Home Distiller

after a few weeks in the column, (i forgot I shoved them up there) they were almost disentigrated.

so, can anyone actually tell me whether or not the distillate is safe to drink?

they were just coated with copper. is my shine still safe to drink?

I recently had a welder cut out two holes in my keg/boiler and weld in some threaded fittings for my heating elements. He said I should "clean out the mess from the welds" before I use the still. I've scrubbed it with a modified brush through the holes with soap, but cant see inside the ke...

by wash, I imagine you are doing sugar washes, not malt.

for mashes using corn, rye, malt etc. ph is important to extract maximum sugar out of the mash.

for sugar washes, I think adjustment prior to fermentation is necessary, but once it starts going, dont fool with it

it is hopped, not to heavily though, I'm not interested in making true beirschnapps, just using a quart or two of beer added to 5 gallons of a sugar wash in place of yeast nutrients.

just wondering if anybody has ever tried this

when doing a sugar wash using red star champagne yeast, could you use homebrewed beer as a source of nutrients for the fermentation? I ask this because I recently brewed a batch of beer that had a some flavor defects, and instead of distilling it all, wanted to add some to a sugar wash in place of y...