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you must like having splitting head aches

i'd quit taking any advice from that friend of yours...especially if they tell you who to vote for....that affects all of us.
the answers are all here.don't be lazy .read them it will save time money and your health

when you soldered the ends and inet and outlet was the area with the hotspot on the bottom?if so you may have a spot of solder that bridges the gap between the two pipes causing heat to transfer directly to the outside...just guessing here

Jkhippie wrote:

stairman wrote:....i'm 3/4s Irish and 1/5 Scotch

That's only 19/20ths. What're you hiding?

the vodka

m 55..live just ne of the far sw city in kalifornistan....if I can't make it myself it pisses me off....i'm 3/4s Irish and 1/5 Scotch

why they would do it at all in panama is a mystery to me....I think the shortest and longest day of the year there is barely an hour diferent
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if I was dictator...I would end this nonsense once and for all....next spring we spring forward 30 minutes and call it a game!!

Compressed heads and fores simply means that your column is stacking the lighter/lower boiling point alcohols in a faster curve to pure ethanol(or a pure as your particular column can make it).The b line pot still has a slower curve more mixed product where the head are slowly dropping in concentrat...

I can't imagine room temperature alcohol with a second or two contact with a plastic funnel could or will have much of a problem...simply because 99% of the product doesn't really touch the plastic at all.put it in the freezer first if you are really that concerned.

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I call a do over....I just got mine built and odin changed the rules!

ps I looked up the disease and it is a result of the inherited trait that copper is in over abundance and causes problems...not the other way around.

would it have been simpler to buy another two 15 dollar plastic trash cans and switch out to a cooler one when the water got too warm?

run a good whiskey recipe through a reflux still and you will be done...oak char ageing is up to you...most Canadian whiskeys I've seen had a pretty light color so don't over oak them....the best part of this hobby is the experimenting.

maybe for the column but if it is used for the coil the heat transfer to the coolant won't be as efficient.....fill a glass with boiling water then filled a copper pipe and tell me which is hotter on the out side faster

since glass is a much better insulator your still will be less efficient than a copper one

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try these guys...fifty pound bags available too

turn up the heat till you get the slightest bit of alcohol steam vapor along with your steady thin stream then dial back the heat a bit till the vapor disappears....at that point your output equals your ability to cool it to a liquid

we will only be upset if you poison someone...I been reading here a year now and followed these wise folks advice and made some great hooch....why you insist on be smarter then people that know more and then getting upset when they try to save your life is beyond me. Excuse me if you are a petro-che...

brilliant...go ahead and tell us how it tastes

please tell us you're kidding

moved all your five gallon barrels into the living room to be near the wood stove to spped things upon a night you would never otherwise even consider a fire

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understood was just kidding ya!

sure...making a water pressure bomb sounds good to me

now that was worth watching I don't know if you folks have the trader joe brand of stores but they have a wine they affectionately call 2 buck chuck aka as Charles Shaw wines...1.99 a bottle and it tastes just fine to me and fooled a buch of wine "experts" At the 28th Annual International ...

scotty1982 wrote: I just wanted to let you guys know i have done my home work . Not just looking for the easy way out. But thank you for that post....

now i'm just a new hobby distiller too so I have a question for you...why would you have built a 3 gallon still if you had done your "homework"?

bowhunt76 wrote:There drinkin water....now go get your self a couple flats of pint mason jars and do as you were told. It works.

the tv show is just that...a show....nothing more then trying to make anyone with this hobby look like complete idiots

Make sure you let it air out for a day or two, makes it easier. If your getting headaches from your likker you must be keeping too much of the heads. It will get easier, just be patient and don't be greedy. the last word above is the problem...collect in smaller jars and slow down the heat input as...

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funny thing about my first and only hydrometer....it was getting funky in it's tube from me not washing thoroughly so I had the bright idea to sterilize it with some bleach and water in its tube. the foam pads were getting ugly.so I left the darn thing in the tube with the water and bleach and the n...