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Probably the copper. And you should not use plastic with your distilate, if you do so, don't give your booze to anyone, nor should you drink it but definitely don't post it in here. It is not a safe material and doing so you are violating forum rules If is the first time you use this still, you shou...

How did you prepare your ferment?
Did you dissolved all the sugar before or there were still some sugar crystals in your wash?
Did you put enough yeast? It was a healthy one?
Anyway, just keep checking sg everyday and distill only when stabilizes (3 days in a row showing the same reading)

I've seen grappa makers putting straw in the bottom to prevent scorching, I don't know how it would impact on flavor but seems it works

Also, if anyone has any advice on what size liebig condenser I will need to make for this 50 litre pot still running 3kw induction hot plate 30mm fittings I would be most thankful. As I would like to order parts within the next day! Might upgrade the induction plate to 5lw for hot Stripping runs. T...

Welcome Lucky! Go check all the main posts about safety and forum rules, it's for the best (ignore if already doing it) I would like to see your still post a photo if possible And I've notice that you put your county and state in your profile, be careful as long home distillation is illegal in your ...

you double your max collection rate (by incresing power) or you halve vapor speed if using the same power, this would make vapor and copper to be in contact for longer periods.

Not sure if this is totally right, I bet someone here can validate it or not

Bienvenido!
happy to see more south americans around!
I've grew on Brazil/Paraguay border (Guaíra/Salto del Guairá) my family has a cachaça craft distillery there

Post some photos of your setup if you can, I would like to see it

I use propane under a 30 gallon boiler. I have a 2” shotgun condenser. I can strip a full boiler in 3 hours, so I think you’re on the right track. Even pretty warm water will still be enough to knock down your vapor… Can you give me a little bit more info? How many tubes? which diameter? how long i...

The problem isn't the amount of water I have available, but the amount I can use... As the worm condenser is basically an open bucket with the coil inside if I raise water flow it just overflow the bucket, the outlet should be bigger for faster water flow to avoid this issue. But solving this wouldn...

The math is so simple I'm feeling dumb for not figuring it out alone, thank you!
Gonna put some thinking on flow rate and sectional area of tubing before order any triclamp

Hi folks I have a 30gal boiler pot still with 6" riser that throttles to a 5/8" worm condenser. It suits me ok for single runs but when I've tried to strip I've figured that it is just making me waste butane. It can produce around 6L/h but the vapor get so fast that my distilate is coming ...

8Ball wrote: ↑Fri Jun 11, 2021 6:39 am Try using 1kg/3.8L total grain/water ratio. Ferment on grain. After squeezing with a paint bag and mop bucket, you wind up with ~93% of your mash to run.

+1

you can do parti gyle
-Brew your whisky beer, transfer to fermenter
-add around the same amount of clear water on the grain and mash it again
depending on og reading you decide if you put on fermenter (diluting it a bit) or if you boil add hops and make a beer

just to reinforce what rull_bull said:
If you live somewhere that's illegal to distill you must take care with smells

Hambone wrote: ↑Sun Jun 06, 2021 9:51 am Looks like a lactic infection. Run it without concern…maybe a little off from neutral but absolutely nothing wrong with it.

+1

Infusionist_br wrote: ↑Fri May 21, 2021 10:58 am

JesseMarques wrote: ↑Wed May 19, 2021 2:27 pm Seja bem-vindo!
Mora em que estado?

Fico entre Santa Catarina e Minas Gerais. Vc é de onde?

Campo Grande, MS.

Seja bem-vindo!
Mora em que estado?

Malted corn can convert itself, but the yield generally is low because lacks in some enzymes, barley is genetically selected to be malted, corn isn't. To improve the yield you can mash your malted corn, transfer liquid to other vessel then boil (with enough water) the remaining solids to gelatinize ...

Same topic (sort of): I read a small bit about creating a yeast starter .... but not much info on this either. In some docs I've read that temp above 80 degrees F will kill the yeast.But, the starter process includes adding yeast to hot water. (?) And, the starter process seems to involve transferr...

if the keg really is 304 stainless, you are fully safe, no thin spot will develop if you are not using HCl or other similar chemical

Just a thought about the process.. The moisture in a damp or recent cut wood allow sugars to be in solution rather in solid form. This way some sugars can caramelize and react with aminoacids, Maillard Reaction. Also, the presence of water will result in longer time to reach burning temps, resulting...

+1 on collection jar.
collect and put on feints jar so you can use it later

Here was my thought on the matter, please, weigh in where any of you find pitfalls. I'm actually going to do a write-up in a fresh post about this in more detail. I want a 26 gallon boiler, 4" or 6" column, with grain port and agitator. I'll purchase from MileHi and grab an agitator. I wo...

How much booze do you need to make? I haven't distilled anything for 2 seasons (I usually just distill in the fall when apples are in season). the last 2 years have been poor apple years and I simply have way too much on hand anyway even with giving a fair bit away. I plan on starting to make some ...

you can rack or pump it to the boiler, that's how most people do it, you can even transfer it with a jug.
5gal buckets are cheap and you can have more ferments going simultaneously

dumb idea yeast taste is not good when distilled IMO and you can try yourself, the boiler size has no play in this, just throw everything inside after fermentation So you think even with double distillation I'll suffer offset flavors from yeast? honestly i don't know because I've never tried. But i...

dumb idea
yeast taste is not good when distilled IMO
and you can try yourself, the boiler size has no play in this, just throw everything inside after fermentation

1 cm³ = 1 mL = 0,001 L

Yummy, this is basically the functioning of a distillation process. Lighter molecules can rise faster with less energy and to gain height it needs to give energy away. Bigger (or highly bonded such as water) molecules needs more energy to overpower gravity and to break intermolecular bonds/interacti...

Have a nice distilling day! For your next runs you can strip a bigger volume Instead of having a 40% low wines and put water to decrease abv, strip to around 30%~25% low wines. You'll get a bit extra alcohol, and lots of flavor. Water retains flavor in it, so you should add plain water just if disti...