't adjustable and only does one job, puts a specific sized label around the neck of a sp...
- Mon Feb 05, 2018 10:49 am
- Forum: Rum
- Topic: Question for you rum guys
- Replies: 22
- Views: 3007
Re: Question for you rum guys
I pump off the bottom, or mid way down in the tank below anything that is growing on top.
- Thu Jan 25, 2018 6:05 am
- Forum: Novice Distillers
- Topic: copper remains dirty
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1148
Re: copper remains dirty
Did you mix the citric acid and caustic together? If so you neutralized them both and it wouldn't clean anything.
- Wed Jan 24, 2018 11:44 am
- Forum: Resources and Reviews
- Topic: Flavors and their sources: Beer Fault Guide
- Replies: 11
- Views: 1781
Re: Flavors and their sources: Beer Fault Guide
There's already lots of flavor wheels and guides that have positive and negative aromas and flavors associated with spirits, the underlying chemical compound responsible, and where in the process it comes from. I'm including a link to an image below, it's too large to upload directly here. http://17...
- Tue Jan 23, 2018 3:43 pm
- Forum: Continuous Stripping stills
- Topic: Continuous Stripping Column Build
- Replies: 23
- Views: 8214
Continuous Stripping Column Build
I'm trying to increase production at my distillery and have decided to build a new continuous stripping column. I wanted to create a thread to document some of the build process so that it may be beneficial to other members in the future. I've partnered with my college alma mater and some of the che...
- Tue Nov 28, 2017 12:25 pm
- Forum: Flavoring and Aging
- Topic: Finally pulled the trigger on Gibbs barrels
- Replies: 30
- Views: 4499
Re: Finally pulled the trigger on Gibbs barrels
My mash bills are actually 66% corn, 17% malted barley, 17% rye, and I have an identical mash bill where the rye is replaced with wheat. I barrel each of them separately, and will combine barrels of each recipe after aging. You could try something similar. Fill each barrel with a different mash bill...
- Tue Nov 28, 2017 12:21 pm
- Forum: Flavoring and Aging
- Topic: Finally pulled the trigger on Gibbs barrels
- Replies: 30
- Views: 4499
Re: Finally pulled the trigger on Gibbs barrels
I age in 15 gallon barrels, with a #3 char, however not made by Gibbs. Bourbon has been bottled at between 20 and 24 months and the angel's share in a Mississippi non air conditioned warehouse has been about 9-10% per year.
- Tue Nov 28, 2017 4:53 am
- Forum: Rum
- Topic: Another RUM thread
- Replies: 50
- Views: 8361
Re: Another RUM thread
Lallemand RM yeast is great, I use it myself. I think your estimates are off by about a factor of 2, but I could be proven wrong. What are the specs on your molasses, i.e. what is the percentage that is still fermentable sugar? Ugh, I hope you're wrong. If I remember correctly, The last time we ran...
- Mon Nov 27, 2017 4:20 pm
- Forum: Rum
- Topic: Another RUM thread
- Replies: 50
- Views: 8361
Re: Another RUM thread
Lallemand RM yeast is great, I use it myself. I think your estimates are off by about a factor of 2, but I could be proven wrong. What are the specs on your molasses, i.e. what is the percentage that is still fermentable sugar?
- Thu Nov 16, 2017 7:59 am
- Forum: Distilling News
- Topic: Houston vodka distillery explosion.
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1771
Re: Houston vodka distillery explosion.
It reads like they had an electric mixer stirring a tank for blending. If it's high proof, and the electric motor wasn't explosion proof, it could ignite.
- Wed Nov 15, 2017 6:01 pm
- Forum: Flavoring and Aging
- Topic: BT Quoting 76% Angel Share
- Replies: 18
- Views: 2320
Re: BT Quoting 76% Angel Share
I've lost an annual rate on average of about 9.7% per year. Is that 9.7% of total barrel capacity each annum, or after the first year and subsequent years 9.7% of whats left in the barrel ? From what my copper has told me and from my own observation the lower the liquid level and the more the head ...
- Wed Nov 15, 2017 4:39 pm
- Forum: Flavoring and Aging
- Topic: BT Quoting 76% Angel Share
- Replies: 18
- Views: 2320
Re: BT Quoting 76% Angel Share
I know this is an old post, but I thought I would revisit it and give some more numbers of my own. Based on Buffalo Trace's data from that release, the bourbon's and rye whiskies listed in that chart lost an annual rate of 8.0%, 4.9%, 6.8%, 8.9%, and 6.2% annually over their lifetime for the various...
- Mon Nov 13, 2017 3:46 pm
- Forum: Condensers/Cooling Methods
- Topic: Shotgun condenser design questions
- Replies: 9
- Views: 3099
Re: Shotgun condenser design questions
Check out my build thread. I built several shotgun condensers out of 8" pipe. I used 37 1/2" copper tubes inside of my 8" shell. I personally don't think a 6" diameter, 15" long condenser is going to be big enough for your 100 gallon still. I have to run a pretty good flow o...