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I made a batch of this stuff and its in the fermenter. here is how i made it: 2 lbs bag of malto - meal frosted flakes ran though the blender and turned it into powder. 20 lbs of sugar 4 lemons heated to 150F stirring for 20 min or so added tap water to bring sg to 1.078 I may run it though the stil...

punkin wrote:Dirty feet is an infection.

I had alot of the wheat germ bubble out in the first 3 days so I topped it off with tap water. would that cause an infection?

i made this and the final product came out smelling a bit like dirty feet. a couple things i did differently, i used 24 oz of wheat germ and i put it in a pressure cooker for 2 hours at max heat. i also used lemons instead of citric acid. it did make alot of alcohol though.

I decided against the brass and I built a still using only copper and stainless steel keg. its a 15 gal beer keg with a 2 ft long 2 inch copper column using a tri-clamp connection. I made some birdwatchers and dwwg and everything worked out pretty well. the dwwg had a really strong smell of wheat, a...

im really new and have alot to learn about distilling, but im a bad ass know it all with google.

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thanks for all the replys everyone I didnt expect to get this much attention! I bought a lead testing kit and tested the pipe, I tested it in several places and i couldnt find any trace of lead. the pipe is a heavy 2 inch pipe and looks really nice after i cleaned it up. it would make the still look...

the brass pipe that im using was used by the county for putting in water mains. it fell off someones truck. im pretty sure that its safe. its there an easy way to test it?

I have decided to try distilling because it sounds like alot of fun creating your own hard liquor. I have learned a great deal of information from this forum. At the moment I am building a distiller from parts that i have either found, or purchased for a low price. The parts so far include stainless...