Home Distiller

I've been a huge fan of his since his first book. I've probably given out a dozen copies of Kitchen Confidential to friends who were thinking about going to culinary school. I'm so fucking bummed by this. He had what most of us would consider a dream job -- be well paid to travel the world and eat a...

Testing. edit: yep, there!

Thanks!

If I may ask, what is "shooting" a thumper?

As a homebrewer, I'm very much used to the idea that the yeast is responsible for a huge amount of the final flavor. The same ingredients/mash bill will produce two wildly different beers if you use a Belgian or Saison yeast versus a California Ale, for instance. From fairly extensive thread reading...

I have now read all 3,774 posts. There should be a forum badge for this. Thanks everyone who has posted in this over the years -- every single question I might have has been answered already. Many, many times. It's going to be another month or two before I get started, but this is for sure the recip...

Obligatory first post ahoy! I've been homebrewing for going on 20 years off and on, and have always wanted to learn how to distill. I finally took the plunge and got a six gallon still with a one gallon thumper. I've been lurking this forum for at least five years off and on. I'm about 2000 posts in...