Home Distiller

It seems that alot of these threads having been popping up lately about making 2" columns taller to increase output and purity, if your looking to increase output and maintain purity your going to have to increase column diameter, sure there are ways to slightly increase your output on the 2&qu...

Continuous stills are what the big distilleries use and they make horrible likker, the continous stills do somewhat make cuts but horrible ones at that.....

What abv is everybody getting in an all malted corn mash?

I have a gallon jug of acetone i use for cleaning stuff, it smells exactly like a cheap old bottle of vodka i have...... i wonder what the actual percentage of acetone that is in these shelf likkers.....

Before tasting a properly home distilled product i never noticed the horrid smells that shelf likkers have, going to the bar is completely different now, all of the likkers i taste all i can smell is acetone.... the worst is the higher proof snapps like goldschlager and rumple mintz, they must make ...

Would you happen to have any info on water temp before adding the grain? Like x amount of gallons at x temp and x amount of malted corn to make a x gallon mash?

Thanks for the info dunderhead, i will be trying this shortly

i dont think the shotgun will work worth a shit, the vapor will have a hard time rising into a small tube capped at the top, with a coil it can easily go around the coil, a shotgun needs to have a flow through it i would think

4 liters per hour on a 2"? how are you coming up with that figure? The vapor speed is going to be the speed of light to achieve that. Im not saying it cant be done im just wondering if you have actually achieved this or?

I would take a bunch if that pipe down to the scrap yard and either cash it in and buy the right size stainlezs or copper tube or trade it on the spot for some tube if they have it

Im looking for an all corn recipe, corn, corn malt, water and yeast. I have just about an unlimited supply of corn and have a mill for cracking. Im not interested in sugar head recipes, just all corn, and i will be malting my own corn, i have been experimenting with small amounts of corn to figure o...

All this talk about mixing blackstrap spirits and fancy spirits, why not just start out with a fancy and blackstrap molases wash?

Im really considering addings valves for plate dissabling on my 8 plate 5", for those of you that have done this how well does it work?

You know i thi k your build has opened a few doors, by using the 8" ball its like having an entire 8" column, even after the ball if its 1" the still will act like an 8"column, i bet you are going to get some tremendous output speeds once you get the correct amount of heat to it,...

For what its worth sodium carbonate can be made by baking sodium bicarbonate on a cookie sheet in the oven,

Ive been wondering, does anybody ever make smaller seperate mashes with different recipes and then mix and distill? Say you like the taste of one recipe but want to add another dimension of flavir found in another recipe or one recipe is too overpowering of one flavor so you cut it with a different ...

haha i love the mustache!

what so hard in converting standard??? I can convert all standard measurements in my head, from teaspoon to gallon, inches to feet, miles, fraction to decimal, bla bla bla, we dont need to convert our shit to metric, seems to me that everything built in metric are piles of shit products from overseas

http://www.ebay.com/itm/MOONSHINE-The-Original-Clear-Corn-Whiskey-750ml-Sealed-Bottle-/261021918819?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item3cc61e6663#ht_1035wt_1185" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" rel="nofollow why on earth would someone distill a spirit 4 times? I th...

maybe your next build could be twin side by side fractioning boobs

Cool, I'm looking forward to seeing it, I like th ings that are different than the norm, makes me believe people out there still have imaginations and aren't conformity zombies

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Any updates pp? Id like too see this alien looking still finished

I'm looking for some acceptable ball valves to add to my 5"flute for plate disabling, it would be nice to find some sweat fit ones that are copper, any brass valves out there that are acceptable?

Just use some good ol' oatey safety silver lead free solder

Anybody know any pro's or con"s of running a shorter fatter boiler versus a taller skinnier boiler?

I wish I could have bought some of it but at $600 per 6' piece it was way out of my price range and I probably would never use it for anything, its too big for a hobby column and too small for a boiler, maybe somebody going legal and doing some artisan distilling could have used it but I don't know ...

Stopped by the scrapyard today and my oh my... there sitting on the floor was 10 pieces of 12" copper pipe all about 6' long... they were getting ready to cut it up into smaller pieces so they can put it into they're bailing press, they said it was from a local artist that makes things out of c...

That old keg wouldn't be bad but you would have to buy a tri clamp ferrule and have it welded to the keg, probably another $30 in added cost, that keg is worth the $35, with 304 stainless going for $1.01 per pound , you could buy it and if you decide not to use it you can scrap it for the same money...

Only way your going to make any considerable gains in output is increasing the diameter of your column, trying to make your column taller isn't going to make your output any faster, it will still have the same vapor speed, increasing the vapor speed isn't really an option unless you want crappy spir...