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Man, Those are pricey. I bet I don't have that in my entire rig. But thanks for the reference!

Just a curious question...

Did you pull off the fore shots? Is the stuff you put in the barrel the stuff that first came off your still?

I looked around the net to try and find a way to make the ladies like the shine a little more. After reading a few recipes I devolved a few of my own. Sweet Cherry Pie 64 oz of Black Cherry Juice 1 Cup of sugar 2 cans of Tart Cherries 1.5 pint (3 Cups) of high proof shine or ever clear. I used 170 P...

I took some distilled water to jar #4. Both measured 68F. I added Alcohol to water on one jar and water to alcohol on the other. Both of them clouded up. I am guessing I smeared the entire run. I stuck the two jars in the freezer to see if they would clear but I doubt they will. Are they still drink...

I'm going to Change out the take off but I still may run it long and high... I threw the plastic out.. the only plastic is the cooling lines now....

Anything rad can call me, I can deal with. I'll dump the cloud shine into the next run. I'm thinking of building a parrokeet . The mini version for my take off, I think I can get the stuff from work.

I'm learning, as long as I can correct my mistakes, I can make forward progress.

You didn't say what ABV your collection is? 1 - 175 2:20 PM 181F 2 - 170 3:18 PM 181.5F 3 - 170 4:22 PM 181.8F 4 - 165 5:17 PM 183F 5 - 160 6: 12 PM 184F 6 - 160 7: 09 PM 185F 7 - 155 8: 15 PM 187F 8 - 140 9:20 PM 189F 9 - 130 10:40 PM 194F - It really slowed down at this point, the taste was off so...

Thanks for the reply! I'll give it a shot! or two

I used taste and ABV to determine whats what.

My Cloudy Jar Vs An Un-diluted Jar




Look at the valves on the short column. The one that returns the condensed product to the main column is closed.

Ok, I have done some searching and reading and I have some questions. I made a run with my updated still. I converted to electric and man, what a difference. I made a sac run first,<Converted to electric>, then a cleaning run, then another sac run, then I did this run. I have a column reflux still t...

Oh, I did that too. 4 gallon wash of sugar, water, and turbo yeast.. It tasted horrid. I dumped it back in to my big wash run. Came out great.

I"m staying with EC-1118 from here on out too. Seems to do the trick with out the smell or the taste. I was a little cautious about sipping some tomato paste wash but It wasn't that bad. I can't tell the colors apart from the strips.. I gave up on them. I'm thinking of distilling Sunday Afterno...

I bought this. I calibrated with Ph 4 and Ph 6.4. I test my wash, rinse with tap water, dry with paper towel and recap.

I screwed up. I grabbed the s-04 out of the fridge when i was supposed to grab the EC-1118. Both blue.. just different shades..

I'm going to start with some egg shells. I have those. I'll crush them up and throw them in there with some baker's yeast. See what happens!!

Thanks guys & gals.

Yes, S-04. I bought that for cider.

I updated with the requested information.

Hey all, I started two 5 gallon batches of a sugar wash. Yeast is S4 - I grabbed the wrong packets out of the fridge. Room temp is 67 F 8lbs sugar juice from half of lemon pinch of epson salt and 1 6 oz can of tomato paste with no preservatives. Batch 1 Started at 1.080 Batch 2 Started at 1.078 Curr...

Hes still around with about a couple hundred new users. So how about giving us an update brother?

Today is day three and its starting to show carbonation already. I'll check it tomorrow.

Well Its all bottled up. I took a glass off the bottom of the bucket when I was done filling bottles. I was left wanting another glass. I primed with 3.7oz of priming sugar, i took the number off a calculator i found on the net. I ended up with about 30 22oz bottles. I'm letting it carb up now. I ho...

Welcome Duck. Good to see another Mitten Man!!

I checked my SG last night and its at .980. Its time to bottle. If I add 4 tubes of apple juice concentrate to back sweeten, do I still add priming sugar?

I am running 110, I am running two elements. I meant what I wrote.

You are correct about them being 5500 Watt though.

This is my Controller. I used an old computer power supply. I took a computer heat sink that had an 80mm fan on it and screwed it into the spot where the power supply fan went. I used These Controllers http://www.ebay.com/itm/140553985193 . it was 31.25 for two shipped to my door. It took about 13 d...

This is my first batch of Hard Apple Cider and I started off with the following ingredients. 5 Gallons of Mott's 100% Apple Juice (Pasteurized) 4lbs of brown sugar 1 Package of Red Star Active Dry Yeast 12\16\13 I sanitized everything with a one step solution. I dissolved the sugar in about a gallon...

Hey everyone, Just stopping in to introduce myself....

I'm Joe, I have been brewing\distilling for about a year and figured it was time to quit lurking.

So Hey, Hi, and Whats up. Thanks for all the info!

Has anyone tried using a Cast 316 Stainless weld spud?