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I am fortunate enough to live in Texas, and within driving distance of Brewhaus (only 3hrs away). I have been to their new warehouse and the staff there is great and helpful. Of course now they are stocking a pluthera of hot sauces, so lets just say, my $70 order I ordered online ended up costing me...

Fritz, I'm using the 12% Sweetfeed with pellets from Tractor Supply, and I'm not having any issues with the fermenting or final product.

Just go to a feed store and tell them you need a bag of cracked corn. My 50lb bag was $12.

Just file or sand the stop down. Should slide right thru, and you can then solder everything together.

So, I didn't make it 4 weeks. Pulled off half of the 90% and added the sugar syrup. Luckily I didn't add the prescribed amount, and decided to go half and half. Turned out I needed to add a little more of the 90% (was a little too sweet for me). After that it takes great, and it definetly has a kick...

I'm using a propane burner and not having any issues at all with the open flame. Just be careful as always.

Not sure what I did different, or actually what I did right this time, but had 12 gallons of All Bran wash that fermented out in 2 weeks. I did a single run on my 48" VM column and ended up with 96% ABV. Unbelievable. And it stayed that way almost all the way thru the run. The end of hearts, an...

Just finished a neutral on Sunday and my order of cinnamon sticks arrived last night from Amazon (got a bunch of em for cheap). Got the sticks soaking in 90% abv, so we'll see what happens in 4 weeks. I'll let ya'll know.

And yes I have a set of ferrules welded between the columns so dropping it down to 20" wont be a problem. I've read that you lose flavor with the taller column, so I may try it both at 40" packed and at 20" packed and see which flavor profile suits me.

Ok, thanks Myles. Not removing the packing is gonna save alot of time. I was thinking that I needed to remove the helix and replace it with a cap, but went brain dead after reading up on the Boka columns, slant plates, cm's, flutes, etc.

I built a 2" copper VM hybrid. By hybrid I mean that I can break it down from 40" of packed/unpacked column, down to 20" of packed/unpacked column for pot still applications. I've been running running Rad's all bran with a 40" reflux with great success, but now I want to do a swe...

I thought the same thing too, but if you take a closer look at the last picture, he is holding the coil in front of the pipe to show how far down in the tube it hangs

Welcome, from a fellow Texan. Your gonna find alot of useful information in here.

I just finished building my reflux column and can tell you, it adds up quickly. I might have been better off buying a column from Brewhaus or Milehi, but I had free 2" copper and hated to see it go to waste. Now granted I've built exactly what I need, a column split into 20" sections so th...

On my leibig, I put a threaded union before the 90 degree elbow going down to the leibig, this way I can adjust it to any angle I want. But from my understanding it's up to your personal preference as far as the angle is concerned.

Thanks guys, I have already purchased and installed the triclamps and ferules, now I'm just just waiting for my 2" T to come in and I should be ready. Well almost ready. I've been trying to make my gold finger, or double helix condensor, but have only managed to mess up 15' of coiled 1/4" ...

Been doing alot of reading, researching, and planning. And here I though moonshining was basically putting water, sugar, and yeast together. I had originally built a simple still out of an old 4 gallon pressure cooker from my mom, and coiled copper tubing running thru a modified cooler with ice. Boy...