Home Distiller

Reviving an old thread:

To Odin, in particular, or anyone else that has insight: When making beer I have to scrub the hop oil reside out of my kettle post boil. Would the herbs not leave behind an oily residue in the boiler as well, thereby giving future runs trace amounts of the herb taste?

I used an inexpensive boiler control module that provides "burst fire" or "time proportional" 0-100% manual control via a 40A zero-cross switching SSR. I prefer burst to phase control, less EMI, and settings are repeatable for recording in the recipe. Was this, by chance, a unit...

Stubborn as I am, now that three wisdom-ed pro's are against my plans I suppose a pot is good advise. I'd already scored a good deal on 57" of 2" pipe so I figured the boka was meant to be... I've got a few days before my electric supplies arrive so I'll sidebar my current plans and resear...

Welcome David. I'm originally from Lindale in East Texas but currently in the North Dallas area. I'm just getting started myself so I doubt I'll be much help but I look forward to seeing what you produce.


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and have frequently read that the boda could be used for gin/whiskey without the column/packing. Do you disagree? While you can eat cereal with a fork and bash a screw in with a hammer they are not the right tool for the job. Same with the boka for whiskey and other flavorful spirits just not the r...

Welcome to HD Myndgame, Sounds as if you have done some homework and have a good plan. I split my column also with ferules and tri-clamps allowing me just to change out my CCVM head and put on my dedicated pot head so my liebig is still in the correct position for collection. Thanks GrassHopper. I'...

What kind of likker do you like? If you mainly like whiskey the boka is not what you want. But if you really like neutral then the boka is one of the tools for that. I like them all too much to sway one way or the other. I figured the boka was the best place to start and have frequently read that t...

The only thing I would see as an issue, are your choice of heating elements. 2X 1,5 KW are 3 KW total...most distillers that run a keg, would go for a 5 or 5,5 KW element (faster heat up). Thanks for pointing that out as it's the last area I haven't researched in great depth yet. In my brew-kettle ...

Hello everyone. As many before me, I've been a long-time reader but have just recently gotten serious about putting action behind my aspirations. I've been a home-brewer for the past 10+ years, slowly moving into an all-grain electric BIAB set-up that works just right. Since I've got that set-up in ...