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I have used DME in some grain bills over 20 years with zero issues. DME or LME uses higher temps and i prepare it in my large brew pot and then put that into the fermenter with the grain and sugar . Ive never done a pure ME wash due to the cost but im sure it can be done. Im not a scientist and i ju...

Shame you didnt visit ol smokey in gatlinburg. I can honestly say that the one time i visited it i tried some of the absolute worse likker ive ever had. When asked "what do you think about our corn whiskey?" I told them they were in serious need of someone to show them how to make whiskey ...

Long family history on moonshing going all the way back to my scotts ancestors. I remember listening to stories about revenue agents, stills and some of the "problems" that came with it when i was little. My grandpa was the last to run any as his three sons never did. (Until me). I even we...

Did you have temp variations during the ferment?

Building seems to be universally constant.

This has probably been discussed somewhere in this forum but i wanted to share this to any newbies or someone interested in fabricating a stainless pot. About 35 years ago when i started on my journey as a moonshiner i bought a nice 5x10 foot sheet of stainless at a scrap dealer to build a pot. And ...

I use thermometers throughout the system. Not so much because they're needed but i have a 30 gallon pot and i got a great deal on em. And they look cool lol. The only advantage is that at a glance i can see what the temp is throughout the system so if im getting too hot i immediately know. To be hon...

The smell can get pretty loud when running sour mash but unless someone knows what it smells like they'll just wonder what it is. Just hope they arent overly curious or nosey. Gaztops is correct about backset, it gets FUNKY. If you have good ventilation you can greatly reduce smells by not allowing ...

You'll get more efficient cooling by plumbing the chill water into the bottom and letting it out through an overflow in the top. Or you can do what i finally did and go with a shoygun condenser and forget the worm.

A humerous post and i enjoyed it lol. I once told a cashier at sams club i was buying 200 pounds of suger because the ladies at the church were making apple butter to raise funds. See you in hell i suppose

A pot still is the best way to get started. I ran a simple pot still for a good while and made some good whiskey with it. I eventually got tired of redistillation and added a thumper but i learned a lot before i did. The point to my blather is that distillation can become pretty complex so dont rush...

Ive always used harris flux and staybrite 8 solder using mapp gas with zero problems. Never tried normal plumbing flux or solder so no idea how that would work. Warm the thicker stainless a bit and then indirect heat on the copper and it will take the solder like a champ . Makes a nice looking joint...

I had problems with the tubes in my gatlin. I used stay brite 8 on the end plates and it propmtly melted when i soldered the reducers on the ends. I went back, removed all the soft solder and used stay silv on the plates so when i soldered on the reducers with the staybrite they didnt go to s@#$ on ...

Im like wisiki, ive had much better luck with bread yeast in all my grain mashes. Its cheap and It has produced consistant flavor profiles batch after batch, year after year so i use it exclusively in all my grain bills. Not sayin specialty yeasts arent as good or anything like that as im far from a...

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Appalachian spirits wrote:Just curious but how much have you invested? Roughly. Thats a beautiful apparatus youve built there, very impressive.

I aint a bootlegger, i just make shine

Just curious but how much have you invested? Roughly. Thats a beautiful apparatus youve built there, very impressive.

Anneal the copper tubing, crimp one end flat, fill will salt making sure its completelt ful. Tap or vibrate the tubing to settle it tight. Crimp other end when full and wind around a piece of pipe or other uniformly round object.

Hello everyone i just wanted to introduce myself and get started absorbing the information. I come from a tradition of moonshining and have kept the family heritage alive for the past 30 years. My ancestors came to appalachia from scotland and they brought distillation with them. When you read stor...

I agree everyones taste is different but its the only store bought that even resembles real moonshine. Ive tried them all and they are horrible. Platte is a little heavy on tails but it tastes more like the corn whiskey i grew up on so thats why i say its the best. Im not a fan of tails and i dont e...

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Wow......NICE job. That thing is beautiful

Shiners sure are a creative bunch! I love the chopper!

I scored some reinforced vinyl tubing on ebay for cheap. I would def use some type of vinyl or rubber hose with plastic barb tees and connectors along with a 1/4 turn ball valve to use as a regulator If ur wanting to save some jingle. If your using water hose an old section of 1/2" clamped to a...

Honestly if you taper down into the thumper your velocity will be fine and you wont need to worry about adding bubbles in the bottom. The less restriction the better as you wont have to run the boiler so hard. A lot of pot stills have the same size piping all the way into the thumper so you should b...

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Ill be damned....i wish i had known this 20 years ago. This is one of those moments i wish i paid more attention to the science of this craft instead of using trial and error but thats why i joined this site. To learn. I will use this the next time i mash in a sweet run for damn sure. Thanks for the...

Its the best legal shine out there. In my humble opinion anyway. Its the only legal shine i buy ( i rarely buy what i can make better) BUT i do like this likker. Hell i can drink it AND enjoy it.

It sounds like youve got a thumper to me. A gallon of wash or heads, tails etc in the thumper gives you 10% of pot volume. Ive used that ratio for decades and its always worked for me but i could be completely wrong too. I go by what works and try to apply the science to it at that point and it work...

I used a 1/2" coil for a very long time on a 20 gallon pot. You will get flooding and surging but it easily knocks down the vapor. I was going to wind a 3/4 " coil to combat the flooding but decided to build a shotgun instead. If i ever use a flake stand/coil again it will be 3/4", 1/...