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Represto, have you run it again? If so, how did it go? Notice the same off smells or flavors?

I know what you mean, punkin...
Almost a chalky-like bitterness?
The right amount of lemon or lime juice can help take care of that.
Experiment with the amounts.

It's all new to me...but I must say, I DO like it.

I've missed this place alot.

I see a WHOLE LOT of changes in people's methods,recipes,still designs, etc...I'm in awe.
It's gonna take a while for me to get caught up.

Tater,THM,GS,UJ,etc,etc,etc............wow,guys...the site looks great.

Hey all....
It's been a while.

How's everyone been?
Yeah, I'm still runnin here and there, just not as often as I wish I had the time for.
Anyway, hopefully I can find the time to make it back here a bit more often.


~pot

$12.50 for 5 gallons at the feed store here.

I also agree that 2400w is probably way too much.
How big is your boiler?

tater wrote:got myself 3 vintage campers a 14 ft1956 burro 15 ft 1961 nomad and a 12 ft 1969 shasta.

My old man had a '69 Shasta when I was a kid. We took it all over the place, then he traded it in for a Cobra Motor-home.

I believe you are correct. :D Some of the opponents of ethanol fuel say this is even true on a large scale and believe if it weren't for subsidies farmers and ethanol manufactures would be losing money. I don't take sides in this fight. Each has studies to prove they are right. But even the best st...

It works just as good as store-bought rain-x

Also, killing ants.

The wife like using my good stuff from the reflux still for bathroom/kitchen cleaner. She says it is the best cleaner she has ever used......I said "it's the best household cleaner I have ever drank",lol.

good to know,
Thanks.

Wow. Where'd the poll go...I thought we were voting... How 'bout some facts? Methanol is zeotropic in a water/methanol/ethanol mixture. It can indeed, and does in fact boil off and concentrate in the heads. It is also present throughout the distillation process, and though I don't have handy refere...

I got my wife(lmao) a 47" plasma TV. I got my kids 4-wheelers. I told the kids if they didn't behave, Santa would leave snowman turds in their stockings. So, I am gonna put a couple marshmallows in their stockings, and tell them it's snowman turds. lmao For myself.....not sure yet, Probably a 5...

Pothead If you are looking for a name for your lemon liqueur it's an Italian liqueur called "lemoncello" and you have nailed the recipe. I also make a lemon-lime just like it...it's been in the wiki for a couple years. I had no idea that that is how they made lemoncello But now that I kno...

How do you all rate this as compared to UJSM?

I might just do this stuff next

No I am not going to drop it because you are propagating a myth that you are avoiding the methanol by tossing the foreshots, when all I am trying to to do is warn all the noob that all the distilled spirits contains some methanol and it is not being eliminated by tossing the foreshots. The point is...

First of all your poll is a little tainted in the fact of the way you askedthe question. Of course we toss the foreshots, but not because of the methanol. It is because they taste and smell bad just like most of the heads. You have not given any conclusive evedence that the foreshots has any more m...

do you have any pictures?

I know a guy that put a glass carboy on his stove so that he could melt his sugar quicker....lol...well, the fire broke the glass and 5 gallons of sugar water spilled ALL over the kitchen. the poor guy slipped in it and fell, and got a GIANT piece of glass stuck right in his ass-cheek. NO LIE. I sti...

but, noobs will and have seen where someone said "the first shot off the still won't kill you"

ANd I think that is BAAAAD info to be spreading to noobs...don't you?

There might be 75% of the methanol in that first 100ml. H. I would also like to add that there are many contributing factors as to how much methanol is present in the fermented wash. Was there alot of stress put on the yeast? were the seeds left in the fermenter during fermentation?, was the temp w...

Here ...I found this.......give it some thought before you start poisoning the members of this site. : "While methanol itself is only mildly intoxicating, it is converted to highly toxic metabolites responsible for acidosis, blindness , and potentially death." I got that from this site: ht...

just want a general consensus

Pothead, you must have some false notion that all the methanol comes off with the foreshots. It comes off with a linear decay in strength with the whole run from a pot still just like the ethanol. There is a lot of gas chromatigraph data that shows as much. It is also documented in http://homedisti...

Thats what I was thinkin, tater...I ferment in the basement, and in the winter, my ferments take forever.......
then again, I got a woodstove this year, so might be better.

NICE!!

I bet they cost a bundle.
Have you checked on prices yet?
If so, let us know.

not removing foreshots????? That swill wouldn't tough my lips. ya know that headache your getting the next day.....the one in the back of your eyes..... It's called methanol.....or POISON. It was in the wine and if you drank to an equivalent amount of drunkedness on the wine you would have drank th...

not removing foreshots????? That swill wouldn't touch my lips. ya know that headache your getting the next day.....the one in the back of your eyes..... It's called methanol.....or POISON. even in small doses is poisonous. Take the amount of methanol that is in 3 gallons of wine (probably considerab...

even in my potstills I never got any tomato flavor.

My advice, slow it down.

slow it WAY down.......
and do alot more reading.

it may be too acidic. I like making a neutral spirit, then soaking the zest of 3 lemons(I use a potato peeler to take the zest off without any pith) Soak it in about 750ml for about a month or 2, then make some sugar syrup with about 1-3 cups of sugar, then add it slowly till it taste right. I have ...