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Ketchup was covered in an earlier post but how about tomato soup? Would that be an acceptable substitute for the tomato paste? Ingredients: Tomato puree (water and tomato paste) High fructose corn syrup (more sugar) Wheat flour salt spice extract (not sure what this could be) vitamin C citric acid F...

I hope this hasn't been covered in to much detail before. I searched for clean +still +how and it returned ...to many common words. :( I was wondering what the best method to clean a still was. I read the parent site and cleaned the boiler with a lye solution, then rinsed, then used my carboy brush ...

Thanks everyone for the replies, I'll not attempt it. Being a novice, all that trouble would be better spent on running sugar washes and similar easy stuff before I attempt that feat.

Hello to all, I have an opportunity to obtain 2 cases of at to out of date beer for $10. I'm wondering if it would be worth it to distill. It's Busch beer, which I don't drink so would be of no use to me as is. I have a quarter keg as a boiler and my gut feeling is that I'd have to run only a case a...

Cool, now I feel a little better. Now that I have most of the bugs worked out and starting to know the still I'll have a bit more patience running washes. I do have two 48 hour turbo packets that I'll need to use up, so from reading the turbo wash thread, I'll just split the packets and go easy on t...

I'm hoping a mentor can help with my descriptions of the first "keeper" product I obtained. In previous threads you might remember my questions about my still. Anyway, being kinda disappointed at the first "keeper" product that I obtained I now am not so sure its "garbage&qu...

Then again, the obvious...use your "water purifier" to do just that.

After all, that's what we're all building right?

Next run I'll try to run it hard in strip mode to see how well it takes it. I've revamped my coolant pump to a 600 gph bildge pump that I can run off my Astron variable power supply to adjust the flow rate. The product that I recently collected seems to have the wet cardboard smell but I haven't run...

First, Thanks MuleKicker, your advice was spot on. I removed the reflux tube, patched the hole and moved it to the top of the still. I couldn't find copper scrubbers so I just removed and packed the SS ones under the reflux tube. I also put one scrubber in the condenser coil. What a difference those...

... your condenser is on the small side... Yep, never heard that one before. :roll: :lol: Coolant flow through the condenser is pretty minimal so I guess the coolant temp will come up if I can increase reflux and quantity of vapor actually getting to it. I'll try changing out the SS with copper, th...

I posted in the "My first..." thread about...well...my first, and here are the specs for the Bob Lennon style that I made: boiler - SS ¼ keg column - 1½"×40" copper, hand made delrin bushing to fit the keg flange. packing - 11 stainless "Choir Boy" scrubbers (I also hav...

Hello to all! A newcomer here, although I've been making my own wine from kits and grape juice for about 3 years (next year should be the first year I can harvest my grapes). I recently completed a Bob Lennon style valved reflux still and have successfully retrieved about 2L of 86% (+ some tails) fr...