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Jedidiah you are one of those folks I am so proud to have as a friend

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=V9wXyYFlr8g Got me a grinder comin. It not as nice as this one but same model. Has full set of screens and cob crusher. Cattle n hogs gonna eat good long as got enef power to run it Uncle had one about like that for pig tucker. It was belt ran like that of a McCormick ...

Some snow might be nice, had day after day of rain drizzle and sleet, man oh man I hate sleet

By rights you should be ok as SA is virtually Kung flu free but ya never can be too sure

Ya want a crisp vodka from a basic pot let is clear and strip to low wines, run low wines slowish to high wines and do rough cuts then run your high wines at a slow spirit run speed and do precision cuts. If you want a dead neutral from a basic pot still marbles work best, fill ya mouth full of em a...

Ok I'll kick off a short list of Australian Rums, there are 40 odd rum distilleries here. Rum has a long history in Oz due to it being the main ration of the English Navy and due to a lack of hard currency rum was used as a tender from 1788 until at least 1810 and unofficially probably much later th...

The jars ya wash out are definitely no good for aging, not even too sure about mason jars Stainless lid preserving jars are ok if the seals are made of cork or Teflon or can be wrapped. A lot of the older canning jars have glass lids and good seals for alcohol. Those bigger jars you got there no dou...

As others have said chill it right down and filter it before it can warm, what you get you might want to re-run as that is gonna have some real raggedy arsed tails in it

Dunno, I found plates run pretty tough at 75% , smearing trash for more body is a heck of a juggling act.

nerdybrewer wrote: ↑Mon Jun 08, 2020 4:18 pm Also blowing everything out that end of my body is getting kind of tiresome.

Ah so you sayin all those tool sacks panic buying all the bog roll were actually onto something

Anyone tried Fijian rum? Sorry I'm late to this party. Your post reminded me that I have some and just tasted it again. I love it. Do you know of any brands worth checking out? 20200606_203136.jpg Fijian Rum Co owned or partly owned by Amatil Coke brought out a Rum called Bounty (no doubt named for...

So glad to read you are noticing improvement, weird how it effects folks differently. My aunty seems to have made an almost full recovery , uncle never caught it and her younger otherwise healthy friend passed away. Seems like it's just luck of the draw to some extent how each person's body will fig...

Don't that shit ya, I use to get that sorta mess with rum with the pot back in the day. That said it always scrubbed up just dandy in the spirit run.

Drink it with coke, couldn't be more dangerous than the mixer

Ya going crazy because ya can't find where the electronic blanket is stored and it ain't coz the bed is cold.

I read these stories and they remind me of my own young years which is confusing at first given a lot of the authors have a few years on me. I thought about this a bit and reckon I wouldn't be far off with my conclusion. I was told by travelers when I was a kid that we (we being rural Australia) wer...

Was Suzie's Birthday today so tonight we planned on having hagis with taters and neeps. Musta boiled a bit much and the damn hagis ruptured. No one seemed a whole lot interested in sheep guts porridge so we have Penang chicken instead, might try again for tomorrow

Any idea what sort of wine Mch? I have great results using my old Italian oak barrels that use to age my home made port in. Other than rinsing and conditioning it with hot water I just started filling it with rum at around 68% and eventually the flavours melded perfectly

Yeah Geoff that is not too far from me

Just a quick update for anyone interested, my Aunty seems to have recovered all be it with some permanent respiratory damage. Still that is a better outcome than it could have been as her fit and healthy 62 year old friend she was supposed to be quarrentined with passed away, also my uncle is out of...

Correct, this is why quite often the boiler was sold separate to the still. The states do vary in their wording concerning distillation and some states legislation is more vague than others. The ATO (federal legislation) deals with tax evasion and that is not vague, that is all spirits produced for ...

G'day Boss, as long as you did the column and condenser out of copper you shouldn't need any packing beyond maybe a huffing baffle.

Welcome here, no shortage of knowledge and sage advice in this place