Home Distiller

I loved the description of that whiskey from when I read that as a kid.

Wow this sounds great!!!

Use a screw driver or something to get some extra torque on the screw clamp

A nice herbal mild hoppy type of digestiff or bitter would be great. I guess hops help stimulate the stomachs digestion abilities.

old felt hat works also :mrgreen: If you saw my old felt hat you wouldn't want it anywhere near your booze, Its been places and got things on it that you don't want to know about. Depending on how old. You all know where the term "as mad as a hatter" comes from. Hatters would form felt ha...

I've had a decent blended scotch that's a $40 retail and then a $500 single malt right after. I'd say price downs t make it anymore palatable. The blended scotch was amazing palatable, fruity, and just made my tastebuds sing. The higher end kne was overly pleated, funky, burnt my tounge and wasnt pl...

i've seen video of commercial guys using a big wad of cotton batting too. Me, i think blue shop towels work great. Coffee filters are great also! Run those low wines again, my low wines looks like cloudy oily old dishwater all the oils and things you dont want will stay in the boiler once you run i...

For the less sticky mess method use rice hulls (landscape supply store is cheapest) and ferment on the grain. I use big nylon brew bags (a bigger mesh is better) and a mop bucket. A wine press will work great, also depending on your dedication and technical skills you can use a centrifuge, a stainle...

Welcome fellow Canadian. First of all ditch that pressure cooker Still and get yourself a keg

I use glass carboys with a cork to decrease the angels dipping into the carboy. B Invest a bit of money in glass jugs and carboys. Look at your local online used market and look for people selling home brewing and wine making equipment. I've gotten carboys for $10 but I had to buy all 5, was a grea...

The hop pills can get into everywhere in your still and be a jerk. You'll want to clean it well, a good friend of mine is a distiller at a good sized brewery/distillery and made IPA EU de vie. It is great! He was able to get some great flavor but said the hop oils start coming out in the tails and v...

Seems that alot of distillers run multiple thumpers which could save height. Here is a couple ideas I've had. 1. Use a low height, wide boiler with steam or electric heat to save height by eliminating a propane burner which Is like 10inches or so. 2. Use 2 shorty columns have a pot still head on you...

I've tried adding 20% wheat malt for enzymes and flavor and... wow!!! I do always use added enzymes and the results are great everytime

that looks pretty clean, but do a cleaning run first. After a few runs your still will get "seasoned" and a patina will develop. You wont want a scrubbed shiny still either, its best to just use hot water and a quick wipe to clean your still. ill always wash mine after a few stripping runs...

Added Enzymes are insurance. A corn and unmalted wheat bourbon would be smooth jazz

+1 HDNB. There is centuries of knowledge here, and experts in every aspect. But previous little on how to process potatoes with a means of efficiency. 50lbs of potatoes for a glass or 2 of vodka is uninspiring to say the least. Welcome! Throw some info into the fruits and vegetable section once you...

good score! have you noticed much of a difference with efficiency and heat input?

This is great!!!

Sounds sort of like the Kraft pulping process.

I had about 40gal of Dunder in a plastic tank in my yard if my old place, I opened it and took a whiff and it smelled of poop and rotten eggs. This wasnt something worth keeping so it had to be tossed. Ended up drilling holes in the bottom of the barrel it was in and let it drain. It was stinky for ...

Haha the top one is burn through on some stainless sheet. This is why you want to always back purge your joints with argon.

Tig weld it, and pay for a professional to do a nice job as it I'll last a lifetime. Dont cut corners, I dont know how many times people have tried to get me to fix their problems that they messed up beyond repair. So you are saying fixing a screw up is much more time consuming and difficult than d...

Tig weld it, and pay for a professional to do a nice job as it I'll last a lifetime. Dont cut corners, I dont know how many times people have tried to get me to fix their problems that they messed up beyond repair.

Use 300 series and if a magnet sticks to it then it's no good. Also if you are welding it then tig weld and back purge, hire a professional if you arent, always clean anything you've cut or welded, stainless makes nastys when heated and exposed to air.

@aircarbonarc, I am totally agree with you. Of course, when you get higher temperatures than base metal starts to melt, but there is basic difference between welding and soldering, that is for sure. I started TIG-welding ~5 years ago and can say this is very intelligent way how to join metals (most...

Building seems to be universally constant. My old 2" column I ran my first run on is now being used as the shell for my current shotgun condenser. I've built some simple boka stills, then more complex parts that fit the simple boka stills, experimented with sheet metal and even drew up some pl...

Friend of mine saying that TIG-welding is same as soldering only temperatures are higher. And I agree with that. Because of this friend of mine I got my TIG-welder about 5 years ago, and from that time I can not imagine how could I live in the house without it. So, if you have further plans for mod...

You'll need emulsifiers, my friends were making and selling a very popular and good cream liqueur through their distillery. It was just basic coffee, cream and neutral. Had to get shaken and once opened it had a limited shelf life. Was very good, someone people did complain though and got freaked ou...

If you are going to use scrubbies, get yourself some copper pest control mesh. It comes in big packs, 50' is enough usually. And it packs in nicely. Clean nice new copper

Those gallon jugs that cheap wine comes in are great to have around also for storage.

I did however use a couple water jugs for fermenters while in Mexico, they were food grade plastic so they worked. Just a pain to clean.