Home Distiller

I am trying the rice with no sugar. 1.5 gallons rice and 4 gallons of water mixed with a paint mixer while cooking makes a 4 gallon ball of rubber-like glue. I scooped out about a third of this mess and cooled to 160 with a jet of hose water (maybe almost a gallon) and pitched a teaspoon of alpha. A...

So, I ran the nasty concoction last night and held real consistent at between 92 and 94% ABV for just shy of one gallon. Took the first half pint as well as the next pint seperate for an aid in learning how to identify the heads by smell. They are quite distinct. Acetone? Ether? The reflux operation...

I will be using a real tall 3" reflux column. My stove/kettle combination is my idea and is real efficient, at lab scale it boiled 16 oz water in 3 minutes and kept it boiling for 7 minutes on 1 ounce of alcohol. At the testing scale now, it is multi fueled. I'm using propane for now to hold th...

My end product will be fuel, but I have some friends that have volunteered their tastebuds for testing. Doing some experiments in net energy gain. I hope to be able to distill using only the heads and tails coproducts for fuel. I will eventually get a yeast cocktail of my own. I hear a lot of bad st...

I started my first sugar wash Saturday night. I made a straight 6 gallon sugar wash at 1.09 SG and let it cool down slow. I pulled about a third of the volume off and put it in a clean carboy when it was 170 degrees and added 3 more pounds of sugar to the carboy. The rest went into the fermenter and...