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First I made was lite colored honey poplar and sour wood I was told I liked the taste. Most was drank that winter. Made it twice more since then fella gave me 21 gallons of honey a while back and Ive used all but 3 gallons.It was dark honey mostly clover I was told .It did have a stronger taste did...

Thanks guys. Hey Tater the honey I have is in 5 gallon buckets I can get all I want free. A friend of mine ownes a large bee farm and keeps 5 gallon buckets full of raw honey just sitting around for friends and family. I am going to try your recipe. After you distilled yours how much honey did you a...

Im not sure but I dont think that whiskey yeast with ag works well with added sugar. I think it is for an all grain method.

You should order some Distillers yeast and that will definently work.

I use the flaked corn (MAIZE) and it works great.

How long will honey last?
What can honey be used for as far as distilling is concearned?

I like this apple pie recipe as well.

I have 4 containers that are 8gallons each. I keep 2 going with UJSM. 1 with sugar wash and one with fruit or UJSM. The way I do UJSm is I start both containers at the same time, after fermintation is coplete I syphone into my clearing containers and then start a new mash. After it clears I syphone ...

I stirr mine on occasion, most of the time I will pull the air lock and cover the bung with my thumb and shake very hard and then re-install the air lock.

I thought it had to be done on a porceline plate?

Is this wrong or what?

Did 3 of WPOSW, Followed directions to a T and the first 2 took almost 46 days to complete :( . The third batch I added turbo yest after 20 days and it finished up in 2 more days. I will be trying WPOSW again soon but this time will check PH closer and will try not to use citric acid or gypsum unles...

If not doing a continuos run, I put it in a gallon milk jug and freeze it for using in my next mash. Most of the time if I am going to save it I will pour it over my sugar and let it disolve then pour that into the jugs and freeze.

I keep my distillers yeast in the cabinet with all my other equipment.

Just go to Lowes and get their foil backed insulation for water heaters and a roll of silver tape. Wrap the insulation around your keg or pot leaving the bottom 3" uncovered for flame overlap and you will be suprised at how good this works.

Not to hijack this thread but where is the best place to get these tri clamps here in the USA? Deep South East coast

I have a 2.5 gallon copper water heater that I added a 26" piece of 3/4 pipe to and steped the takeoff down to 1/4 inch tubing x 20' for a worm. I was running it on the stove as a small pot still with out put around 50%. I decided to pack the column with SS scrubers and see what would happen. I...

I would recomend you try the sweet-feed recipe. It is a very easy one to do and makes a good sipping whiskey with lots of flavor.
Or do a UJSM recipe found here on this forum.

That is a very good artical. Now if all the other states would come on board, we could get something done.

You only need as much as it takes to bring your ph where it needs to be. If you start off with a ph of 7 add 1/2 tsp, stirr in good and recheck if its not low enough keep doing this until you get the desired ph. In wposw he only uses 1 tsp full to 6 gal of wash. take a look in tried a true recipe's....

Mr.Spooky wrote:uuuuuuuhhhhh,,, arent airlocks only about a couple o dollars? i found this to be the cheapest part of this whole process. hell, i even bought more than i needed caws they were so cheep.

What he said. .75 cents

This is what I am talking about, my column will go from 2" to a 1/2" take-off and I will add a peice of 1/2" tubing to go down to the worm.

I am getting ready to build a pot still column for whiskey. I have a 18" piece of 2" copper an was going to use a 2" to 1/2 " reducer coming straight of the top of the column.Then down to a coil. Will this work or will it be way to slow? beer keg propane heat. Thanks guys.

Like stated before the hose on the left is for water inlet the hose on the right is water exit. Run the water fast enough just to knock down any steam coming out of the collection end , all you want coming out is liquid.

After you run your still and pull it apart, while the column is still hot back flush it with hot water. NEVER USE SOAP.

I am going to try and use elberta peaches for this recipe, they are bigger and sweater. But I also plan on using the smaller drop peaches from a couple of orchards around hear. I can get the small peaches free after the trees have been picked.

I wound up putting some turbo yeast in my 3rd batch of wposw to get it to finish. The other two batches have been sitting from 4/5/09 until now and are not working. This makes 3 batches so far that something has caused it to stop after the first day. I think I will try it again this weekend without ...

Minime can you please say that in plain english. I don't know exactley what you are talking about.

I have changed over from an old cooling Managment type column with the water line's going through the column at the bottom and top to a VM type column. What do you go buy on equlizing the column Temp Or Time or Both? I dont know if this is corect or not but from my reading on this site it seems to m...

Hey Wineo, I have 2 of your washes going now but I am having problems with both. They both started ok, but on the second day stopped working. I figured the temp was to low so I put both on heating pads and now have them at 78 DEG. that did not help, so I added more yeast to one, and more DAP & Y...

Hey Hawke is your 65 a 138 code SS? I am in the process of a frame of rebuild on my 65 SS at the moment also. I have installed my floorpans,trunk floors and both quarter panels. I have also rebuilt the rear tail panel behind the bumper section, and have the body sanded and blocked from the firewall ...

Is any one on this forum going on the 2009 Power Tour in June other than me? For those that do not know what this event is, Hot Rod Magazine has a multi state cruise here in the USA for people who love old cars. It is usually held every June, and is about 9 days long and covers 7 or 8 state's. We us...