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All you lushes have a good day and best wishes for the coming holiday season.

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Can someone in Ontario tell me where I can buy a ss beer keg in Ontario.

Otherwise it's a ss pot for me in the Spring.

G

Another great buy from Mexico. Even a nice copper boiler with a weldable lid
would probably be an excellent idea and easy to build.

Unrelated to the subject, but while you are there; take throwaway luggage and buy a locally made leather set. Super value.

Thanks for the tip.

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HookLine wrote:

CoopsOz wrote:You saved yourself $8 bucks though!

That is the main reason I use tomato paste, etc, instead of Turbos. $$$

Exactly,

Have a good day.

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Pintoshine Quote Maybe it is just my class still behaves so much different than you describe. Maybe it is just a matter of style. I am not being critical and I am not saying anyone is wrong, I am just saying I fix my heat after I get the upward flow I want which, is heavy. I fix my cooling water at ...

heres is what i have http://www.cdn-timeandtemp.com/retailer/products/new-products/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" rel="nofollow Its model T5572 seems its a 39 inch sensor cable that wraps around the unit . its shows fractions like 78.5 ect..or whatever only thi...

mine shows that birdwatcher .. Im gonna go get it out and I will post the info..it has the alarm also I dont think the alarm goes in the like 77.1 it alarms at full numbers but it shows incrediments on the reading is that what ya talking about ? Thanks. Not available up here as far as I know. Appre...

I have chucked my glass thermometers. I never broke one over the years, but the worry was always there. Harder to read. I have now opted for meat digital thermometers. I really like the guys with the alarm. This I use at the top of my boilers because(unfortunately) they don't indicate fractions of d...

No, the column is not insulated. I read posts about it and the idea was up in the air so i never bothered. If I don't sit there and constantly adjust the element control it can get as high as 95C. The temperature constantly rises and i have to keep turning the heat down. From reading posts here mos...

Hi Cadbury, Relax. Your reflux still is operating correctly. My new reflux still looks almost the same as in the picture, except my condenser is housed in 2" copper, I presume like yours. My boiler heating element is 750 W. At a withdrawal rate of 240 ml of ethanol per hour or 4ml. per minute o...

I see, that would have been probably one of my many mistakes. Can you recommend a fermenter? Are we talking a five gallon bucket, trash can or does it need to be a stainless steel pot? I like Rubbermaid opaque white storage containers. Various sizes with lids. Also being considered by a few of us r...

I'm still a little green to still building some friends and I have been building and using stills for about a year. Until now they have all been gas heated. Gas works well but I'm looking to build my next still with electric elements in the boiler. How are you controlling the amount of heat deliver...

tater wrote:

pothead wrote:i never had any tomato flavor in my product when using paste

I havent either.

Me neither.

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I see lots of great ideas here. I checked the garage and without moving a couple of motorcylces out and some other stuff, there's no way to get one of the old fridges into the house right now. We are into a deep freeze here with the latest ice storms etc. so I don't care to drag stuff out of the ga...

Well I like the one Husker pointed out.....it says you can get 600ml/Hour of 95%..... :shock: .....if I can get that.....I will be in moonshine heaven.... But looking at the plans....not sure I fully get it...the part about the plate that is soldered near the middle of the column.... birdwatcher......

I alreadt have a reflux still (PSII from Brewhaus) and it seems that not many people use this type...So im willing to try and build myself a new column that I could use with my current 30L boiler... I would like to build something for speed and just wanna make some neutral washes for now.. I read t...

I was a winemaker, from concentrates and homegrown raspberries. One year I had a large crop of potatoes at my weekend getaway place, grown above ground, under straw (another story). One problem, they were all nibbled by mice. What to do. I thought, I'll make vodka. Like most people, I was under the ...

BW, you have been here long enough, I should not have to point you to the parent site, but oh well :) http://homedistiller.org/equip/types" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" rel="nofollow NOTE the "internal reflux" still is just labeled as a reflux still. ...

If money was no object and with big time welding skills with access to a glassblower. Before I go to that great distillery in the sky I would like to build a two inch, inline, fractioning still. The column would be say 36" with the packed section made of clear pyrex glass with SS or copper end ...

thanks birdwatcher.....im gonna stick to making neutral washes for now and once I have it down packed....i'll venture into making the UJSM... i've got like 12 packs of ec1118.....I guess I could use these..... :D .. Make wine out of it or take it back to the wine shop and trade it for a carboy or s...

My wifes making jam again

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Insulated plastic container, big white dude. I popped into our local Canadian Tire Store yesterday and the largest they had was 66 lites. All plastic. They said because it's Winter. The big fellas will be back in Spring. Nevertheless, they are much sturdier than the storage containers that I'm now ...

I would go by purity of your final product, rather than manufacturer claims. The rate that you'll be able to fractionally distill is also (somewhat) dependent on the alcohol concentration of your wash. Its possible that they got those numbers by distilling something that was already 70%, for exampl...

Very interesting stuff, but getting confusing for some.

What would be very helpful, for this forum, if possible would be a diagram of:

a. a fractioning still.
b. an internal reflux still

Could anyone accommodate.

G

P.S: I've been reading the parent site over and over and I also got the books: Making Gin and Vodka, Firefly and Shadylane, If your aim is to simply make 95% ethanol, save your money and use ordinary fresh bakers yeast, available refrigerated at any good health food store and follow instructions in...

Birdwatcher, I have seen them at Wal-Mart many times, 120 refers to quarts, so should be about 30 gals. Just thinking out loud here; but assuming this is an insulated metal container with a hinged top; through that drilled hole in the top you could dangle an appropriate wattage aquarium heater to h...

igloo cooler (120) drilled hole in lid put in a piece of tubing for blowoff. put cork in hole from bottom of lid when using to keep beer cold. multitasker! Hi Jake, Is that beer cooler 120 liters or bottles? If bottles, what is its capacity. What is it made of and where did you buy it? Are they ava...

AfricaUnite wrote:Hey guys I just checked the no frills flyer and theyve got 4kg bags of sugar for $2. Thats 50 cents a KG. Limit 3/customer. Best deal ive seen on sugar in a long time.

Thanks.

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my exiting coolant water flow is probably equivalent to a german shephard pissing on a stump.... sorry, but could'nt figure out how to descbribe it any better, atleast you can "visualize" what i mean.. Well, I think we have all made our points with this discussion. Frankly, I've never fel...