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I Volume... 1 cubic metre = 1,000 litres 1 imp.gal. = 4.54 litres Density... 1 lt water = 1 kg 1 lt molasses = 1. 6 kg (1600 kg/m3 ie cubic metre) Sugar value... Blackstrap Molasses = 46% ................... = 3.34 kg in 4.54 lt ========================================== Thanks for noting Imperial ...

This should help:

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It seems as though you may want to do a stripping run followed by a spirit run.

Are you cutting down the alcohol content or drinking the straight distillate?

Thanks, I'll be interested on your progress.

I am a bit curious as to why you would not preheat with the distillate, the heat is already there and its free!

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Prairiepiss wrote:I use step bits for all my holes up to an inch or so. And hole saws for anything larger. They work much better IMO.

I am a machinist by trade and stoning a drill bit will solve the problem.
Copper and brass require negative attack angles.
This is VERY well known in the trade!

edge.

The drill is too sharp.
You can stone the front of the flute and it should not grab.

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OK, anyone...else with knowledge on dedicated stripping stills?

Total time may be the same, but you would have almost not heat up time. Also, using the waste heat from the pre-condenser would be reducing heating time further, and reuse the heat for free. I have little problem finding an hour here and there, but 5 continuous hours are rare and I would prefer to u...

Time is precious and there never seems to be a lot to work with my hobbies. While I know that I'll be able to find time for a spirit run occasionally, I would like to strip in short sessions. My question specifically has anyone tried something akin to a tube flash boiler? My thought would be a pipe ...

Hmmm...since Rum was originally, and still made from leftover sugarcane residue IE: blackstrap molasses I fail to see why you do not want it!
Unless you are after a light white rum.

I'd be interested in your thoughts.

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In the US we have a "pesky" Constitution! Lawmakers need to find ways to tax people just enough so they don't complain AND that people think someone else is paying it. Not everyone make spirits so if you tax the makers then the drinkers don't see the tax...at least not directly. By law a d...

blind drunk wrote:Plus, I think boiled or close to boiled beer would taste terrible. That's what you'd have after you remove the foreshots. Yuk.

I am pretty sure that most commercial bottled and canned beers are Pasteurized in the US.
A lot are probably only filtered.

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Going from Washington if you want to avoid Baltimore than Gettysburg is almost on your way to Lancaster. There are some distilleries in NYC. Breuckelen Distilling We offer tours and tastings on Saturdays between 12-6pm. Unfortunately Kings County Distillery tours are closed until June. Not sure of y...

LWTCS, thanks

I can get it for about 1.50 per pound from Shop-Rite without any searching!
It seems that some feed molasses, some panela, and some cane sugar to conserve costs should make for a good wash...thanks.

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According to the Rum University Lesson IV : How much sugar do I need to make rum? In the early days, long before industrialized sugar mills, the sugar plantation owner’s table of equivalence looked something like this: 1 Acre of Land equals 10 Tons of sugarcane, equals 1 Ton of sugar, equals 30 Gall...

LWTCS, what SG would you normally get using your panela wash, and how much rum do you yield from 25l?

Thanks, edge.

kenfyoozed, may I ask your recipe, and what you normally pay for fancy molasses?

Thanks.

Thanks, did you use the cloves, pineapple, and raisins for your spice like in Harrys GGGP Rum?

I'll be looking forward to your result.

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Have you seen this? http://homedistiller.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=6975 Yes I did thanks. I guess my problem was that most recipes call for blackstrap. Now the prices I have found the fancy was more than twice the price but admit until recently I did not look except in the supermarket whic...

Thanks for that :) On the use of brown sugar, isn't it just cane sugar with some molasses added / left in it? It would seem that paying about twice as much for brown sugar as for regular cane sugar is adding cost for no reason! It would seem that just add a bit more molasses and a little less white ...

Thanks for the reply, how much is in the case at Sam's?

FYI, my local Agway has 5 gal. buckets of the feed molasses for $28 or about $6/gallon

Here are two threads that I think explain it very well and include movie:

http://homedistiller.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=3597

http://homedistiller.org/forum/viewtopi ... 46&t=13305

OK, back to my preferred product, RUM. It has been suggested that the best still for rum is a pot still, so that is where I am heavily leaning. Most of the recipes call for blackstrap / feed molasses and I bet they are one and the same. Some have suggested Fancy but that seems to be the minority. No...

Thanks all for the insight.
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How do commercial distillers get away with continuous stills?
Isn't everything smeared...including foreshots?

Are the better vodkas batch distilled or is most vodka continuous?

I am mainly looking for rum so will be pot stillin but really curious on this subject.

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My folks moved to XXX County in Virginia in 1980.

That county used more sugar than any other county in the US, and not a week went by that a still was not busted in those Blue Ridge Mountain hollers.
No doubt they are cookin right now

edge.