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Most wineries dump it on their fields. I worked at one winery that had an auger when we emptied the press and guys would line up in their trucks and we'd augur it in their truckbed for free. If your not looking for truckloads it might be worthwhile trying to hook up with someone in the amateur winem...

I lived in Portugal for 3 years, NZ Chris' link is very accurate. One point I would make that I did not see mentioned is that Aquardente in my area was double distilled. The harshness seems to mellow with age Ive had some older stuff that had the flavour with none of the burn. The stills in my area ...

Hey Odin finally made a 4L test batch the other day, had some as it was coming out of the still and was happy. Now a couple of days later I couldnt be happier. Great flavours and theres a lot of beauty in simplicity thanks a bunch.

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Wicked looking Parrot. Can you post the size of the pieces you used? Im looking to build one myself but cant seem to find anywhere that mentions sizes of parts?

I was under the impression that a small percentage of the starch would be converted to fermentable sugar during the fermentation process. This is what I am banking on for the end results. If my results show less than 0.5% ABV difference in the mash's then in my mind it dosent make a difference. But ...

Hey guys things have finally slowed down with school and Im running out of UJSM that I made this time last year. Ive been reading a lot about beano and want to see how effective it is at converting starches to fermentable sugars. Although from what ive read Beano only works to break down complex sug...

Baking the worlds largest cookie.

Hey guys I just checked the no frills flyer and theyve got 4kg bags of sugar for $2. Thats 50 cents a KG. Limit 3/customer. Best deal ive seen on sugar in a long time.

bad news on this site, they both the 3" T fittings they sent me are the wrong ones. Ive got to email them and try and sort it out. Will let you guys know.

I use it as cleaner for my tools, and degreaser for my tools.

Im in the same boat Mikey my runs finish off in the 65-70% ABV range after the 1st run. A second run and your up in the mid 80's which is vodka territory. For rums and whisky's in order to retain flavour I keep it to single runs.

Firefly I run the same still and had the same problem as you, in order to get to the 92%+ ABV range I would have to spend many extra hours running the still. I settled on having a final product in the 87% ABV range, it was the best time/quality trade off for me. I broke my thermometer a long time ag...

homedistiller.org mentions using plastics in the polishing neutral spirits section. "Materials 1 x 500mm long 50mm diameter upvc pipe 1 x 50mm end cap 1 x 50mm threaded adapter 1 x 50mm threaded end cap with O ring 1 x poly pipe barbed adapter (see drawing/see text) 1 x Caulking gun glue tube n...

My mistake Husker, looked to me like it was attached.

I think for most users here you'll find something like that is more of a novelty item. With something like that your probably just going to be looking to make vodka. Cut offs would not be real precise but the first stuff that comes off is not going to be good. You could be real conservative and take...

I really like the idea of this. I have no source for aged white oak (that I know of) and I am only good at building things that only consist of 2x4's, plywood and screws. This might be a good idea to build as a little business. Im looking at buying a barrel right now, here in Canada I can get a new ...

Finally got around to making this, made a raspberry and blueberry. The blueberry really dosent have a whole lot of flavour (used frozen fruit for both) but the raspberry flavour really comes through and its a nice drink. I am looking for a woman with a morally casual attitude to test its panty dropp...

Fermentations that take months are generally due to lack of nutrients/stressed yeast. Like Husker said if you can rack it off the lees into a carboy great. If you want to get fancy and throw some sulfur in there that will help to. Sulfur (also known as SO2, K-Meta, Potassium Metabisulfite, Camden ta...

I have a few liters of neutral spirit that I would like to filter and im ready for my 1st try....I read the Gert Strand book and I just wanna make sure I understood what I read.... I have the kit that came from brewhaus.... 1)boil and clean 4-5 times etc... 2)put the filters at the end and fill tub...

I like to use a yeast inoculum of 0.4g/L. So for 27 litres I would use 11 grams. Or approx 2 packs.

I pretty much drink wine, Im anywhere from 1/2 to 1 bottle a day. Thats 4-9 40% drinks per day. I have a glass with breakfast though so its spread pretty evenly through my 16 hours.

Didnt turn on the cooling water in time so vapour started comming out and because I use propane she caught fire. If I wasnt in the room it would have been a disaster.

I dump it on my compost. If it freshly distilled (still piping hot)you can use it to kill weeds.

It might be able to be done at large scale factories, but Im just an average joe punchclock I wouldnt trust drinking anything I distilled that at one time had 15% gasoline in it.

If your in it for the cheap clean 40% can be made for about $1 a liter.

Havent used one but you dont want a water distiller off the shelf your looking for something like this. Plastic and stills are not usually a good combo.

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Update on my order, they were out of stock on over 1/2 my order so it wont ship until around the 7th of Dec. Its a good thing im in no hurry.

Nice background info UJ in picture number 2 it looks like milk jugs he was storing the hooch in. I had some UJSM in a flask when I was outside pruning grapes (-10C) and gave some to a guy I was working with he was real happy for the snort but he was even more impressed it was homemade "If you d...

Same deal I get 5-6 runs per tank, but always have a backup, ive been looking into an auto switchover unit that they have for RV's but havent found the need for it yet.

Hey guys I found a site http://www.globalindustrial.com/gcs/product/categoryInfo.web?options.parentCategoryKey=4649&index=40&catSearchParams.categoryKey=4650&REQ_SUB_CAT=Fittings+-+Copper" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" rel="nofollow They beat my local...

Going to be 20L buckets over top I am not Hercules, I think its going to have to work, this option is free and customizable size wise. I can play with thickness's over a few runs then get someone to weld the pieces together. Might sound like I got the problem solved but I only realized I had these S...