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Looks like you're having fun, fair play for building your own

You can use copper or ss pipe twisted up as a RC if you're not sure about a shotty

Lidl/aldi/Tesco/ASDA all have yeast with the flour.
Makes good whiskey or vodka if you run your still right

To balance the column, runn in full reflux at the max power the column can handle without flooding. If it floods you need to turn down the power, not the RC. Yep on collection speed, 2-2.5 liter per min is good, actually less if you shoot for neutral. Mod edit . I think you mean 2 to 2.5 litres per ...

How do you judge that you have a ton of reflux without the RC on? I'm going to go out on a limb and assume that it's because the plates stay loaded? It's how your comments reads to me if that's wrong I'm sorry the next bit will not apply at all. Full disclosure, I've never ran caps, I have sieve pla...

Saltbush Bill wrote: ↑Fri Apr 05, 2024 1:39 am

Bushman wrote: ↑Thu Apr 04, 2024 10:51 pm it is very strong but not known for good quality.

Swedish Pride wrote: ↑Fri Apr 05, 2024 1:21 am This is correct

Right up your ally then SP?

Cunny funt aren't you.
I'll have you know I only produce the finest beet rum there is

This is correct

Yonder wrote: ↑Mon Apr 01, 2024 9:32 pm While in Austria try Strohs rum (carefully). The unique butterscotch flavor is amazing. Wish I could get it here.

God that brings back memories of drunken nights on my adolescents.
Be careful with that 80 ABV rum, it'll end your night fairly quick

Oooh, malted oats, looking to play with them soon, just want to finish my third go around on the single pot myself. Get a fair whack of keep cuts on each spirit run, about 11l at 80% per spirit run thus far, this will see me in Irish pot whiskey fot the forseeable future. What you aging process. I g...

I'm still at questions 0.5, nevermind anything more advanced

Stripping run on what will be a triple distilled Single Pot Still Irish Whiskey. 60/40 Malted to unmalted barley. How are you running it? Strip- strip -spirit Or strip -slower strip- spirit Making any seperation of fractions on the first two runs? As in high ABV goes towards next run whereas lower ...

95%50ppm peated malt, 5% oats. Strip until 1% off the spout., keep all that faints and do it again But that's just me Thanks Swedish, mmmm, i do like a peaty or smokey malt, i like the Islay malts so your suggestion might be a good option. So you strip twice, yeh, and then a spirit run?? Nah for sc...

95%50ppm peated malt, 5% oats.
Strip until 1% off the spout., keep all that faints and do it again
But that's just me

I got one from here, one of few that have American oak in Europe. https://barricasdemadera.com/ Took 3 months, their communication is shocking but the barrel is nice. I've filled it with bourbon to do what you plan on doing, only difference is I'm doing Irish potstilled rather than scotch Thanks fo...

I got one from here, one of few that have American oak in Europe.
https://barricasdemadera.com/

Took 3 months, their communication is shocking but the barrel is nice.

I've filled it with bourbon to do what you plan on doing, only difference is I'm doing Irish potstilled rather than scotch

Riser? I’ve got a 3 gallon Vexar still with thumper. Right from Amazon. Check it out. Get back with me. Plz I think my answer was quite detailed, how I perceive the stilling process anyways. At some point you'll just have to dig in and do some research and more importantly learn by doing. If runnin...

Yep, they are great, I use them in every mash.
To many times did I get crap conversation without it.

Cost is about 1€ per mash so well worth it in my opinion

If in Europe
https://destylacja.com/enzym-gorzelnicz ... -50ml.html

https://destylacja.com/enzym-gorzelnicz ... -50ml.html

I used an old phone charger and plugged the fan in to that, my fan was 12v and charger was about 5v if memory serves, works good

Wow, that's some deal, delighted for ya!

Thumper looks on the small side for the boiler, maybe you can repousse your keg as the thumper.

Lovely patina on it, don't forget a cleaning run on it, who knows how long it's been sitting

Yeah, that's fair , I'll likely get more passive reflux than most other stills.

I'm to drunk to get I to a more elaborative answer so this is all you get

That's my findings since going back running the potty again. Used to smear like a bastard on my 1 inch potty. Now I run my plater as a potty, no coolant to the reflux coil. It's 3in at it most narrow section, before leibig but after keg. Wider column makes for slower spread allowing the heavier comp...

I have a 3 gallon vexar pot still. Thumper. Condenser. Etc. all from Amazon. Lol This time around I’ve turned my heat down a lil. Taking longer. But flavor is there. Honestly. I just picked up this hobby for 1st time in 20 years. I’m hooked again. I love the science of it all. On the other hand. 5 ...

NormandieStill wrote: ↑Mon Mar 11, 2024 4:35 am Can you detect weevil on the nose, or is it more an aftertaste thing?

As you sip you can hear their death screams as they are scalded by the water, those who were lucky enough to make it through the grinder alive

I took a 3 year hiatus from stilling.
Had a variety of grains sitting in the shed for the duration, opened cracked oats and uncracked wheat and malt, some flaked corn too.

All bags was used up, the only thing that was affected was the weevils

You could turn copper, basically put it in a lathe and shape it.
But it's far harder to learn than basic soldering.
Reckon it would be a fairly rewarding hobby in itself

Ag rice, converted with enzymes is lovely.
Normal plain rice, jasmine carries to much flavour (for me)

Just checking, you did do the clean and sac runs?

If not puke, could be crap that was not cleaned out.

Else I agree with SBB and bilgriss.
Puke and/or turbo will ruin a good run

v 1.6.1 version just uploaded, includes the batch diary, I think it's a good start. did my best to test against all screen sizes https://apps.apple.com/ca/app/distillers-calculator/id1600736639 https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.bigmojo.net.distillers Is this still where to get it? U...

Your original process is what many commercial distilleries does.

Good work on finding a way to make it work for you!

Commercial distilleries all over the world charge their stills with low wines higher than 40%, nothing strange there

The 40% rule is only here on HD