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For my rice whiskey I use Booners Casual All Corn recipe from the tried and true section of this forum. I just use rice flour instead of corn. Same protocol for everything else. I get 50lb bags of white rice flour through my local restaurant supply store for pretty cheap. About the same price as cor...

I use two 20 gallon brute containers for fermenting with a 100w aquarium heater in each one. My basement is 60-65 Fahrenheit in the winter and I hold the fermenters at around 80. No insulation. Been doing it that way for a few years now. Works great. I loop two bungee cords over the top and hook the...

Orpheus It looks like you have the same still as me. My condenser came with a 7/8" stub out at the top and a I think a 1/2" female NPT at the bottom. For the top I attached a shark bite (push to connect) coupler fitting with a female NPT on the other side. Then to that attached a male NPT ...

nkelble 195F is perfectly normal for spirits to start flowing. You have probably read that ethanol will evaporate around 173F. That's for pure ethanol, which I hope is not what you are trying to distill. Your first run is mostly water, usually around 10% alcohol. A mixture of water and alcohol has a...

Replying to the original post.. I have the still from the first link that you posted. The 10 gallon alembic. I've had it for about 3 years now and run it almost every weekend. Yeah it's expensive compared to homemade but I've always liked the traditional look of them. It reminds me of a mini scotch ...

Hi I've been distilling for about 5 years now. Almost everything I know about distilling was learned from this forum. I decided that it's time to give back and share some of the knowledge that I've gained over the years from my many successes and failures. I'd guess that I've done a few hundred runs...