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I am going to give this a shot but was wondering a few things. 1. male to female connectors once connected do you have to use plumbers tape around the threading so that the still does not leak out? 2. what did you use to bend the plate tip down after it's soldered on ( i can imagine it being difficu...

gingerbreadman im in ontario aswell where do you find feed store's what are they usually called i have no idea what they are and what kind of stuff i can buy in there other then cracked corn.

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you are probably right , i did the same wash 3 times and the first 2 were fine the third one i remember racking it straight to the boiler, i must of rushed it i will let all my washes clear next time. So your saying since i like to have taste in my distill it's ok to run it just once or whats the pr...

to me it smellt a little yeasty with a little bit of corn but the yeast smell over powered the corn.

Hi i brewed a corn whisky, but after 2months it still has a heavy smell but the taste is amazing, it smells strong of esters. I read a little about it but i think it's becuase i put about 1/4cup of bakers yeast in the fermenter, also it might be the way i distilled it correct me if im wrong again i ...

would this be considered a whisky if you add oak to it anyone try?

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what would you classify this under would it be a whisky if oaked? or is it more like a vodka?

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i would just like to add that i used 50grams of bakers yeast to find out 3 weeks later im only down to 1040 about 5% abv so i pitched another cup of bakers yeast and it's bubling like crazy again. So half a cup or even 1 cup will really speed things up and is very important.

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thank you so much violentblue. that is the exact answer i was looking for :) btw tater for the brandy i made i only ran it once through the pot stil, it was coming out at 65% from the Pot then i oak it, came out really good i was impressed. Now i got to find out where i can get step by step info on ...

thank you all for this great site very informative. But i have 1 question please try not to laugh hehehe. Anyway i have done 4 bottles of brandy im new to this i'm about to do whisky but read that i should pass it once fast and then a spirit run. after i do a quick run and im about to do a spirit ru...

hi, I'm new to distilling but have been brewing all grain beers and all grape wine's for 8 years now. Here's my problem i just built a distiller out of a rice cooker that has warm and cook button's on it im running a 3/8' pipe into a bucket of cold water. I have a digital thermometer in the rice coo...