Home Distiller

Dude, you need a hobby! :lol: What do you mean? Isn't blowing shit up a hobby? Good to know that the solder on stainless is plenty strong. Heck yeah it is! Should see what happens when you use an ordinary house vacuum to empty a five gallon bucks of gas. Especially an old school metal Hoover vacuum...

gas from my stove with a 5gal stainless steel pot. possibly too much or not enough heat/flame? I get the feeling it may have been cooling too quickly once it hit the bucket but the water on the top was warm and the bottom was very cold, maybe I should just fill 1/2 the bucket until it all get warm ...

Teddysad wrote:Welcome.
If you talk the same way you type, I suspect no one else could ever get in a word edgewise

The post sounds just like my wife , and I feel the same way

Make it fit!

I have a number of old fruit trees I use the printings from for my smoker, mainly apple but a taste of pear.
Living in the PNW, it is usually salmon, elk, and deer meat being smoked. Never rolled a fatty like that. Going to be firing up the smoker sometime in he net few weeks, I'll give it a try.

Copperhead Road (Steve Earle) Well my name's John Lee Pettimore Same as my daddy and his daddy before You hardly ever saw Grandaddy down here He only came to town about twice a year He'd buy a hundred pounds of yeast and some copper line Everybody knew that he made moonshine Now the revenue man want...

Wish that I was on ol’ Rocky Top, down in the Tennessee hills; Ain’t no smoggy smoke on Rocky Top; Ain’t no telephone bills; Once I had a girl on Rocky Top; Half bear, other half cat; Wild as a mink, but sweet as soda pop, I still dream about that; Once two strangers climbed ol’ Rocky Top, lookin’ f...

As my takeoff is on the cap (as every pot still is I believe) it just depends on what direction I put the cap on. The last time I set it up was at night and it was almost freezing and I had a little camp fire next to it. Which side the arm came off the pot all depended on which chair you were sittin...

Unless your hiding up in the Ozarks or Appalachias, and running a big old copper still with an oak barrel thumper over a wood burning furnace made out of local flat rocks and mud, at night time, next to the stillin' hut, your just "Home Distilling". During the Depression moonshining was n...

I went solder less and just used flour to begin wih too, but after takin it apart a couple times it must have loosend the joints and flour paste no longer did the trick

I believe a slow heat is best for initial warmup as it helps distishing the cuts, or at least the first one. Helps not bleed them together. A novices thoughts anyways.

russman wrote:

Mrcram wrote:Yeah. Seems like Russman and I got some fixing to do.

Yeah, I guess we could tig weld a cap on the column?

looks like there are at least three of us within a few miles of each other, we should get together......

Not a bad idea

I've only been here a month or so and it surprises me how many locals are popping up. Welcome abord from Clark County.

Hi. So I was looking for keg kettle on craigslist and came across what you see in my setup. That's awesome! I bought the same one from the same guy yesterday too! He did seem to know what he was about once he opened up... I'm over in Vancouver, we better compare notes as we move along! Didn't take ...

Coyote wrote:Figured you to be from the correct state with the Beaver on the refer.!.
Coyote

That's funny, I noticed the Timbers hat but not the Beaver.
I also notice what I believe was that setup on Craigslist not too Long back. I'm 30-40 miles North of the river. Welcome to ya!

Late 30's, married with a teenage son that laughs at his mother when she is actually surprised by something I do, like when she came home to find me stillin' in the front yard when she didnt know i'd made a still. Ex addict, former meth cook. Happy to have made the transition from cooking crystals t...

Prairiepiss wrote: 70abv is not unheard of from a pot still. The entire collection, or the first bottle? I come close to that, getting 67-69abv with my pot, but only for the first quart jar. The second is usually around 60, the third 50-55. I have a feeling of what kind of responses may come from t...

Get down and come in! Glad you have arrived. I only beat you by a few weeks but have none of the know how. Last generation? Need a son to adopt?

I am a professional gardener. I grow things. You know, for medical purposes.

I know a manufacturer in Oregon that keeps no lists, doesn't even ask a name. Relievers throughout Oregon and southern Washington

I've been doing corn/sugar washes (5lbs corn 6lbs sugar). The last couple batches instead of emptying the carboy I've left the lees and put half the corn in the next batch. The bubble rate (is there a term for this) is way higher, so many tiny bubbles the wash is so cloudy you can't see an inch in t...

Yes, there is a way to put the rep option in, that's what I was saying, also pointing out i know of someone who did just that I am sure would be willing to share the know how if it was so desired There is no requirement to give rep points for everything you agree with, nor any requirement to ever gi...

singlemalt, you are a prime example of the post count meaning nothing. You always bring solid info to the table. Say goodbye to your paranoia. IMO your input is always appreciated. +1 I keep seeing posts like this stating +1, but from what I can tell it is an arbitrary count. Another forum I have f...

Hoping she will

singlemalt, you are a prime example of the post count meaning nothing. You always bring solid info to the table. Say goodbye to your paranoia. IMO your input is always appreciated. +1 I keep seeing posts like this stating +1, but from what I can tell it is an arbitrary count. Another forum I have f...

I wonder how many posts done by the masters were either "do your welcome center reading newcomer" or "look at the tried and true section.

Odin wrote:If I am not mistaken, gluten is a proteine, so shouldn't come over while distilling.

Odin.

Kinda true. There are proteins that react with moisture to produce gluten. Wheat doesn't actually contain gluten until those proteins are converted to it.

Just don't fart

I left a corn wash sitting for about a month after it was done fermenting and the final product had a really overwhelming corn flavor, way too much so. I'm guessing if I would have racked it off into a secondary and let it sit in it I would have been fine. Thoughts of a beginner as he tries to learn...

.. But drinking anything much above 110 proof, or 55% ABV, can cause tissue damage from your lips right on through your ... So the 130-135 proof I'm pulling out of my pot shouldn't be drank straight? While I enjoy the smoothness of 100-110, I've grown quite fond of the bit of a bite the 130 has. Is...