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Thanks guys! This is good to know! I swear I had read stuff about not being able to keep a wash longer than a week and the only reason you can with beer is because of the hops. Anyway this makes much more sense! Im going to work on my ph levels and everything By warm I mean 24c Mr piss I would love ...

2 days! Mine would probably take 10 days! Here I thought it was fermenting fast! :oops: Do you add yeast nutrient flakes, and citric acid, and keep it warmer than room temp? Maybe I should seriously upgrade to a distillers yeast... I wanted to stay true to the recipe but I better do something differ...

Its warm in my place and its bubbling away nicely. Uj says to run it after 3 to 4 days.
25l fermenter.
I'm getting good results just wondering if I should let it dry right up like I do with my sugar wash, so not to waste any sugar.
Using fresh bakers yeast no problem with fermenting.

Drier plug in the laundry? All the old greek ladies in the laundry room might look at me funny haha I doubt it, they'd be more likely to tell you your doing it wrong. I think the fatman has the right idea, why not run 2 elements on 1500? If I has access to a big dryer plug that would work wouldn't ...

After 3 to 4 days there is still a lot of sugar left in my wash (not that I bother using my hydrometer... Just taste) Seemes like a waste when I throw out the sweet backset that I don't add to the fermenter. Can I let it sit for 6 days instead(maybe even till it gets dry)? Or is there a flavor thing...

Yeah its a no go... I'm going to run the water lines neater, and move the still just outside the kitchen wall, AND plug in a hot plate by the stove... Not ideal but a solution for now.
Thanks guys! Good advice as always!

Prairiepiss wrote:Drier plug in the laundry?

All the old greek ladies in the laundry room might look at me funny haha

hummm yeah the stove wires are much bigger... shoot guess i'll just have to keep frustrating my wife until we move unless there is another option but i doubt it...

I have my elemet hooked up so that i can plug it into the stove plug. bad idea the wife is pretty sick of me taking over the kitchen... I really need to get an apartment with a garage :roll: So I am going to hook it up to 2 plugs on different breakers. I just use the 2 hot wires and the neutral is n...

Ok that sounds good
Thanks

Thanks!
I have seen this before actually!
Have you ever tried it?

Haha yeah no one noticed it on mine either. I only noticed it because I knew it was there on mine. The product I made was fine, but yeah I would cover it with the teflon. Not much is really exposed on the inside but just for peace of mind I would do it. I only ran mine twice and then I sold it, and ...

Very cool! my first still pot was that exact same old milk pale!!!
http://homedistiller.org/forum/download ... &mode=view

I was worried about that black gasket though... maybe wrapping it with teff tape would make it safe...

I don't have space to malt my own grain yet, so I got thinking maybe I could toast my oak sticks over a fire and toss a bit of peat in too!
think that is a good idea?
I also want to add more grains to my ujsm and try to make a nice scotch.
any ideas or thoughts would be great
thanks!

I have my ujsm bubbling away right now. I'm a little depressed I am only on gen 1 but I will make some nice amereto and whatever the wife wants with it... I have a 3" still and when I realized what the copper packing cost I got really sad, then rubberduck pointed me to MR's lava rock and holy c...

I was too lazy to even do the second distillation and I have just started drinking the maceration that was done at 65% and watered down to 40%now. everyone loves it! I can see room for improvment, but for now it is doing the trick! :wink: eventually I will vapor infuse but for now I want to make a f...

oh cool! thanks!

I'm going to try ujsm and I have a bok still. should I de reflux it? or would i still get flavours running it in reflux but keeping more tails? I don't know anything about pot stilling... just for extra info: I have a 3"bok 60"column, filled with lava rock (thank you mash rookie & rubb...

the search bar up top doesn't work great because it dosen't search titles of threads... you probably all know that, and I assume there is no easy fix to this right? or maybe I am missing something... anyway just wondering if there is a solution to this so i can search things instead of annoying you ...

I'm looking to do a ujsm and I can get whole corn kernels for practically free.
could I blend them!!! I know i have done coffee in the blender and it worked good ( too cheap to buy a grinder)

Ya they're not bad at all are they? It's the cheapest and easiest way to pull 95%+ I've found. Two questions, are you breaking them up into smaller rocks or are you just using them as they come in the bag? What's your approximate run speed and abv? I am just using them as they came with a centring ...

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wacabi1 wrote:My digital thermometer with alarm cost like $10 from Walmart. Stainless probe with about a 2' cord..

good to know!
what brand?

How did it turn out?
I'm thinking of macerating to make up a bunch of essence I can just add to my neutral any time

thanks for the advice! I might try that gravity feed when I move out to the country. living down town doing this in my kitchen ha ha. wife won't want buckets hanging from the ceiling. actually I couldn't because the condenser is already at the ceiling. Thanks rad I will give that a shot. need to inv...

Thanks guys. yeah my second run was better. i need to change a few things with my still for it to work better. rotameter will be a good investment, and a digital thermometer so i'm not up and down checking so much. I think it ran for like 7 hrs! that is too long i had to take off at a dribble. i'm p...

I was thinking maybe putting a clamp in the centre of your oak strip and the take an ax and split a bunch on both ends, giving it a bowtie shape. no wood wasted can compress & re-expand to fit in your bottle, and the peices should not clump together

I just ran my first LM in my new still. I found it pretty stressful! trying to keep the water coming out of the condenser hot but not have any vapours get out... my water pressure is up and down in my apartment so that doesn't help... doing my second run this morning maybe it will be a bit more rela...

I know! i think i'm going to hit the top of the keg on the high side to bend it back in and flatten the 3" ferrel i had welded on top... not the best welder ha ha. can't blame him though he did it in a 10' x 6' crooked shed filled with tools. good enough!

I have acid reflux. i'm drinking a beer and it's burning right now. But when i eat really healthy (lots of vegetables, less fat, not a tone of meat) I don't get the burn at all.
avoiding tomato and coke helps a lot too.