Home Distiller

Well i have another keg and will start on it this weekend this time i will take photos this keg is not as bad as first after I remove the dents to the welding shop it goes to be moded

Many of the users of this site like me got there kegs from a salvage yard. It was scraped by the distributor because it was dented so deeply it would not hold 15 gallons much less 15.5 it was still air tight. I used it awile as it was but i thought damm its ugly.As everyone knows removing dents from...

Great news today my Girlfriend was on craigs list and found me a new still its a brewhaus a pot still head nothing special came with hoses and all need to finish moding it to be safe but 100 dollors and it was mine thank you to my wonderful girlfriend makes the sting a little less

well good news people i have water now and craigslist rocks a brewhaus pot still for a 100 bucks labled home brew in the house hold goods section still head not so great but its a start got pumps hoses and two buckets with bubblers two has to mod it a little like a copper take off tube but not bad i...

thanks I appreciate the input i think if someone told me something crazy would cause a better wash i would try it lol

While on vacation I went on a brewery tour where they use beechwood ageing the wood is boiled befor they put it in the tanks. They said its not for flavor its to create more surface area while ferminting it lets the yeast work beter i was wondering after i put a new colum together i may try useing m...

its crazy what some people will do for money its wierd that more wasnt taken my guns and other things were left i even think they used my tools to do it and thanks for that last post it did help.What they dont know is i know the guys at the scap yard well and they know to keep a look out for it I do...

No the boilers i had stolen were to kegs nothing special I did find my old milk can stashed away in a box i guess they took them ether to get beer or scap them I just had a plane old still head was a lm with the cross pipes bent in a v to center it worked ok but i will build a bigger and better one ...

By the way you guys are bad influences im going to go nuts house is a mess and its the last thing on my mind. I m thinking about building a http://homedistiller.org/forum/viewtopi ... 3#p6841733 to replace old one just a fyi i found one of my old boilers all is not lost

yes $3000

I do live away from others Im just glad all they hit was basement and not everything else like electric wires and pipes up stairs they cut from the shut off till it went to rest of house looken at about 3000 bucks just to fix it thanks to the discount not more my old lady not to happy about hole sit...

The good thing about it is i work in the heating industry so when it comes to sweating pipes im good and thank god my boss will let me use his discount to get new water pipes my old colum was pieced togther from old pipe from our jobs cleaned well of course

Its a sad day after coming home from a 2 week vacation i went to take a shower and i discoverd no water. After i went to see what the problem was I discovered that my home had been broken into the theives took all the copper water pipes and my still colum keg boiler and anything else they could take...

And i hope to see if i can dig up some pics if any are left most of the pic from back then burned in a house fire a few months ago

I can remember growing up and watching my granddad malting his corn in a burlap bag that it came in. He just placed it buy the cookstove during the winter in a #3 wash tub and kept it moist then to dry it he would spead it out on the quilting frame my grandmother had hanging from the ceiling in the ...

Well fellas I know alot but I still have alot to learn. All the things i grew up doing with pop taught me alot about shine but the old ways. I want to learn the new ways and refine my skills amd get a shine that will daze and confuze the drinker. In the time i have read this site I learned so much a...

I have used the scubbys before

I have heard to use marbles as packing thinking of trying it out any ideas if this will work or should i stay clear of it.

You start of with the second run of a sugar wash at least 160 proof i add the skins of 6 oranges and 2 lemons and a cup of fresh spruce bows added to the pot to let steep 24 hours. run like normal it will pick up all the flavors of the botanicals after it runs its like a sort of gin then here is the...

Hello to the HD universe i have alot of experiance in the old school backhills bootlegger distilling the first thing i remember from my youth is my grandfather having me climb int this pot still to clean it. Ive seen fine moonshine and bad i know that you get what you put into it. If you rush anythi...