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I’m a hobby distiller with a thirst for gin. I recently distilled 21 isolates using a 3 gallon still, some in straight potstill mode and others using a Stilldragon gin basket. Most were done by macerating 50 grams of botanicals overnight in 1L of 60% neutral, then diluting down to under 30% before ...

Very welcome, let us know how it goes when you're done cleaning anyhow. The baking soda worked a treat to bring the copper back from that silver shade I was seeing. Did the vinegar run this morning and some new funky colours have appeared in the bottom (well different shades of copper I guess rathe...

Thank you everyone for taking time to help me out - I really appreciate it

Thanks for the further replies. The still is brand new so never been run before. I too was a bit worried by the fact the base looks silvery and wasn’t sure if that was normal! I shall follow the good advice here and have a clean up, then a vinegar wash run, and then a sacrificial run and fingers cro...

Thank you all for your replies. It is much appreciated I haven’t done a vinegar run yet - I stupidly thought I would practice with just deionised water for the first run to get used to controlling the temperature etc. surely I couldn’t mess that up! But it seems I did. I shall certainly do the vineg...

Hi all. Complete newbie here - have been reading the forum for ages now and learning as much as I can. I have a small 2.5 litre copper alembic still Today was finally the day that I was brave enough to switch it on! Got everything set up safely and knew what I was going to do - filled it with 0.5l o...

Hi, long term lurker, first time poster after signing up

Hello from Sussex in the UK. I’ve been a spirits fan for many years and am on the verge of owning my first pot still and keen to get going on this exciting new hobby

Looking forward to getting to know all of you