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- Fri Feb 23, 2007 12:31 pm
- Forum: Pot Distillation/Thumper and Design
- Topic: My new still
- Replies: 17
- Views: 7642
- Thu Feb 22, 2007 1:24 pm
- Forum: Column Builds
- Topic: Plans for still
- Replies: 14
- Views: 18572
- Mon Feb 19, 2007 7:33 pm
- Forum: Still Related Hardware
- Topic: Ever hear of or use a stiling cycle engine on your rig?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 3847
I've never seen one before... save for a few schematics on Wikipedia. They sound like they would be a very good addition to the world, being a better way of extracting usable energy from fuel, as 80% more energy is recovered from the fuel than with a conventional internal combustion engine. Any sour...
- Sun Feb 18, 2007 2:17 pm
- Forum: Mashing and Fermenting
- Topic: did I screw up?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 2572
I've tried using the cling wrap method before... didn't really work out. I use a pair of 2.5 gallon ice cream buckets which have a lid on them. Punched a hole in the top, stuck a length of anhydrous ammonia tubing (never used, of course) in the hole (we have a lot of it lying around... >300-400 acre...
- Thu Feb 15, 2007 4:11 pm
- Forum: Still Related Hardware
- Topic: Bottles and glassware
- Replies: 15
- Views: 4406
I prefer to use old glass Karo (corn syrup) bottles. I go through a lot of them. We make a lot of peanut brittle around Christmastime, which requires a lot of corn syrup. 16oz. Snapple bottles are good for gifts. I store tails in Mason jars so, I would never use them for a finished product. Those bo...
- Sat Feb 10, 2007 11:14 am
- Forum: Yeasts, Enzymes, Fungi, Nutrients
- Topic: beano question
- Replies: 8
- Views: 4900
- Fri Feb 09, 2007 5:38 pm
- Forum: Still Related Hardware
- Topic: Common Household materials?
- Replies: 21
- Views: 5238
- Fri Feb 09, 2007 5:34 pm
- Forum: Still Related Hardware
- Topic: Bad Copper?!? This can't be true!!!
- Replies: 23
- Views: 7191
- Fri Feb 09, 2007 5:24 pm
- Forum: Still Related Hardware
- Topic: Common Household materials?
- Replies: 21
- Views: 5238
Oh God... After all of the feuds and nearly wars about using plastic, nobody should ever ask about plastic again. The only polymer safe for use in stills is PTFE. Don't expect that wok to heat up very quickly. Ricky just screw an ugly fat chick and see how long it takes that to spread all over campu...
- Mon Feb 05, 2007 8:27 am
- Forum: Flavoring and Aging
- Topic: Using Different Species of Oak
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2275
- Mon Feb 05, 2007 7:32 am
- Forum: Flavoring and Aging
- Topic: Using Different Species of Oak
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2275
Using Different Species of Oak
As it appears in this forum, everybody prefers to use regular white oak (Quercus alba) over any others for toasting to age in bottles. Has anybody tried to use other species such as swamp white oak (Quercus bicolor) or pin oak (Quercus palustrius)? I recently came across a fallen swamp white oak, an...
- Sat Feb 03, 2007 1:04 pm
- Forum: Flavoring and Aging
- Topic: Charcoal
- Replies: 20
- Views: 7877
I've made charcoal in my wood stove with stuff I found lying around the house. Simply take a soup can, fill it with shavings, cover it with aluminum foil, punch a small hole in the top, and set it on the coals of a wood furnace or charcoal grill. Welding gauntlets or thick gauge steel tongs are a mu...
- Sun Jan 28, 2007 2:11 pm
- Forum: Off-Topic Discussion
- Topic: how will you do
- Replies: 8
- Views: 2291
- Sun Jan 28, 2007 1:59 pm
- Forum: Off-Topic Discussion
- Topic: About time to start fishing again...
- Replies: 40
- Views: 12575
I've sunk old Christmas trees for structure in a small pond before. It looks a little bit over elaborate, going to the trouble of sticking PVC in concrete. Try it and see how it turns out. If you're stocking a pond, sinking structure is necessary or else you will just keep on restocking baitfish for...
- Sun Jan 28, 2007 1:58 pm
- Forum: Off-Topic Discussion
- Topic: About time to start fishing again...
- Replies: 40
- Views: 12575
I've sunk old Christmas trees for structure in a small pond before. It looks a little bit over elaborate, going to the trouble of sticking PVC in concrete. Try it and see how it turns out. If you're stocking a pond, sinking structure is necessary or else you will just keep on restocking baitfish for...
- Mon Jan 22, 2007 3:24 pm
- Forum: Research and Theory
- Topic: Has anyone tried using Stevia?
- Replies: 16
- Views: 6782
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stevia In 1931, two French chemists isolated the glycosides that give stevia its sweet taste.[4] These extracts were named stevioside and rebaudioside. These compounds are 250–300 times sweeter than sucrose (ordinary table sugar), heat stable, pH stable, and non-ferment...
- Sun Jan 21, 2007 12:30 pm
- Forum: Still Related Hardware
- Topic: whats the deal?
- Replies: 14
- Views: 4333
arkansas: Just another thought on your problem, a leaky lid will decress your yeild by alot. Alcohol vapors are near impossible to see. Like I said, just a thought, seen this yeild problem and was not a good thing at all. Can't agree more with ya. On my very first run, I hadn't had the leaks worked...
- Tue Jan 16, 2007 4:16 pm
- Forum: Column Builds
- Topic: Air cooled Still.
- Replies: 25
- Views: 7098
- Mon Jan 15, 2007 4:04 pm
- Forum: Tried and True Recipes
- Topic: Uncle Remus' apple/alder wood smoked barley whiskey
- Replies: 46
- Views: 57365
- Fri Jan 12, 2007 10:33 am
- Forum: Still Related Hardware
- Topic: galvanize pip?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 2920
I believe that galvanized metal corrodes in the presence of alcohol vapor, and is very poisonous. Copper is pretty cheap (comparatively). Copper fittings are also easy to find. Go for copper, the chemistry people in this forum say that it neutralizes some unwanted tastes when it's in the vapor path.
- Fri Jan 12, 2007 10:25 am
- Forum: Still Related Hardware
- Topic: What type of cork.
- Replies: 12
- Views: 3193
- Thu Jan 11, 2007 4:56 pm
- Forum: Pot Distillation/Thumper and Design
- Topic: introducing my pot still
- Replies: 21
- Views: 8009
It appears that I'm not the only one who uses fuel hose. :) I slide a short section on the end of my coil where it attaches to the lid to allow for easy disassembly. The only other plastic part is an HDPE tip from a graphite bottle used to seal my thermometer in the lid (couldn't find any corks :( )...
- Tue Jan 09, 2007 1:28 pm
- Forum: Flavoring and Aging
- Topic: Aging in Plastic Barrels
- Replies: 29
- Views: 12212
- Tue Jan 09, 2007 1:01 pm
- Forum: Flavoring and Aging
- Topic: Charcoal
- Replies: 20
- Views: 7877