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..., alot of people are allergic to things like glycerin..... I could not find any literature in a cursory search about allergic reactions to glycerol. There is an excedingly rare condition that causes glycerol intolerance, but that is a real fringe case. Given how much glycerol is used in food and...

But I haven't done any more rum since my big 100l batch. The smell was just to much to handle. I do however have that huge carboy half full of cask strenght rum in the waiting. That's around 20l of 60% that will probably last the rest of my life. If it does continue to develop though, maybe I will r...

Rum, rum, rum ... rum is weird And age is just so much more important thant I ever imagined it was. My big batch of rum has now matured for two years, and when I visit it every two-three months I can taste and smell the development going on on in there. Every time i take a sample there has been more...

Actually, it turned out the best stuff I ever made. A smooth round and really tasty schnapps, still retaining that caraway freshness and sharpness, but in moderation - complemented by roasted oak with vanilla and coffee-tones. One year in the trunk did absolute wonders. I have two liters of the stuf...

According to US regulations, and health inspectors it is. If you trust them, and their rules. This kind of tube for free is not something that should be scoffed at. Especially if you have a specific use in mind. Even just for emptying boilers, free it hard to beat. And if you even can get tri clamp ...

I'm aging in big glass balloons (30L) - and I stopper them with a piece of cloth, allowing quite a bit of air contact.
Wether that is good or bad I don't know. I'll find out in another year or so when the first rum is ready.

It's now been a year since I made my Shochu, and it's been sitting on the shelf maturing in bottles. Now I opened a couple of bottles for the first time in a year and shared it with some japanese friends, and my pretty decent Shochu from last year had matured in to rather damn good Shochu this year....

I didn't have any buttons laying around. But I'm making a modification to this project where there are two buttons making it possible to change the dosis.
It is however allready connected to the iot and possible to remote control the contraption.

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I'll put some buttons on there to adjust dosage. Then we have perfection. Maybe even try to 3d print a casing so the contraption fits snugly on a bottle of my hand sanitizer/limoncello. I may possibly have halfway fried the esp8266 by putting 5v on one of the digital pins. Forgot to step down logic ...

I made this hand sanitizer dispenser today. It has double action pump. 0.97" oled screen. Internet connectivity. An ultrasonic sensor to feel the presence of hands, and a relay to turn the pump on and off. A masterpiece of engineering. There may be some details left for the design department. h...

Oh, I've got uhf/vhf equipment enough for local chatter. Gotta give it to the chinese, they churn out an awful lot of passable quality but very cheap gear. Got myself a QYT KT-7900D and a Baojie bj-9900 together with a bunch of UV5R's and they're simpel but functional little radios. But a proper HAM...

I got my license last week. All green and wet behind the ears in ham world. And I am really starting to see what an expensive hobby this radio thing can be. Gawking at the used gear websites and trying to find anything I can afford.

Except that the WHO recommendation specifically states that H2O2 is not an active ingredient in the sanitizer.

Messing about with Hydrogen Peroxide is really not needed for hand sanitizer. The H2O2 is added to kill off spores that may be in the finished product, but does nothing for killing bacteria or viruses. The reason for killing spores in the WHO recommendation is because spirits is to be used for surge...

IKEA flip top bottles "korken" with a piece of plumbers PTFE tape for extra sealing and protecting the lid rubber from alcohol vapors works great. The contact area between bottle seal and vapours are minimal to begin with and easily isolated from the bottle contents with a 1 inch piece of ...

Isn't that kind of a lot of sugar in a 150L wash.....maybe I got it wrong but by my calcs should produce a wash about 22-23% .....EC1118 is good shit witha high abv tolerance but I reckon even it might struggle under a work load like that . As with most things time will tell I spoze, ..be intereste...

I just set up a 150L with 60kg sugar ferment. Since this is meant for sanitizer I gave it a handful of DAP and a bunch of other nutrients plus 300g of CC. After 24 hours this brute is fermenting like there is no tomorrow. Lalvin 1118 is fermenting faster than any turbo I've seen. Might not be top qu...

This has probably been posted before but... Here is a WHO official procedure for making hand sanitizer when industrial products is not available: https://www.who.int/gpsc/5may/Guide_to_Local_Production.pdf H2O2 is not an active ingredient of the sanitizer, that is just the ethanol. Quote: "Hydr...

Build a couple of these (more copper) and recirc the water into a double boiler or big pot your still sits in. I'd insulate the back and sides if it were me. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btQtPQpUf90 You don't need that much spacing between coils so could get about twice as much copper in the sam...

I imagine the main problem with solar stills is to get enough of a temperature difference between the evaporator and the condenser. This isn't that much of an issue when you're distilling just water, you do not care about fractions and partial pressure when you distill water. Any condensate is then ...

Greetings from way up north. SA or Aus ? Anyway, vikings hail you brave adventurer.

Welcome. When you have participated with a few posts you will be allowed to post pics. I'm looking forward to hearing from your exploits.

Actually it is good to see that others have the same experience as I have had with sugar washes. I experienced the exact same thing as H Popstar. After about 24 hours, the pH crashed and killed the yeast. But after I started dumping a cup or so of powdered calcium carbonate into the wash at mixing t...

And here is my Still on top of the burner Make a short "skirt" for your boiler/pot. A 10cm piece of cast iron or copper pipe with a diameter a little less than the diameter of your boiler to act as a foot/skirt/stand for your boiler will force the heat from your burner to come into contac...

Perhaps i should have been a bit clearer, my mistake, but its not a wash im running, its store bought wine to make brandy. i bought 20Ltrs of 10.5% white wine and used around 30 Litres of 14% red wine thats sat in my cellar for over 3 years that im not partial to. Then i had about 3 Litres of 60% A...

So basically with this burner, i should give up on the idea of doing a strip run...... and then going pretty much like the clappers is sufficient to do a normal run :lol: so technically the 3 stripping runs i did was 3 normal runs im guessing? I say this cause at most i had a little stream, then so...

It'll probably not make Pixieoverlord less confused by introducing BTU as a unit of measure at this point. BTU is a clunky old measure for thermal energy. Pixieoverlord is from Portugal, so I guess talking in kWh or MJ of energy and kg of propane will make more sense. 1kg Propane ~= 46450 BTU = 49 M...