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- Sat Nov 22, 2014 4:27 am
- Forum: ** Welcome Center **
- Topic: السلام عليكم from.......well you can probably guess :)
- Replies: 12
- Views: 1640
Re: السلام عليكم from.......well you can probably guess :)
A more powerful burner will get your boiler up to speed quicker, but when the first drips come out you can choose to continue at high speed for stripping, or at low speed for an output that can be cut. Stripping runs cannot be cut because the heads/hearts/tails are completely mixed up...there will b...
- Wed Nov 19, 2014 1:19 am
- Forum: ** Welcome Center **
- Topic: السلام عليكم from.......well you can probably guess :)
- Replies: 12
- Views: 1640
Re: السلام عليكم from.......well you can probably guess :)
Hi, I figured I left quite a bit behind; but I wasn't sure what was going on, since the temp dropped and the distillate stopped flowing. I figured I was better off safe than sorry later on. I still have some 100L of wash (mostly TPW from the recipes I found floating around) to play with, and I've a...
- Wed Nov 19, 2014 12:57 am
- Forum: Pot Distillation/Thumper and Design
- Topic: Bobbing Alcometer
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1163
Re: Bobbing Alcometer
The bobbing is caused either by turbulence of the incoming stream, or variations in the alc content. Ram a stainless scrubber into the bottom of the parrot to calm the influx. If this does not work then your alcometer is reading the true alc fluctuations.
- Mon Nov 17, 2014 12:18 am
- Forum: Novice Distillers
- Topic: solder w/ cig lighter?
- Replies: 25
- Views: 7034
Re: solder w/ cig lighter?
If your trying to save a buck.... :D :D :D http://youtu.be/XFw7U7V1Hok" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" rel="nofollow Let us know how it works out for ya!! I'm only messin around, not serious! :wave: Great video. Those rear projection tv's have some serious stuff ...
- Thu Nov 13, 2014 4:27 am
- Forum: Novice Distillers
- Topic: solder w/ cig lighter?
- Replies: 25
- Views: 7034
Re: solder w/ cig lighter?
I solder 3" pipes with a lighter all the time. Solder is like candle wax...lick the flame on a brick of solder and the solder drips off. Let some of the drips fall into the joint and even the thickest coppa is jointed...easily as strong as candle wax on a girder. OK; I use the lighter to light ...
- Tue Nov 04, 2014 3:38 am
- Forum: Column Builds
- Topic: need your feedback on column....
- Replies: 37
- Views: 4893
Re: need your feedback on column....
Feedback on a column happens according to the thermometer. Heat input, the coolant flow, and the boiler mix all play their part in the thermometer temp. Columns work according to a thermometer. Pot stills work according to ABV. Gaskets must seal against leaks...no leaks allowed in any still...do wha...
- Sun Nov 02, 2014 1:58 am
- Forum: Boilers
- Topic: Concrete boiler
- Replies: 18
- Views: 3725
Re: Concrete boiler
There's foamed concrete, and concrete mixed with styrofoam and other stuff. Replace the aggregate with air holes and you have insulation.
I used plaster-of-paris mixed 50/50 with vermiculite. This can be smeared on and built up layer by layer. A chicken wire mesh inside will make a strong shell.
I used plaster-of-paris mixed 50/50 with vermiculite. This can be smeared on and built up layer by layer. A chicken wire mesh inside will make a strong shell.
- Wed Oct 29, 2014 5:00 am
- Forum: Off-Topic Discussion
- Topic: I live you, man...
- Replies: 92
- Views: 6999
Re: I live you, man...
All in the spellin. Ask the wizzard about spells.
- Mon Oct 27, 2014 3:55 am
- Forum: Novice Distillers
- Topic: How much packing do you use in a Bokakob?
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1444
Re: How much packing do you use in a Bokakob?
The slower and cooler the ferment, the more care needed against infection. Beer and wine brewers have to take extra care for brews going on for months. Brewing for the still is fast and dirty...lots of yeast...higher temps...all done in two or three weeks. Infections can't get a leg in, but the brew...
- Mon Oct 27, 2014 3:17 am
- Forum: Off-Topic Discussion
- Topic: I live you, man...
- Replies: 92
- Views: 6999
Re: I live you, man...
The third is one two many...aah the forth not enough...
- Thu Oct 23, 2014 2:58 am
- Forum: Novice Distillers
- Topic: How much packing do you use in a Bokakob?
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1444
Re: How much packing do you use in a Bokakob?
Yes clean those scrubbers; 24 hrs seems too much, just 1 hour should let the vinegar do it's thing. Pack the scrubbers in tight enough so that you can breathe easily through the column or as Rad says, ' provide decent functionality' :) . Extremely tight packing may inhibit breathing. Fake scrubbbers...
- Wed Oct 15, 2014 3:35 am
- Forum: Novice Distillers
- Topic: Head and tails for flavour in cuts, Tails for tempering.
- Replies: 18
- Views: 2738
Re: Head and tails for flavour in cuts, Tails for tempering.
Start with the purest hearts you can. Hearts are for drinkin, but they can be adulterated with heads and tails for taste...more or less according to taste or greed.
- Wed Oct 15, 2014 2:51 am
- Forum: Off-Topic Discussion
- Topic: Have a quick question.
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1079
Re: Have a quick question.
+1 moosemilk. Any pot will do 90% in the early stage if you run it slow enough. but pots are not made for this. A reflux still should do 95% easily when it's run slow. Running slow increases the ABV regardless of the still. Do it with what you have. Tune your still as best you can while not forgetti...
- Tue Sep 16, 2014 1:07 am
- Forum: Novice Distillers
- Topic: Distillers activated carbon
- Replies: 14
- Views: 1899
Re: Distillers activated carbon
I find distillers activated carbon very useful. It's not a filter as such, more of an absorber of smells and flavors that pass through the finest filters. The best way to use activated carbon is to add a small quantity to the container of spirit and let it stand for a few days weeks or months. The h...
- Mon Sep 15, 2014 5:19 am
- Forum: Mashing, fermenting, flavoring and aging related hardware
- Topic: Cold weather setup
- Replies: 13
- Views: 3241
Re: Cold weather setup
Basically any heat source will do. If the source is weak it will run continuously and if it's strong it will cycle on and off if it has a thermostat. An airtight box is as inportant as the insulation. Lights are not the best energy wise unless they are heat lamps. Here's mine, outside is a digital t...
- Sun Sep 14, 2014 2:20 am
- Forum: What Not To Use/Do
- Topic: About flux
- Replies: 26
- Views: 8637
Re: About flux
All fluxes are lead free. Lead is not a flux. Go for lead free solders and let the cleaning deal with the fluxes.
- Sun Sep 14, 2014 1:06 am
- Forum: Sugar
- Topic: Sugar wash heads and tails
- Replies: 18
- Views: 12686
Re: Sugar wash heads and tails
All-Grain washes struggle to get enough sugar to be a problem. Sugar washes can go as high as you dare. Yeasts are naturally coded for A-G, but not yeasts genetically modified either by forced selection or gene therapy. Treat your sugar wash like an A-G. Do as the A-G's do with your sugar wash and y...
- Wed Sep 10, 2014 4:56 am
- Forum: What Not To Use/Do
- Topic: About flux
- Replies: 26
- Views: 8637
Re: About flux
Lead-free-flux must mean the flux used for lead-free-soft-solder. These fluxes are either acidic zinc chloride, or the rosin type as used in electronics. The rosin type leaves a more stubborn residue, but is nowhere as good as the zinc chloride for big chunks of copper. Rosin is best for electronics...
- Fri Sep 05, 2014 5:24 am
- Forum: Recipe Development
- Topic: Odin's Lazy Bastard Corn Likker
- Replies: 67
- Views: 11719
Re: Odin's Lazy Bastard Corn Likker
OK, so is DME and LME a kind of molasses of corn syrup? High in sugar plus full of corn goodness?SoMo wrote:He's using a condensed corn product not sugar, kinda like DME but corn.
- Fri Sep 05, 2014 4:57 am
- Forum: Novice Distillers
- Topic: Who keeps there heads and who tosses them
- Replies: 30
- Views: 2866
Re: Who keeps there heads and who tosses them
Early heads are best done once only along with the foreshots. They take the longest time every time, so take the time the first time. I try hard to get the purest foreshots and early heads the first time, and happily toss them never to be done again. Late heads should be the transition between heads...
- Thu Sep 04, 2014 2:51 am
- Forum: Recipe Development
- Topic: Odin's Lazy Bastard Corn Likker
- Replies: 67
- Views: 11719
Re: Odin's Lazy Bastard Corn Likker
Great idea Odin! Corn syrup is the cheapest sugar available in the US thanks to subsidies. May not work in Oz because we subsidise or protect the sugar cane enough to add it to petrol.
- Sun Aug 17, 2014 4:08 am
- Forum: Column Builds
- Topic: Wee bit of confusion about a still
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1990
Re: Wee bit of confusion about a still
Hey greykiwi, a square boiler is no consequence. It's what the columns above are doing.
t's what you do with what the boiler does .
t's what you do with what the boiler does .
- Sun Aug 17, 2014 3:35 am
- Forum: Novice Distillers
- Topic: Cuts by ABV
- Replies: 32
- Views: 5747
Re: Cuts by ABV
Cuts by ABV applies to pot stilling what outputs a variable ABV. The range of ABV depends on the ABV of the charge in the boiler and the speed of the drips coming out the condenser. Reflux stilling outputs a constant ABV in the mid-90's ABV, but heads/hearts/tails can be smeared beyond recognition e...
- Thu Jul 31, 2014 2:48 am
- Forum: Off-Topic Discussion
- Topic: Home made bottle labels
- Replies: 355
- Views: 51180
Re: Does anyone use labels?
Awesome label scow69!
Labels are essential for anything that sits around for more than a week. Secret codes if you have no licence. Friends and relatives love secret codes.
Labels are essential for anything that sits around for more than a week. Secret codes if you have no licence. Friends and relatives love secret codes.
- Mon Jul 28, 2014 4:06 am
- Forum: Tried and True Recipes
- Topic: Cornflakes whiskey
- Replies: 1031
- Views: 259947
Re: Cornflakes whiskey
I have done this using backset and trub; second generation is awesome but third did not work due to ph I think.planethax wrote:I don't think anyone has used the trub for second generations.
Now I do the first generation in order to get the second. Then do the first again.
- Sat Jul 26, 2014 1:40 am
- Forum: Flavoring and Aging
- Topic: All hearts rerun
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1055
Re: All hearts rerun
You found it out! Re-running hearts will give better hearts. This is because you took another cut out of the heads and tails no matter how little they are. With due care and attention the re-run can be got before the re-run. Until then, a re-run is often faster and better than any other after-treatm...
- Sun Jul 20, 2014 1:50 am
- Forum: Pot Distillation/Thumper and Design
- Topic: Proper placement of therm in a pot still
- Replies: 13
- Views: 2030
Re: Proper placement of therm in a pot still
A thermometer on a pot still can tell you one thing...the difference between the ambient temp and when the hot vapors hit the thermometer. The numbers on the thermometer have no meaning after they have done this. Caressing the apparatus by hand leads to the same result. If you feel the top of the bo...
- Sat Jul 12, 2014 4:14 am
- Forum: ** Welcome Center **
- Topic: Thanks againplus need help
- Replies: 6
- Views: 931
Re: Thanks againplus need help
With a pot still your ABV is steadily declining. With a reflux still your ABV is all 95%+....but both of them need cuts to find the hearts. Ferment whatever you have and let your still make the cuts more easier to do. Get the heads out pure as possible. Take the hearts free of heads and tails. Tails...
- Fri Jul 04, 2014 3:49 am
- Forum: Novice Distillers
- Topic: My good deed
- Replies: 15
- Views: 1592
Re: My good deed
Understanding goose eye is a good sign! If he doesn't make sense, it's your fault.
- Fri Jul 04, 2014 3:25 am
- Forum: Column Builds
- Topic: Instantaneous RR measurement
- Replies: 26
- Views: 5155
Re: Instantaneous RR measurement
Instantaneous RR measurement would be nice. It will give another set of readings to look at alongside the many other things to watch. Opening the needle valve wide open during the run and comparing the product output before and after will give the numbers, but so doing will de-stabilize the column a...