Home Distiller

Figured as much. Oh well, i got a pressure cooker to turn into a still

On the home distiller page there is a plan for a still that uses a paint can for a boiler, and a smaller one for a thumper. Is this safe? Ive got hundreds of paint cans laying around, so i could defiantly do this if its safe.

Word of advice...dont take a sealed lid off a wash. I thought it was near done fermenting, so i took the lid of a wash. It erupted with a explosion of fruit that smelled good at least.

my room smells like wine now. There is fruit all over the place.

this strain simply cant be stopped!

i forgot to turn the heater on, so it was cold for about 18 hours, but 2 hours after returning heat it once again thrives. I am thinking about taking the stuff from the next wash and doing one big one(5gal)

they are de-stemmed fresh frozen strawberries. methanol doesnt necessarily have to come from wood.

CoopsOz wrote: I was referencing the content of the seeds. I've read that it is important to remove the seeds when fermenting other types of fruit....I think.

oh, never heard of that being a problem.

CoopsOz wrote:Do you have to worry about all the little strawberry seeds? I know it's minimal just thought I'd ask.

i dont worry, they strain out after fermenting.

I made 4 washes with the strained stuff of the first one. All of them are going wild! crazy activity all night and day.

you can also make something similar(though not near as good) Take frozen strawberries, crush them up well. Put them in a container and pour vodka on them, add sugar(as sweet as you'd like it) stir it, strain it and drink it.(let it sit a few hours before straining for even more strawberry flavor and...

Yea, i going to rack it for about 4 days then collect the sediment and start another wash.

I collected the bigger stuff last night and started another wash which is already going strong, hella activity.

I made a small strawberry wash 4 days ago. Right now, its tasting like strong wine, its actually pretty tasty too. I am going to distill it tomorrow. Would it work if I reuse the strained off stuff(cap, debris from the strawberries) in another wash to get it going without yeast? I used regular ol' b...

On my second distillation: Lighting some booze fresh off the still right beside it. I didnt think it was burning because it was still hot so I threw it in the main jug and some on my arm, which made my knock over 2 cups of 70% nearly burning down the shed.

nice work


jars like the one in the middle are worth money, if they are the same type I had. I sold 10 of them I found while cleaning out an old ladys garage for 50$ each.

Defiantly going to attempt this one when i collect enough rain water. I can see how the rain water would help, it has to have hella good nutrients in it, not to mention it would be pretty pure.

i actually like the smell of a fermenting wash. Keep in mind, i dont do large washes. 1 gal is my biggest so far so the smell is not strong. I had to leave town for a few weeks without notice so I flushed the wash :( it was doing so good. i am regretting tossing it, but I did it in fear of my girlfr...

Just an update: Its acting up quite a bit, bubbling/producing co2 at an almost violent rate. Fermenting in my bedroom with a heating pad under a blanket with the bucket of wash @ 74F I have had to reseal the lid to the fermenting chamber quite a few times, and I am often hearing the "pop" ...

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i used to drink my parents liquor and put water to replace what I had taken

I just finished up a 1 gal sugar wash with the following recipe. 1 tblspoon molasses 1 1/2lb sugar 1 tblspoon bakers yeast 1 tblspoon orange jelly(for nutrients?) small amount of a multivitamin How should this turn out? I made this wash in a 1/10th amount before and it came out to roughly one cup of...

a buddy of mine uses his to run camping stoves and to start fires and grills

update on the last of my first washes: I had one small regular sugar/water wash left, and one with some homemade orange marmalade put in it 3 days into fermentation. The regular sugar water wash is still fermenting, but I am distilling the orange wash. The first distillate of my first 1 gal wash was...

thanks for the tips and suggestions guys, i am picking up alot of knowledge here!

I will discard the first 100ml next time. Is it better to make multiple small washes, or one big one? I still have 2 small washes left in nalgene water bottles, and I have about 30 more bottles that I can use. i can go out and buy a big bucket if the bottles are not a good idea. Could someone recomm...

I would like to see some pics of this ice water still. Word. I will do that next time I run it. To explain it easier, it is just a stock pan with a extremely large stainless steel bowl on top full of ice and water. Since I have easy access to it, I plan on implementing the use of LN2(liquid nitroge...

Well, I cant afford booze, and I needed a hobby so I picked up on distilling. Thats pretty much all there is about me. I plan on making this a long term hobby, so I will be here a while. you could say I started off bad. I just guessed on quantities of yeast and sugar and made a 1 gallon sugar wash. ...