Home Distiller

IMO and experience the higher the silver content the easier it is to use......2% is about as low as you can go.....2% will be cheap though. I wondered about that, I had hell with 5% silver solder but I think it was because it was 3mm, I now use the 2mm 2% silver solder like so https://www.bunnings....

Toto, Go for a 2% silver solder rod if you are going to solder copper to stainless steel. The soft lead free solder will simply pull away from the ferrule when it cools. Whilst I have seen some say they have been able to use the soft solder effectively, I am 51% certain that all it is doing is filli...

jonnys_spirit wrote: ↑Thu Apr 20, 2023 4:25 am I apologize for my inappropriate comment and no excuse but was deep into the cups

Cheers,
J

You'll know when you've gone too far, they will tell you.

This isn't the Florida chapter of the Home Distiller

subbrew wrote: ↑Tue Feb 14, 2023 11:51 am Aaaaannnd apparently I am still banded from twitter and can't see Contra's post

what did you do.......?

Archee72 wrote: ↑Sun Mar 26, 2023 1:35 pm

Archee72 wrote: ↑Sun Mar 26, 2023 1:35 pm They look like what we call “scones “?

After close up look, maybe not?

No, they look like my scones, a bit flatter than the ones the CWA make!

subbrew wrote: ↑Wed Mar 22, 2023 8:14 pmfriends.jpg

At least you're allowed to own a gun!

Saltbush Bill wrote: ↑Thu Mar 23, 2023 3:53 am ......if you don't like the result then you can always go the more complicated, harder and more expensive route later.

Now you tell me!

Just finished my Shotgun, will post photos when I clean it up

I'd rather have a bottle in front of me
than a frontal lobotomy


(Spike Milligan I think)

The challenge will be the “harvesting” of the yeast. It’s hard to collect the top (light & fluffy) and omit the lower layer(s) which is settled proteins and yeast hulls........ I use a small siphon made from air tubing for fish tanks, clear pvc, less than 1cm, cut an angle on the end so you can...

From the Book of Ferments

And the Lord sayeth: "Though shalt not ferment without yeast."

Wow, you guys are quick, I've got yeast at home, I was just gonna try it without it, it's been less than 24 hours so I'll add yeast when I get home. What's the least amount of yeast I can add to a 5 gallon bucket and still get conversion? A long, long time ago, during the great lockdown in 2020/202...

Yummyrum wrote: ↑Mon Mar 20, 2023 8:46 pm

CoogeeBoy wrote: ↑Mon Mar 20, 2023 7:11 pm

lest1 wrote: ↑Mon Mar 20, 2023 4:04 am

CoogeeBoy wrote: ↑Sat Mar 18, 2023 1:41 pm

An electrician in Queensland, you'd be the smartest bloke in the state I'm guessing.

haha not even regular qld, hillbilly nth qld

i take it your a southerner

I am indeed!

Deed ….. ? Is that somewhere near Sydney ?

lest1 wrote: ↑Mon Mar 20, 2023 4:04 am

CoogeeBoy wrote: ↑Sat Mar 18, 2023 1:41 pm

lest1 wrote: ↑Thu Mar 16, 2023 6:03 am

elbono wrote: ↑Thu Mar 16, 2023 5:43 am

An electrician in Queensland, you'd be the smartest bloke in the state I'm guessing.

haha not even regular qld, hillbilly nth qld

i take it your a southerner

I am indeed!

Love a good dad joke..... if only my kids knew.

It might help if they knew who I was in the first instance.

i cant see the first pic but the door is kinda a must to be "Grounded" Like most things code related if it is required depends. In the US the door is required to be grounded if it is on lift off hinges. In Canada it is always required. I have no idea about the rest of the world. If it is ...

In Australia and many other outside the USA countries, maths works in a logical way on the calendar. Day/ month/ year. So my birthday, today, the fifteenth of March (until midnight) reads 15. 3. 2023. No Pi day here. Geoff Geoff, There are 3 types of people in the world, those that are good at math...

Shady if you’re going to supplying the rare and endangered trees for the saw dust I’m here to help as well. Been thinking that I could supply the startup distillery with polar ice cap water I melted myself. Yeah, we’ll ship up a bunch of industrial gas powered heaters and turn them on toward the sn...

Welcome. You will meet a lot of friends here, not all of them your own!

(I use that one all the time by the way)

Thank you all for the valuable information! I went ahead and ordered one and I'll let you know how it works. I hope it handles the 11,000 watts, got me wondering if I should step in down a bit, I'm only working with a 26G aquarium . Aquarium? What will you be using this controller for exactly? Just...

And yes, that is our comfortable little suburb, it has changed a lot in the last 10 years and even more so in the last 20.

Thank you thank you and i do like yours but I made an error.
I used words not syllables so here we go, take 2

I do love my still
But when I wake in morning
Night before regrets

Dang and curses!

My first ever Haiku, and its all because of you mpf

I do love my still
But when I wake in the morning
I regret the night before

Salt Must Flow wrote: ↑Sun Feb 19, 2023 9:57 pm Are there stainless steel beer kegs in Iran?

I thought even beer and wine was illegal in Iran or am I just plan ingorant.

SGB wrote: ↑Mon Feb 27, 2023 1:03 am I've been taking the leftovers, giving it a good rinse a few times, then dry it in the sun and feed it to the pigs. Not sure if I need to go through all that trouble, I was just worried it might make them sick if I didn't rinse it clean/er

or drunk.....

pickled pork maybe?

JHeron wrote: ↑Thu Feb 09, 2023 3:32 pm Jon
PS I dont know why the pics are sideways...

Because you take your photos when you are drunk and lying down maybe?????

Hey, this should be fun! 160 used bourbon barrel heads arrived a few days ago. ........ I'll try to make a video dealing with the different challenges of using this wood source in the coming weeks. IMG_0904.jpeg I would think one of the first challenges would be finding bain-marie big enough to fit...

Hi mate, I am overseas at the moment so I don't have my notes handy but I didn't put a lot of lime peel in, it is powerful stuff, I think I put the skins of one lime and about 4 (maybe 6) cardamon pods which I pounded with a mortar and pestle to release the seeds. Keep the amount of cardamon in line...

Deplorable wrote: ↑Fri Dec 30, 2022 12:23 pm Here's how it looks with spirit in it.
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That has set the bar at new heights, possibly unachievable by us mere mortals!

Deplorable wrote: ↑Fri Dec 30, 2022 6:40 pm Barrel owners, if you have barrel numbers 941 and 942, please PM me.
It's a shot in the dark but if you're on here...

Barrel lotto? Is there a prize?

You are not the first person to mention the smell of the yeast, it has been described as a range of things including baby vomit (that is what my kids tell me when I have a batch on) but this often only lasts a day or so.

Results have been good though