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Prairiepiss wrote:

I explained I had an pretty expensive honey wash that couldn't wait any longer.

That's funny. A honey wash that can't wait. My last honey ferment took over a year in the fermenter.

Well, that would have saved me a lot of sweat. Expensive washes + inexperience = paranoia

I bought a 5 Gal. Copper Pot Still from whiskeystill.net, it works great. http://www.whiskeystill.net/collections/frontpage/products/3230-buy-a-whiskey-still-for-sale" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" rel="nofollow I use the same one. It doesn't use clamps like mod...

wow, this thread got turned around in a hurry!

Kifi wrote:Afterwards, I rinse with a mixture of water and baking soda to neutralize the acids. Good luck.

I feel empowered
thank you!

I Chloride Stress Corrosion Cracking (CSCC) is the reason you shouldn't put bleach or clorox in a stainless pot. It'll crack - and if any welds are present they'll crack even faster. Similar chemical-metal cracking combination exists elsewhere: carbon steel & caustic, ammonia & brass/copper...

You might want to poke around tote re-sellers. Not that you would use a 255 gallon tote, but they often carry barrels. They're just reselling them and almost always know how they were used (OSHA mandates that all industrial containers be labeled.) Just tell them you're going to be using it for drink...

rad14701 wrote:I'll pass on commenting on that continuous contraption...

In retrospect—and probably due to my job—my view of safety probably differs quitttttteeeeeeeeeee a bit from most people.


~ Stone

My stills: Continuous Still, Pot Still, Whiskey Still

In that CM drawing the water flow is backwards... Cold water should enter at the bottom of the product condenser and exit out the top, counter-flow to the vapor... You always want the coldest part of the condenser to be the furthest away from the boiler so you can guarantee adequate vapor knock dow...

Your column section that is directly adjacent to your liebig condenser.... Cut it out and add some adapters so that if needed you can re-attach......Then install the column (and condenser)section onto a conventional boiler and run as a batch system so that you can make cuts and gitcha some drankin ...

How could I modify this thing to be good off of a straight run? Just lop off a column section,,,add a tri=clamp adapter to either end for re-attachment if needed and throw the column section on to a a more conventional boiler...... I think he was talking about the monster still? Not the one he's ru...

**I should add: without using an additional downstream column to flash the light-ends...


although...............


~Stone

You know with a few mods to the CM still you have you could make don good whiskey with it. And improve the reflux performance while your at it. It would be a lot cheaper then buying a new one. Good luck be safe. Thank you! Now I've always thought that continuous stills were inferior to pot because ...

Damn! Happy to have another crazy evil genius on board. Keep the pictures coming. Remember , Not too much personal info. This after all an illegal hobby. Welcome aboard Distillation Monster Stone. Haha, thanks! And I'm not too terribly worried. After all, if anyone cared to, they could link your SN...

Bayou-Ruler wrote:welcome...............

thanks!

Gday, cool pic. If you are looking for an authentic copper pot still that is not too expensive then I can say that these guys are good. Their Biggest alembic is 20 litre so maybe too small for you but I have a 10 litre one from them here at home and it's great quality. Price in my opinion was prett...

heh heh, thanks! I've always been fond of Goldberg machines. probably because even some of the best engineered ones fail when at competition, so I feel a sort of kinship in engineering failures. I was surprised as hell when this thing not only worked as designed, but that it put out a burnable produ...

A little about yourself Hey guys, I'm Stone, sometimes called Stoner, hence the SN. (no, I don't smoke, my last name is Stone) A little about what you want to do, and or what you would like to gain from the site/forum. So, a bit about me. I'm an operator at a very large oil company. I've been out t...