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If you don't like weevils this gives great taste. Dump a 50# bag of cracked feed corn in a 20 gal pot and pour 15 gal boiling water on it. I use my boiler sitting on a table over the pot. This puts you at 180degF. Follow Booner's recipe besides that. Excellent flavor and no bug food leftovers. Use 1...

Onlinemetals.com sells thin sheet teflon. The 0.031" should do what you want and last a long time if treated gently

Costco, $19USD for 50#, everyone there buys bulk so I don't stand out at all.

Nice find

Picked up a little, put some fores in an empty water bottle for my neighbor's shop, swept and wiped. Was straining and diluting a gallon of corn and when I dumped in the water the abv rose... Went back to my neighbor, got my water, gave him the fores and am now rerunning the contaminated whiskey. Da...

Strip and spirit is what I do with a potstill also, but there are a few members that advocate one slow run through a potstill, must taste good to them. I've gotten addicted to my bubble caps, great flavor and high abv in 1 run.

I use a vacuum pump with about the same setup as snowman with PFA tubing for wine, beer, low wines or high abv. Pull a vacuum on the container being transferred to and tube the dip tube (from the source) to a high opening in the destination. The liquid never touches the pump and ferment gets partial...

+1 on the Teflon tape on the edge of the glass, did that a year ago and it's still solid.

Keep in mind you really only need a top and bottom sight glass for monitoring your run. The middle ones are just bling.

Early morning for me, most times of the year it's too hot by about noon.

It was a great game, unlike the Panthers handing out an ass kicking later in the day. Yeah, BigBob, I'm a Niners fan, too. Been kind of rough lately.

I like the condensate dripping off the twisted copper, nice visual.

Beautiful build.

Copper bubble caps for me, though there's lots of ways to get there. SD's products are high quality and the one problem I had was handled quickly.

Sure is some nice work. Enjoy.

3 with another buying supplies for a build. One makes really good stuff, one makes shot-house crap and the third did it in a country that doesn't allow spirits, he's gearing up for running in the States now. Each one is a voice for legalization.

For blending I keep a 1/4 tsp measuring spoon bent like a ladle at the spoon side. dip into the jars and dilute with water to whatever strength you seek and it's easy to test the potential blend's taste. +1 on the adding some dunder, add some un-diluted hearts to dunder to make an essence and blend ...

Hey Paname,
Good advice from Saltbush Bill. Remember too that a lot of the rum flavor is in the early tails., stop too early and the hearts by themselves can be pretty bland.

Happy New Year. Have fun, stay safe.
Gonna have a few and blow some things up in the back yard. No driving tonight.

Worked with a couple Chernobyl veterans in the '80's, they would have liked that option. Turn it up!

cranky, using the ssr 40a ac 24-380v I was asked by a electrician [not an instrament, house jocky] he thought it needs power to work the low voltage side, I wanted to say the ssr is providing the power if it needs any at all. does this thing generate its own low voltage for the pot to work? Yes, it...

Warm up- Brie and pepper jelly on water crackers with Cabernet
Main: Rare prime rib, mashed potatoes and a big salad
Dessert: Corn whiskey

Merry Christmas, all

Yep, modular bubble plates, best of all worlds.

Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays and a prosperous and tasty New Year.

Slow is better if it's a slow ferment. I do a slow molasses fermentation at around 12% for heavy rum and whole raisins do a good job there. Oxygen and/or lipids is important in the initial growth phase.

Insight into why big cat males will eat their young.

If you can, ask an experienced chicken killer to break a ducks neck. They'll get a live, noisy, pissed off duck. Funny, in a sick way.
I do love (non seafood eating) duck.

What Rastus said about the hose, and I put the jug in the grain bin to kill the weevils.

For high grav molasses (or probably white sugar) ferments, whole raisins slowly add nutrients. Didn't think of this at first. It works for rum.

Used to use raisins, sugar and fruit "nectar" for gawdawful wine in junior high. Hear raisins are popular in jail too, for the same reason.
Hey, both work.