Home Distiller

I love my Fast Fermenter. Be careful not to scratch the inside as you're working in it. Very easy to harvest an save your yeast. I've got a big ole 20 gallon stainless pot I'm going to use to mash in, so that will take most of the mixing. Is it so soft that I can't use a wooden paddle? Is there a n...

I love my Fast Fermenter. Be careful not to scratch the inside as you're working in it. Very easy to harvest and save your yeast.

Most unfortunate on so many levels.

It's going to be impossible for people to help figure out what's happening without the details of your process. For example, if you put your barley and corn together and boiled it up ... you killed the enzymes. Assuming you had malted barley and not just barley. Since you're a newbie and maybe a vis...

Well, since we're spending your money, why not switch the thumper head to the style where you use a TEE instead of an elbow and feed the line from the boiler through the TEE? It saves a little fabrication and real estate on the thumper head. Then ditch the Liebig altogether, get some plates from Twi...

OK, I don't mind skipping a step of it's not going to help, that's why I'm discussing it with you guys as I go. When I was reading the Liebig threads it seemed like a lot of people included it with a 1/4" water jacket casing. Too late on the spout though, I made it already. :D That's where I s...

The whole thing misses the point in my opinion . If it is OK to produce x amount of wine and beer a year tax free fir personal consumption , why should one then be taxed when that same alcohol is distilled . That I believe is the ridiculous point that a Judge in New Zealand realised. Unless congres...

Well, the government appealed. Don't ya love your government waging war on you with your own money?

https://news.bloomberglaw.com/ip-law/ta ... government

The above lnk now seems to be behind a paywall. Sorry.
Here's the Notice of Appeal:

Or Danielle Nicole ...



Fun fact - the drummer in both of the foregoing videos is a guy named Go-Go Ray.

How about Samantha Fish?

Requiring a license or anything else would do nothing to stop people who want to make and sell bootleg liquor.

I have a thought - boil some water in it first to test out that induction setup. If it gives you fits, you won't have a boiler full of vinegar mix to dump out. It occurs to me that you could get a 5 or 8 gallon stainless boiler and bypass the thumpers for stripping and then reconfigure it to stock f...

I have theoretically considered the heat issue. One reason I went with a heavier copper even though they are so small. I have some Roxul Safe n Sound rockwool insulation. I figured if I had to, I would vacuum seal some of that and then sandwich that between two layers of Reflectix. One reason I did...

On the other hand, maybe TTB is cozying up to congress to "fix" the law. 2 provisions were ruled unconstitutional only because they didn't reference "interstate commerce". From page 28 of the ruling: " These provisions are simply “criminal statute(s) that by [their] terms” h...

So now, as a HDA member, you can apply for a permit from the Federal Government to distill in your home, as opposed to the same permitting process for a shed based distillation plant. You will still need to register your still with a serial number before your permit is approved and agree for agents...

Well, as I'm typing at 06:54AM (Eastern)this page: https://www.pacermonitor.com/public/case/51636539/Hobby_Distillers_Association_et_al_v_Alcohol_and_Tobacco_Tax_and_Trade_Bureau_et_al Says nothing was filed electronically as of 5 hours ago. The Hobby Distillers FB page has nothing indicating they'v...

I'm wondering, Does the days that the government had to file their appeal include weekends or is it business days only? I have been counting all days but I'm not sure if that is correct. I find this: " Rule 6 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure provides the following instructions for compu...

So, if correct, Wednesday July 14th would be the deadline. At midnight for electronic filing. If so we should have seen a response/appeal by now being that its the 24th? Has anyone seen any updates? The 24th isn't over until 11:59PM. Really, that's just when the original STAY ends and the order goe...

There's over 700 thousand replies under sweet feed. I can't figure our how to narrow it down and find a recipe to make sweet feed, rather than a recipe on making moonshine out of sweet feed. How about a link? Here's what it boils down to. "Sweetfeed" is sweet because it's got added molass...

I'm wondering, Does the days that the government had to file their appeal include weekends or is it business days only? I have been counting all days but I'm not sure if that is correct. I find this: " Rule 6 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure provides the following instructions for compu...

Maybe a restaurant supply house? In the US, I'd use a site like webstaurantstore.com, for instance: https://www.webstaurantstore.com/3m-84cc-scotchbrite-175-oz-stainless-steel-scrubber-pack/39984CC.html Which the specsheet tells me is 400 series stainless. A little ways down, on the right side. Elim...

So, a clear answer won't be forthcoming for the next person who blunders into this thread?

At the start of 2012, we spent more than two weeks without power in near record low temperatures. Then a few months later, we spent another couple of weeks without power in near record high temperatures. We made getting a generator a priority and have not regretted the money we spent on it. Yep, no...

The electrical grid really is any modern society's Achilles heel. The status quo would change immediately, in the face of a continent wide loss of power . And yet most people don't think or talk bout it... This is the absolute truth. Turn the power off for 48 hours and people revert to cavemen. Pos...

I sat for 4 days without power after hurricane Charlie. In the Florida heat. Never owned a generator before then and never been without one since.

Although it is clear, I would rather see the limit be gallons of alcohol at X abv. On two hundred gallons of beer that can vary greatly if it is 5% cider you are distilling or a 12% sugar wash for vodka. It would make a more even playing field for those that are chasing quality, thus limiting the w...

There are bipartisan efforts underway. Check out this bill in New Hampshire: https://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/bill_status/billinfo.aspx?id=1803&inflect=2 It's worth looking at the text of this bill (now law). It about 3 paragraphs of plain English, crystal clear. Though there is an odd repetiti...

States could ban distilling as the ruling was not that one has a constitutional right to distill, but that the feds do not have a constitutional basis to regulate the actual distilling. Unless congress puts through a bill with an exemption of X gal per year, you will still be subject to tax fraud f...

State laws would still apply. They can still outlaw home distillation. The beauty of the Constitution is, State Law Makers CANNOT make laws that violate our Constitutional Rights. So no...no State Law outlawing home distilling...and I feel this ruling will survive the two week stay, and free us fro...

State laws would still apply. Sorry, but State Laws don't trump the Fed. We've been through this in Pennsylvania where PA law says Home Distilling is legal, but it didn't matter because the Fed (ATF) trumped our State Law. This is a ruling on the US Constitution, States can not overturn this! State...