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Well said

How about: "If the wine and beer guys can legally produce an unlimited amount of product for their personal/household consumption, why does it become illegal to make the same wine and beer but remove the excess water and contaminates?"

I think it is a great step for you to take. I was hired to do some lobbying to the alberta government years ago and they kept bringing up misinformation and incorrect ideology that someone had suggested in prior meetings. It was hard to get them to see the light. Discussion is a great step and congr...

Sorry, not an Albertan but: I wouldnt be trying to throw out a bunch of regulation ideas that you might regret later on. Great to start discussions but start with the ideas of legalization and go from there. I have years of experience in dealing with governments and never throw an idea out there tha...

cheers

wonder how many of us great white northerners there are here?

Sorry, I shouldn't have insinuated greed as your motivation. I assumed from your post that because you were using a high abv commercial distillers yeast and a potential abv of 20% fermenting it at a high temp that getting a high % in a short time was your goal. One thing to consider is that what fin...

For the yeast you are using I agree that you are using too much sugar. Why be so greedy? 10% is max for anything that will finish in a week-10 days with regular type yeast, ONLY COMMENT ON TURBO YEASTS >>>>>>>>>>good for fuel Most yeast can't handle the stress of that high of alcohol% and will creat...

vodka is a neutral spirit as legally defined by your gooberment!!

i use a waterbed heater taped and zip tied to the side of the fermenter and plugged into a stc1000 controller. Works great and you could also put one under the fermenter.

They are really cheap on craigslist or other used classified sites

I am more looking at a packed section above a 4" plated column.

That's kind of what I was getting at with not so much for a 4 inch. My thoughts are the amount of input needed to keep the temp up in a 4" column to gain the increased HETP of SPP becomes marginal vs the reduced HETP of lava or scrubbers at a lower input level. On paper it seems beneficial but ...

Thermal and thermodynamic properties of the materials work only when temperature is changed . Temperature in each section of column (except the lowest four inches) remains unchanged from the beginning to the end of the distillation (if the regime of distillation is correct). We can see the differen...

You would get better results filtering the final product rather than the low wines. Think of the carbon like what it is, a filter. If you filter the low wines, the pores of the carbon get clogged with a lot of stuff that wont be in your final product anyway. It will help some but the results will be...

If you want a bunch of information on carbon filtering here is a text with all you would want to know. The is a lot of science behind its use. http://aussiedistiller.com.au/books/Chocaholic/Activated%20Carbon%20-%20H.%20Marsh,%20et%20al.,%20(Elsevier,%202006" onclick="window.open(this.href...

Not sure if it is allowed to post this link but it just got added to another forum's library for download in pdf

http://aussiedistiller.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=47&t=1888" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" rel="nofollow

are you sure you drew this correctly? never mind saw the earlier post about the short problem

if you fixed the short, please redraw the circuit to what you have actually wired up so we can help you fix it

If you show us your actual circuit the way it is wired now, we can help you fix it

Great plan tk

The biggest problem is that you will be running around 25 watts for an hour while you are heating the boiler up before you turn it down to run. even downgrading to a 4500 watt element will be pulling around 20.5 amps Code only allows 80% of the wire rating to be used for the draw of what you are hoo...

What techniques have you guys used to solder on your sight glasses?? cut hole first? cut hole after? do you clamp them in place? solder from the inside or outside? etc this is the last step in the build and for me is the most intimidating so I've saved it for last any pointers would be greatly appre...

Thanks Odin for starting this thread One thing i don't undersrtand is why are people so damn impatient??? if you are making likker for your personal consumption, what is the big rush? do you really need a ferment to finish in 4 days with a 18% abv yield? If you need to run every 4-7 days, get a few ...

Wow do I feel stupid now!!

When I clipped the breaker back in, I missed the proper slot by one space and of course I had both poles clipped into the same bus

All fixed and running right now!!!

This is my wiring

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Here is the same one. http://www.ebay.com/itm/300922607400?ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1423.l2649" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" rel="nofollow when it is hooked up to the red and black poles BEFORE the relay nothing happens no backlight, no readin...

red to red and black to black = nothing

red to red and black to neutral = meter turns on reading 110v

any ideas?

I was 99% sure but it didn't come with any instructions or anything so thought I'd check I made a new control box out of a 30 amp disconnect switch, some ebay parts and the PSR/pot out of the original MK 5500 I bought about 5 years ago. The volt / ammeter has a built in shunt so the ct was easy to h...

I bought a volt / ammeter off ebay that will read up to 300 v and I want to wire it to show the 220 going to the boiler If I attach the red wire from the ammeter to red and black to neutral, it reads 110v This might be a stupid question but here goes in order to get the meter to read 220v do I wire ...

I posted this under another section

The bulk store sells molasses but from my calculations it works out to around $29 a gallon for fancy and $25 for a gallon of blackstrap

How does this price compare to what others are getting "human grade" molasses for?