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I second the Harbor Freight one! Cheap enough to buy two, if you have a problem, you have a back up and i have not used the back up.

Yea, my wife has not said anything about the bucket in the dinning room! she calls it my illegal shenanigans!

Yes, would like to know where you got them!

I have a question on cuts. I did two five gallon stripping runs tossing fores on both, then mixed both of them together and diluted to 40% and ended up with 2 gallons for a spirit run. I charged the boiler and collected in 150ml intervals for a total of 1850ml when i stopped fearing that the element...

So, you would run your stripping and spirit run at the same speed?

I didn't know if there was a benefit of running it slower. I thought if i were to run it fast it would strip off flavors like a stripping run.

I really don't get a stream unless i really turn up the heat, otherwise its a fast drip.

Doing a run now 200ml in about 10 mins slowed it down to 15-20 mins 200ml still fast drip.

Just curious to what everyone's take off rate is for a spirit run on a pot still at 200ml ? I just want to see if i am running too fast.Maybe some of you have timed your run.

My first run pot still, i used 9lbs panela and 2 tbsp of Fleischman's yeast and 5 gallons water starting sg was 1.07 ended at .998 Threw away the first 200ml and collected 10 200ml jars after that, started 125 proof down to 80 then stopped. I let it air out for a day or so then started smelling did ...

I use a brew belt. Put it around your bucket plug it in and leave it alone. You can find them at your local brew shop or ebay for $25.00-30.00

I used 1" over 1/2" with wire wrap 24" liebig 5500w, cools it no problem!

Thanks for the reply PP

I have a cleaning guestion. What do most of you clean your buckets,carboys and other equipment with? Star-san, other cleaners or is clean water good enough?

CM for me. Check out a website called Caskers, lots of cool stuff there!

Harbor freight $15.00 and add a heatsink to it. Lots of threads on here about it.

A big thanks to Sugardaddy, i got my panella yesterday! Nice to meet you! I am sure we will do buisiness again!

Hi, i have been lurking around here for a year now reading and reading and just about ready to make a run. I have a 8 gallon pot still with a 2x20 inch column with a 24x1 inch liebig condenser that i polished and added a temp guage. I know that i don't need it but i like the bling (lol) and i think ...

So, would a 35 gallon res be sufficient for a 6 gallon run?

I found some feed grade molasses at the feed store, i ask if it was sulphered or unsulphered and she said that it had a little bit of sulpher in it.. Is there a completely unsulphered molasses? Because i read that you needed a unsulphered molasses.

Could i put section maybe 3 or 4" between the two 90"s and use 2" for the graham and angle the output out ways so it"s further from the boiler? Just asking.

I am ready to build my first pot still tell me if this will work. 2" column 18" tall with two 2" elbows so it will point straight down with a 12" graham condesor 3/8 coil with 1 1/2 jacket? Will this condensor be big enough? Thanks for any input.

I read in one of the post to use a 3/8 take off line oppose to a 1/4...do you have a 1/4 ? or would that matter?

I have done alot of reading about this column and want to use it as a pot still also,can you do this with this column and make a good spirit (rum)..I just wanted to know if anyone has used it as a pot still and what the outcome was?

Thanks for the info...I thought it was imperative that you use a copper pot to get flavored high quality spirit.I will consider a stainless pot. Thanks again

Hi, I am a new-b and I have a question on pots. I have done some reading and have not found the answer I am looking for. I am going to build my own reflux column and was thinking of building a copper pot also. I have noticed that most of the people on here are using kegs and stainless steel pots. I ...