Home Distiller

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Well it may cost a faction more as the compressor may have to run a little bit extra to bring the temp of the freezer back down when I first put bottles in. Water gives off a significant amount of heat when it freezes, much more than when it is cooled a few degrees But then again once the bottles a...

put a few frozen drink bottles in the bucket and you can run the same water around and around and around. Not a drop is wasted. Although you may not waste any water with that method, how much electricy are you wasting freezing water? I guess if I was paying for water and not electricy, I would use ...

I usually adjust the cooling water flow until it hurts to touch the used cooling water.

Well, I'll bite, what was the advice to increase the ABV of the wash?

My guess was that the thermometer was reading low.

I believe the congress man who last submitted a bill to legalize home distilling was a democrat named Bart from Michigan.

I distilled box wine for my first few distilling attempts. Its good practice, but the product most likely won't be that good since its your first attempt

Aren't all fuels "energy carriers"???? Gasoline is just an energy carrier of the sun's radiation from a few hundred million years ago. One more thing, everything is toxic in a high enough dose while nothing is harmful in a small enough dose. The buckey balls are somewhat toxic according to...

Hmm...if you are going for something that complex, why not go all the way and get a gas chromatograph mass spectrometer.

Never mind about the firefox problem. Turns out my ad block was blocking out the pages.

Was some browser setting for the WIKI page recently changed? I've tried using firefox(on two different computers) to view the page and in both cases, clicking on links no longer brings up a new page. In internet explorer the page still loads fine.

Hmm...I had been figuring the chemist worked for BASF... guess I was wrong.

My system of storage is a few cardboard boxes filled with bottles sitting in a closet.

If I ever got into barrel making, I would probably store stuff in an attic, or some uninsulated place. The expansion and contraction of the liquid due to temperature changes is part of the aging process.

If you want to combine stills, still, distillation unit, etc, just write

[[still]]s
[[still]]
di[[still]]ation unit

or if you want to get fancy

[[jumbawamba|still]] will link to still

If you want tequila and grappa, a pot still is the way to go.

Well, there's really no one place that's best to start learning how to make spirits. If you want to learn how to make a wash, a beer making group in your area can show you how to ferment like a pro. If you want to distill first, you can skip the whole fermentation process for a while by distilling s...

http://homedistiller.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=46 Here's a link to topic about using plastic. In the end, the pro-plastic & anti-plastic pretty much gave up trying to convince the other side that plastic was safe/dangerous. All in all, there was far less name calling in that thread then was to ...

I've been wanting to make my boiler completely copper for a long time. In its current state, the top part is copper, while the bottom part is stainless steel. See the picture. http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2004-12/907608/total_new.jpg There are three reasons I want the whole thing to be copper. Fir...

Be careful with feed molasses. Some of it contains preservatives that are harmful to yeast, and there are no FDA requirements to list the chemicals in feed molasses. I'm not saying it would be harmful for you to eat it, but it may be harmful to our favorite fungus, yeast.

I went to the angostura bitters website and noticed the registered tradmark symbol after the word angostura. I wonder if they would be able to trademark that word if their product contained angostura bark? It would be like trade marking the word apple in apple juice.

Sodium Benzoate is a common preservative that yeast don't like.

Whisky is often aged in oak cask, so oak chips(charred or not) are a good thing to add. For many scotch whiskies, such as McCallen, sherry casks are used to age the whisky, so try try adding a bit of sherry to your whisky.

Bucky balls is the slang term for buckminster fullerene, which is a molecule of 60 carbons formed into a sphere. The thinking was that if you could coat a bucky ball with fluorine atoms you would in essence be creating the worlds smallest ballberring, which would create the worlds best lubricant.

i read that if it rots then it will ferment

This is incorrect. I can get a T-bone steak to rot, but I'd give a shiney new nickel to someone who could ferment it.

As much as I would like to say that hydrogen is the fuel of the future, it ain't. Hydrogen has a great power to weight ratio, but a piss poor power to volume ratio. The big orange tank on the space shuttle has hydrogen in it. Would you want to strap one of those tanks to your car? There are many pro...

What was the inital proof of your wash? if you were using a wash with only 6% ethanol in a potstill, then 80 proof is the best you can get.

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The high temperature of a still may destroy some of the toxic compounds found in some plants. Of course, I still wouldn't want to drink hemlock even after it has been boiled.

Every person enganged in this hobby has their own reasons for enjoying it. Some people like the finished product, some people like trying to distill the perfect spirit, some people like building and tinkering with stills, etc. If you don't want to build a still and tinker with it, then buying a stil...