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Ferment in your greenhouse/glasshouse/grow room. Plants love CO2.

Is "Honk honk" too political? I attended our local today. Kia kaha (stand strong) and aroha (love) to everyone willing to stand for what they believe in. Chur Canada. Amazing that you can discuss an ILLEGAL (to you guys) hobby...but not what affects the rights or freedoms that should be in...

Might have built some of your houses back 2006 ish...Or I could be off the radar and have the name confused with someone else entirely.

I'll have a shuffle through my old site plans anyhow.

owzit.

Daulton. I know that name from somewhere...Engineer?
Anyway, kiaora from the top.
Hope you're surviving the red-queen's madness alright.

Welcome along eh.

And Honk Honk! Beaming you freedom vibes from way down south.

Rather than pressure I would do it with vacuum. If it does go to sh*t, it will implode rather than explode. But probably the likes of a computer fan on the output side, or a water/fluid syphon to create the vacuum. So no major forces involved. Wood will gassify at a certain point, and you'll want to...

You don’t jump on a 1300cc crotch rocket as soon as you pass your bike licence… Wuss. Also, what's a "license"? :lol: Should be pretty clear from above what the consensus here is...turbo good for glass cleaner or fire starters. That's about it. But hey, have at it. Many people here will h...

Nzgeordie wrote: ↑Sun Jan 30, 2022 6:07 pm
Why throw out stuff you've already paid for?
Not expecting high end quality from the very first try. All about the learning curve!!

Because the "turbo" ingredients/yeast is almost sure to make bottom-end quality, whether first or hundredth try.

Others may have more experience (I'm a born and raised hick) but I'd suspect the townie water...flourine or chlorine or something else.

I wouldn't make a habit of it, but drinking >60% abv is not something I'd call "unsafe"

..."unadvisable", "unwise", and "unappealing"...but not unsafe, beyond the usual caveats with alcohol injestion.

Kiaora from the top.
You'll need to start with a good mash, man.

Twisted Brick wrote: ↑Mon Jul 29, 2019 4:03 pm Too much (apprx 500ml per session) completely reverses its aphrodisiac powers, which can only be treated with prescription medication (Mycoxaphalin). If medication isn't available, a good 12hr sleep works the same, only a lot slower.

Ingest with care!

Another alternative is Dixadrupin

For added humour, find some methylene blue (pharmacy) and add that. ...shall we say, it carries the blue colour all the way through! Haven't done the flowers but did turn some water pink when drawing ghost chillies smoke/vapour through a water-bong arrangement. Can't imagine it would be too pleasant...

Saltbush Bill wrote: ↑Sun Jan 16, 2022 2:03 pmI'm going to assume that you are talking Proof and not ABV

Find me a still that cranks out 178 abv!!

Also he did say proof, right there after the 120.

What is the pH? Commercially, essence is created using muck and vinegar from the trash pit. OK, so there was no actual sugar/conversion, gravity reads same as stillage. Must have been the moulds giving off sweet smell. (Aerobic moulds, though?) Should maybe also have mentioned I roll my own yoghurt...

My feints get re-run, generally down to a neutral, or a good base for gin.

On feints runs, I tend to throw out more heads, and don't go deep into tails (finish at 40% abv or "no longer flammable")
But there will still be some heads and tails, that get re-feinted.

tena koe

So I chucked a few generations of dunder into an open bucket, probably been there a few months now, It grew all kinds of lovely mould flotilla, but the thing is... it started smelling sweet again! As I type, I'm boiling it (I should have got an hydrometer reading first) And it'll be going in a ferme...

You can buy grain mill attachments for your k-beater. Bolt on to the lowspeed port at front. They're about $150 here so probably only $50 in the real world...

Where's the Symbian60 and BBOS10 ports ?? lol.

Is thumper-puking a thing?

We have "kumara" here which are a native "sweet potato" (though not of the solanum species) By themselves they'll ferment out to a 3-4% beer. I did a "sunday roast" whiskey with corn and kumara and it ended up about 14% wash, where my calcs were only destined to yield 4...

this is one of several posts on HD that state for a vinegar cleaning run use 50% vinegar and 50% water. this is misleading as store bought vinegar is already 5% vinegar and 95% water. so the correct ratio for a cleaning run Well... yeah nah. Acetic acid is a constituent component of vinegar. I thin...

kiaora

Cool mate, that's what this hobby is about, learning, experimenting. Welcome along.

kiaora from the top. 10.7 @40 from 20lt would have your wash at~21% which (is entirely doable from turbo but) will leave you will all kinds of off-flavour. I think the general consensus here is 16% tops, and most "tried and true" are 4-8% in the wash. Smashing for high ABV is false economy...

tena koe from up north.
Running a pot still for gin?