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Merry Christmas, and to those who celebrate another holiday..happy holiday. Safe and happy new year to you all!!

Ok, but the temp on the thermometer is the actually temp of the vapor coming up through the still correct? Yes it is. As stated above the still will basically work itself, the only reason I use temp readings is to help me make my cuts and to know when I am ready to shut down. In the beginning I too...

Copper in the tower cant hurt anything at all. If anything its is a benifit as it cleans your vapor of sulfites. I didnt notice an ABV increase but my product was more trust worthy. :angel: +1 Thanks, thats what I thought. Wasn't expecting reflux, but did think it would clean a little and prevent b...

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This may have been answered before, but if one was to put copper mesh in a 1.5"x 30" column on a pot still would it make a cleaner spirit or even a little reflux?

Welcome, you will sure as hell find all the info you need here. Good Luck

Read through the parent site too. I started off with a simple pot still and a liebig and went on from there. A pot still is probably the easiest way to learn the basics and help you get the theory down. Then move onto a reflux still. It takes so long to really get a grasp of this hobby . These guys ...

I would go with the biggest boiler you can. You are wanting to build your own later. So why not get the boiler that you can use later. No need in wasting money on something that you won't use later. 3 gallons quite small. For a few reasons. 3 gallons you could only charge it with around 2 gallons. ...

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If you don't want to build one there are plenty of places to buy one depending on your budget. However, I wouldn't go anything smaller than 5 gallons and even that is pushing it. Go a little bit bigger and save yourself spending more money on a new boiler later on. Read up and good luck.

I downloaded fil, but it is in zip form therefore it is all jibberish Welcome, you really need to go to the parent site and read EVERYTHING. Its all there man, and this site has helped me from doing suger washes overseas to now starting my first all grain. But you really have to study...and then st...

Hello and welcome from the North.

Welcome!!!!

Part of the problem here in the US is that too many people would rather believe the current spin of fear mongering than to really investigate the facts... There will always be changes and expirations that effect people... And many Americans would rather watch to see if Honey Boo Boo shits her diape...

I am considering moving to west VA as NH is becoming a little too blue for my taste. From what I have seen property and land (must have acres to prep) is cheap, and to top that off you can get free gas on some properties. My questions are how is life there? I am a fiscally conservative libertarian ...

You would be thinking of Koji - Asperligus nigerus (sp?) it breaks down starches into sugars and is often used simultaneously with yeast to convert and ferment at the same time. It is what is employed to make true saki Nah, I know about that I believe it is a fungi. They have these new bacterias th...

whiskeytripping wrote:Here's a good quote that will prove very true

America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.
Abraham Lincoln

Can't argue that.....

Thanks for your service Paramedic. I too have done the basic "prepping" I think it's a good idea to have 1 years worth of food and the like should things get nuts. I would rather be prepared for the worst and be wrong, than be prepared for nothing and it all falls apart. I am in the const...

Bump. Yep. I wonder if by going over the cliff, causing enough havoc, with all it entails, if folks will finally wake up... when their belly buttons are rubbing their backbones, maybe they will wake up... if then, will it be too late??? Its all ready too late brother. They may prevent the "fis...

Sorry BD... Got a little carried away... Not hard to do brother...lol 04, I take it you are a Marine... You guys took some heavy casualties there bro. I got out of the Marines in 98, and tried enlisting in the Navy as a Corpsman later as I was already a paramedic. They wouldn't take me because of t...

Haha, I forgot about your slack gun laws in america IN nz, you have to have a gun licence, (you have to sit a test, learn 7 rules, pretty easy) then you can only carry A-cat guns (.22's 308's big stuff but no fully auto rifles) for rifles you need and E-cat license (very hard to get, but hat lets y...

I believe that a state could usurp the intention of the federal law. You are backwards here. It is the feds which have already usurp'd the states rights. Plain and simple. The 10th amendment is the only way we ever had a constitution, and now the feds fully ignore it, and since states do not have a...

Sorry BD... Got a little carried away... Not hard to do brother...lol 04, I take it you are a Marine... You guys took some heavy casualties there bro. I got out of the Marines in 98, and tried enlisting in the Navy as a Corpsman later as I was already a paramedic. They wouldn't take me because of t...

Richard7 wrote:Your welcome! Of all the decisions I have made in my life being a vet is one I would do again!

SAME HERE BROTHER!!!!!!

Its really not a side issue. Personally I am a libertarian and a constituionalist. I vote R because I feel they would do better at smaller government. ( hasnt really panned out though) BOTH parties destroyed this country. They spent money like drunken sailors and now our kids and grand kids are goin...

Can't move to OZ from the US without a sponsor or a career that will benefit OZ.... Not sure about NZ... I'm game to move over there but the hoops you have to jump through are crazy... Anyone know the rules for moving from the US to NZ? Thats what I heard as well... not that I have ever considered ...

Thanks wacabi!!!!! Awesome site.

yup big HD rider and don't want to be told what to do. I can argue morbitity/ mortalilty but to each there own. I just don't like the gov telling me what to do... Been in the miltary 14 years and I DO believe in that oath I took. Plus some things mean job security for me....lol

Move to Texas or Oklahoma, jes don't bring those ways with you... LMAO!!! I know NH use to be "Live Free or Die"...funny all the people from MA moved up to get away, and decided to try making us the same. Ain't bringing that stuff anywhere...straight out prepper, leave me alone I leave yo...

I am considering moving to west VA as NH is becoming a little too blue for my taste. From what I have seen property and land (must have acres to prep) is cheap, and to top that off you can get free gas on some properties. My questions are how is life there? I am a fiscally conservative libertarian a...

Yup, those of us who make kimchi, hot sauces, sourkrouts, salsas use bacteria Lactobacillus, and Bacillus to preserve them. The basic concept is that the good bacteria will prevent bad bacteria from forming and stop spoilage. I actually use yogurt to inncoulate my finished products so they will ferm...