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Kinda a general post, in response / reply / support / to expand to what has been said by bagasso, myles, junkyard.... Second, carbon has its place, just be smart about what you are doing. Yes, cuts... yes, quality washes... but consider this. I like vodka. I don't like paying for ingredients. I get ...

At the moment I'm doing 50% heavy peated malt and 50% bulk liquid malt extract washes. I guess it'd be called a partial mash, if you wanted to put a label on it. Bugger me it smells amazing though, even raw. It's a good way to "cheat" and still retain all-grain flavour, and I can get the e...

El-z - try to find a cheap old fridge or freezer on whatever secondhand goods website is common around your neck of the woods. You can normally pick them up for almost nothing. Then, if you want to get really obsessive about your ferments, you can put a dual channel controller on it ($25 on ebay ex ...

if you absolutely must hurry, try gelatin + cold crashing. 1 tablesppon of gelatin per 25L of wash, prepeared like this: add gelatin to 1 cup of hot tap water in a small pot, let sit to "bloom" for 20 mins or so. then gently, gently, gently heat up the pot, stirring often, to 170F, then re...

dropping or defusing wasn't enough to last me a run with a 50L boiler before my distillate was steaming (must be about a 300L reservoir?). I opted for a car radiator in the cooling return line and a household fan ducted onto it - that does the trick for me. multiple runs in a day no worries, the coo...

Ordering from Amphora in the states is the best option I could find without buying kilos and kilos of the stuff. It's pretty affordable with the dollar at the moment.

Hey mate, regarding your kegs question, try dropping Keg Resources a line (google them). They're up in glenfeild and they decommission all the kegs for the big breweries, so it's all above board. If you want one both fast and cheap, you'll have to let your morals slide a bit and talk to some unscrup...

Gotta chime in here and say that the best aged spirit I've ever made is an all feints (including heads, but not foreshots) rum . Hey Kiwi, how did it taste before the aging process? Did it have a sting? How many generations of recycled heads? My second to last run was pretty awesome, full grainy/fr...

Gotta chime in here and say that the best aged spirit I've ever made is an all feints (including heads, but not foreshots) rum. It's about 3 years old now, give or take, and going great. Still on oak in glass, aired regulary. After a year I added a touch more oak, charred, after two batches of UJSM ...

There is a really strong home brew community in Nelson, you should try to hook up with some of those guys if you haven't already. They get the cheapest grain and hops I've heard of in NZ, through the Sprig and Fern. You can probably find them easy on forum.realbeer.co.nz. I swear they have some sort...

Cool. Yeah try adding some dunder to the spirit run, but also try a low heat and the wet towel treatment on the strip, or at least at the start of the strip for an hour or so if you want to experiment

Lotta ways to play round with rum if chemistry's your buzz.

See the house with the green roof in the lower centre of the shot? 99.9% sure that's my uncles house

Bottom of Malcom Place, right? Small country.

Giving it a long reflux before taking off product with low to no reflux will get you good esterification and smear it nicely into hearts. If you can't reflux, strip very very slow in the pot and place wet towels around the column / top of the boiler to slow things down even further. I think (and may...

Gidday mate, I'm a displaced Nelsonian myself, lovely part of the world to live in. I still would if I could find a good job there! :lol: I'd encourage you to build yourself if you can do it, you'll save a load of cash and end up with a better still. There's a few around on here that might be able t...

The esteemed Mr Hookline has suggested I offer my services as a forwarding agent to Nathan if anyone is more comfortable doing that. Happy to do it via pm or email if that would assist any stateside distillers who want to pipe up and keep another layel of anonymity between them and the media.

Mr.Spooky wrote:Isn't it funny how we build a picture of someone that we've never seen before. I was forsure that kiwi was about 50 years older

I'm told I give off that impression, yes

Few of us younguns around that still want to do things properly though.

WalkingWolf wrote:friggin Kiwi -- show off.

: Cheers

I have no reason to hide. Happy to help if you'd like to have a chat, flipped you a pm.

*waves from the stands* Hi guys! The thinly veiled racism and not-at-all veiled mud slinging in this thread is embarrassing :x . Blanik, If you want to talk ethics, I hope you'll soon be commenting on the use of sugar in the distillation process, and the worker conditions of the industry you're prop...

kiwistiller wrote:snip...Not saying it's ok,

These guys assert on their website that Pt cure silicone is safe - someone asked them a direct question and they answered publicly: http://www.coleparmer.com/catalog/product_view.asp?sku=9641082" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" rel="nofollow Not saying it's ok, but...

All good :) few family memebers without houses, but nothing more than broken bones amoungst my close relations. Manback's house is completely destroyed apparently, but he's ok. azeo was fine in wellington. Don't think we had that many chch members that were active in posting. Best series of photos s...

Hi everyone

I'll help out by doing a proof on the wiki, and adding / fixing some of the info on keg boilers. Nice to see the wiki being used, it would be great for this sort of thing.

Filby wrote:
kiwistiller wrote:Why don't you power up after equalisation?

Yer i think i will give that a shot. Hard to calculate how much is being refluxed though.

It's easy actually. Open it fully, measure how much is coming out, then you know the total.

400ml per hour is incredibly slow for a 2" column in my books.

Why don't you power up after equalisation?

Fat man / little boy, whichever you prefer.

Oh bugger me, we don't get that here... I thought I'd found an untapped pirate name to use... Ah well thanks for the heads up

Austin Nichols wrote:The clamps are great kiwi, they fit nice and snug over the 4" pipe.... perfect!

Really? I've had to expand my 4" copper pipe to go over them. Interesting.

Hell, most of us are trying to get or dunder pits infected, so you should be right with that one. A couple of litres of boiled (then cooled) water on top of your yeast bed should keep it happy, or just make up another wash, it'll be waiting for you when you return.

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