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rockchucker22 wrote:I get nervous having fores around, so I burn them same day as charcoal lighter fluid.

Makes great charcoal lighter.

Hey guys, I am pretty new to distilling, I have done 7 or 8 successful sugar/turbo runs. I decided to get away from turbo yeast and got some EC-1118 and nutrients. I made 16lbs of sugar up to a 6.5 gallon wash, added 6 teaspoons of nutrients, made sure the wash was cooled enough and added two packs...

No, Use copper

OK, I am now confused. I built a liebig almost identical with the one hookline built with the 1/2" inside and the 3/4" outside with the wire soldered to the inside pipe and wrapped around the tube. I also built a double condenser coil. I plan to build a VM still with a keg as my boiler an...

When I "over indulge" a little I don't get hangovers, I wake up in the morning still a little drunk.

NO! Go read this site for a couple of months then get back to us.

A thumper is just a secondary boiler powered by the primary boiler. I know folks use glass thumpers, but I doubt it's smart. I mean think about it... a glass boiler? It's not even rolled borosilicate glass. Mason jars are cheap glass made in a mold. Do whatever yall think best, this is just my two-...

Add water.I use distilled water myself. If it's 80% and you add the same amount of water it will be 80 proof.

Stainless steel, I was surprised at just how thick the copper is in the bottom of the pan. There was a very thin layer of stainless on the inside, it is mostly copper.

I used a dremel with a cut off wheel, Go real slow and wear safety glasses, those little wheels come apart with a vengence

When I made my boka I used a copper clad sauce pan and silver soldered the column right to the pan and made some clamps to attach the pan to the keg. I'll try to post some pics.

Someday if I get to retire before I die I want to live in the Puget sound area on a boat. Fished there many times, kids live there, wanna be there.

I wrapped the top 16" of the outside of my column with 1/4" tube and ran the output water from my double helix coldfinger through it, seems to work pretty good for me. This pic is early in the project before the coldfinger. The hose clamps and wood is research and development.

I tried it with some sweetfeed whiskey and medium toast american oak chips, works great!

OMG! I've been poisoning myself for to years?

Very nice, Looks real clean.

Because the government says I can't and I'm sort of a rebel.

Because my granddad spent 2 years in prison in the 30s for bootlegging

Because it's fun

Because I don't like paying taxes on booze.

Sorry about that, the temp. got to 225 in the keg not 125. What I have is a stainless steel 15 gal. beer keg for the kettle and built the reflux column according to the one in the Blume book. The recipe I used came from an online and was for 100 gal. of water. We wanted to go small just to see if w...

noobshine wrote:trying to malt 6 lbs of feed corn. this is scattered all throughout my corn. can anyone tell me what the hell this is? whatever it is its sprouting before my damn corn

Looks like buckwheat

Actually, accurately reading your hydrometer will tell you the weight loss. If you start a 5 gallon batch at 1.080 it would weigh in at 1.080x 8.34x5=45lbs. If it finishes at .990 it would weigh .990x8.34x5=41.28 so the loss in weight of a typical ferment (not including grains/just liquid) would be...

I'm pretty new but the way I see it is distilling is like BBQ, low and slow is the way to go and add a helping of patience.

I go with whiskey sour mix

I think Prairie hit it on the nose. 15.5 keg.. You can run 10-12 gal runs or 5 gal runs. You can't run 10 gal runs in a 5 gallon keg unless you are on Moonshiners, then you get 20 gallons out of it. 15 gal keg is the ticket. I got another this morning off of craigslist for $25 Are you implying that...

Might be kind of interesting to place a small container of fresh wash on on a scale and map the weight loss during fermentation.

YES! YES! Give us MORE! We want it all!

Nice rig, Just replace that plastic take off with copper and Bobs yer uncle.

Welcome aboard.

Last nite a micro brewer friend gave me 5 gal of 9% triple belgium & 5 gals of 8%oatmeal stout that he wasnt happy with. Been reading up and believe im going to potstill and age on oak. Any opinons on weather it will make a decent whiskey bobtail The way I understand it is that the hops have oi...

wv_hillbilly wrote:Weight will drop throughout the fermentation process, as the heavier sugar is replaced with the much lighter alcohol. Hence the drop in SG. If you ferment out dry below a 1.0 SG, you are actually lighter than the same amount of water.

That's what I was thinking to, Thanks.

from the time i decided to do it, it was a year and a half of slowly buying parts and researching. i think that was half the fun, of course pouring over all the information on this and other forums can really consume you. i changed direction a few times on which still i was going to build, and what...