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Brain scans show people literally DO love the objects they own, at least the really important ones like cell phones and cars. You should love your still, no shame. :thumbup: I also love my pip boy. Built my still in vault 101 and hauled it all the way to meresti station ;) Bearriver should get thst...

Lol I never really left just don't have much to contribute usually. Just lovin having a great still and making good booze

There are picsmof my still around here somewhere but its your basic samahon keg pot still. No thumper

So I don't post a whole lot but I built my still from knowledge here about a year ago. This thing is so predictable and easy peasy to run. I usually do generational runs putting everything from one generation into the next and so on and after 3 generations I can tell you that the proof of the first ...

Interesting I have a big ole juniper bush in my backyard and I love gin so I have been looking longingly at it so I appreciate the write up. Not familiar at all with infusing so I'm interested to see the feedback here.

I have my coil in a 5 gallon bucket and my cooling water in a garbage can beside it. I out a small fountain pump in the garbage can and pump it into my condenser then a drain at the bottom returns it to the garbage can. It takes a good 6 hour run before the water heats up and I have to introduce mor...

I have a very similar setup from what I can tell except I have 10' of 3/8 coil as my worm. Honestly the 3/8 works great for me. Mine was the per coiled in a box as well and I just carefully rewound it around about a 10" pipe then put spacers in between the coils and mounted it in a 5 gallon buc...

" I threw in some bicarb" if it was sodium bicarb, yeast don't like that either ,that is the sodium part. most times you can git away with some but if to much it can slow or stall. sodium in yeast bread works as a "regulator" that is it slows the yeast and the yeast produce smal...

On my recent rum run by the 3rd gen I was worried that it was getting to acidic so I threw in some bicarb. However lacking test strips I think I overdid it and the ferment stalled. The end product still came out great just a little lower abv than I had planned. Long story short its worth investing i...

One more thing toluene is a skin irritant so if you use it wear rubber gloves. If you get it would on your arms or anything like that it burns pretty good for a few minutes. Last week someone set down a rag at work that was soaked in it then picked it up. I sat down on that spot and my honey was on ...

So don't ask why I wanna know just yet cause this might be a "hold my beer ima try something" moment

How much volume do you think 20 lbs of pureed bananas would take up. Or any ideas on pounds per gallon?

I have and use toluene at work everyday its nasty nasty stuff I would be very careful with it and most importantly only use it in a VERY well ventilated area. Seen guys pass out from the fumes before they even knew what was happening

Update time. I filtered off all the flavoring and set it up for some long term aging on just the oak. That's the plan anyway....I just can't seem to stay out of it! Holy crap its good! Smells amazing tastes even better even at 100 proof its very smooth when mixed with coke or my favorite Dr pepper. ...

Been 1 week and it just keeps getting better. I think I have decided to use a little less molasses next time though

I use the burner from my cousins old keg smoker. Best part is it was free 99

Well if you're familiar with a stripping run why not s spirit run....

Anyway dilute it to 40% and run it all again as a spirit run. Do your cuts and enjoy

To be honest I had little knowledge of what type of animal ate molasses. In England the cows are served up their own poop with some straw mixed in. It's digusting, but one good thing about it is we sell our beef to the French. Hahaha poetic justice right there! You can find different kinds of molas...

Awesome thanks for the links guys I can always count on HD. I would have searched for discount vanilla beans if I had any idea that they were so expensive but on the day I went looking I just had to suck it up and buy them because I needed to get it going and already had all the other ingredients. A...

Just filtered it off and picked out as much of the clove as I could find. Kinda hard to find it mixed with the wood chips. While I was at it I poured off a finger on ice. Getting plenty of vanilla smells and flavors and the citrus is starting to come through. I'm really thinking that this is going t...

I found a nice 10 liter jar to age in at Tai Pan Trading Company for $20. Kinda looks like a barrel even.

Its been going just over 24 hours and as I gave it its daily stir I tasted it and honestly its not to shabby. I think you guys might be right on the cloves though. I think I might give it one more day then filter it and try to get as much of the Clove out as possible then let it sit a total of 2 wee...

Interesting but doesn't sound remotely fun to drink...more like a joke you play on the one guy at the party who is being a dick

Just gonna clarify cause it seems like you're on the right track but maybe just using some incorrect terminology. Fore shots you want to ditch all together. The heads and tails you can keep for an all feints run later or you can add it all to your second run heads hearts tails and all just make sure...

Anyone else wanna chime in?

It should work just fine as long as you figure out a good way to clamp the lid on.

As for the thermometer it doesn't matter where its located because its a pot still you need to forget it exists at all.

Its 2 gallons at 50%

So here is what I ended up with 4 vanilla beans sliced n scraped 10 cloves 3 cinnamon sticks 6 all spice berries 20 black peppercorns 3 pinches of nutmeg 4 slices of fresh ginger 4 strips of orange zest 2 oz dark toast oak 2 oz light toast oak http://i1323.photobucket.com/albums/u586/utahviking/IMG_...

I thought about it overnight and I'm thinking I will do double or triple the 750 recipe and then taste it after a few weeks. I'm going to oak it as well.

Exactly what I was thinking. I have the ability and the desire to age it all together at once , so that's why I'm trying to get this figured out for 2 gallons. Any more ideas on how to adjust this?

OK so I have seen variations of basically this recipe. 1 (750-mL) bottle Rum 1 Vanilla bean 1 (3-inch) slice Orange peel, white pith removed 1 Cinnamon stick 2 Allspice berries 4 Cloves 6 Black peppercorns pinch Ground nutmeg 1 slice Fresh ginger, about the size of a quarter So a gallon has 3785.411...