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Oh right,,,,food. Most of the latins use it for their morning coffee rather than the white. Hey guys, if you wanna try some tipical use of panela, use half a block (about 1/2Lb), pass it through a cheese grate, add about 1 1/2 Lt of water and boil it for a couple of minuts, let it cool, then add th...

Hey guys, i guess most of you wont remember me, or dont even know who i am, but some of the eldest here may, uncle jesse, the holy mackerel, greyson-stewart, knuckelhead i was a regular visitor back in 2004, i even made me my own still bokakob style reflux column, and i worked like a charm, i havent...

Aging with rasins is my favorite way to do it. 1 cup raisins per gallon of 120proof or higher spirit, age it for 3 months, then filter it, and put it on lightly charred oak for a bit. You'll be surprised how good it is. 4 months ago i bottled some rum i was making, i was thinking of raisins but did...

I like all kinds of fishing but mainly do speargun fishing nothing like going 10 meters under the sea with nothing but your lungs and get a 5 Kg fish (don´t know the names), i spend about 8 hours on the water almost every sunday, i have the advantage of 2 seasons a year so i can go diving even on de...

get some cheap vodka, that would do it

maybe your problem s the charcoal. what kind are you using? if you are using plain BBQ charcoal ready to light there is your problem it does have kerosene and there is no way to remove the taste. but if instead you're using activated carbon or fish tank filtering carbon there sould be no kerosene fl...

i have been told that adding a couple of raisins will make your mash ferment espontaneously because of natural yeasts in them, if you try it let us know, about flavors

brett wrote: (demijohns would be a good thing here)

what is a demijohn, i have senn them some where, and recall the name but i just cant figure out what they are for or how they work

mandatory ????, we can even use wood pipes for the sink, :lol: , actually we use 2" pvc for the sink drains and 4" for the main sewage, but 2" copper you can find at comercial airconditioners store the ones that sell for maintenance companies, easy to get from them, 2", 21/2"...

down here at venezuela we have some rums so cheap that they make you blind but the next morning you wake up back to normal but of course the hangover is a killer, mostly drank by homeless and street people, these are not even rum its just plain alcohol with rum like flavors,

for the boiler size you want to use (the tea boiler) 2" is too big, try to get a bigger boiler, like a stainless steel keg or a large pressure cooker, as for the cooper jug i think those are welded with lead soldering dont use any lead solder use silver or tig welding instead, for the pot/reflu...

you can always move your still to the basement

linw wrote:
Vapour does not escape from the open column because it is condensed completely.

when the opening is after the condenser

does the cat have to be thre before or after you transfer to the carboys?


nice work uncle jesse, i'll get some rye to try this stuff though i'm not very into whiskey making

more like closer to the condenser

and there is this lovely summer weather all the time

you can always come to venezuela, there is some kind of legallity for us, the authorities are worried about more important things than looking for homedistillers, although there is no law that alows you to have a still at home , you can always offer them a bottle of your own booze in exchange of jus...

my first boiler for my reflux still was a 10 liter enameled pressure cooker, i made 3 or 4 liters of booze in it but as the human race moves on to new technologies, so did i, i changed my nice little enameled pot (wich was my grand mother's pressure cooker), to a brand new SS 50L keg, i didn't have ...

hi guys, i'm plannig to make a straight sugarcane juice mash, not molasses, do i have to add water or sugar?, what would be a good starting SG for this mash

hi farom, i am from venezuela, where are you from?, maybe i can help you by asking the right questions for you, i think you speak spanish or italian, so i can be some help

good answer assman, thats the spirit to learn all you can until you die old and take your wisdom to the grave

Guest wrote: The reason for this suggestion is that I think it would be easer to ship thru customs, and easy to ship because it is a packaged product. It is made out of the old Jack Danials oak barrels. there is no problem passing oak chips thru customs, actually today he called saying that he had ...

i'm making some rum now and i found a little cask but it's not made of oak, so i want to put some oak chips or shavings into it to give some oak flavour to the rum, but i cant find any oak, where can someone get oak chips aroud the miami area, my old man is working there now and he can get them for me

Yttrium wrote:A few weeks ago I remember a story from India where the alcohol being sold was 90% methanol. I wouldn't call that "contaminated liquor", I'd call that mislabeling an industrial solvent.

i would call that contaminated methanol

you can make an oil-water separation if it's only for a presentation
and use cooking oil so it won't be toxic or flamable

if none of these advises work maybe some chewing gum will work lol

i read you posts with tears in my eyes, my 11 months old mastiff had a very bad case of hip dysplasia and i had to put her to sleep, i had some pics of her posted some time ago, take care of your puppies and give them some love from me

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i think 2400W is too much power, it would work for initial temperature raising but try to get a second smaller element for the run, or maybe get a rheostat