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Tails... One jar less at the tails end of the blend should fix that... Its hard to not blend that one extra jar, but look what happens...

Be prepared to rebuild the carburetor on that old lawn mower... Even new mower manufacturers recommend running non-ethanol gasoline... Older mower seals will fail a lot quicker than those in newer mowers...

If you have a re-flux still you can re-distill it as mann times as you wish buy remember this ... you never get 100% recovery from the wash. You will lose a little every time you run it. Correct... You will lose what is left behind in the boiler, depending on how far down you run... Even if you ran...

I found some PTFE hose to use as the gasket between my pot and my lid but I needed to bond the ends of the hose. It's insanely difficult to find a glue that will work on slippery stuff like that. Found a loctite primer that sounds like it will then allow regular superglue to work on it. It's all on...

Oh, I know what's on the parent site... But these very forums are considered to contain information that supersedes the parent site... Considering how the content on the parent site hasn't changed since the early 2000's and these forums being newer than that, which would you tend to believe and rely...

Appalachia-Shiner wrote:Reminds me of that dam in West Virginia many years ago.
No. Wait. It was Pennsylvania. Johnstown? In the late 18 hundreds.

Austin Dam... I have pictures of what remains and have been there several times over the years... It was recently designated the Austin Dam Memorial Park...

a concentric is a whole column setup with its own type of collection. My idea is just a reflux coil. Like I said in the title. To be used atop a VM or LM column Maybe I should draw it out more clearly. Ummm... No... I have concentric reflux condensers that can be swapped out with each other or repl...

Oh, where to start...!!! Yet more signs that you need to do some research... Yeast convert "sugar" alcohol and CO2... Starch is useless in a ferment and need to be converted to sugar via enzymes... You'll learn that and more when you do ample research... As far as your wash, you could try ...

mendodistilling, I'm not liking what I'm reading in your post above... NEVER leave a still unattended... There's simply no excuse... If you really have to leave it, shut it down...!!! You're also hinting at automation and we don't condone even thinking about that until you have more than a firm gras...

Don't do anything more until you have done what we consider mandatory research here in these forums as well as reading the entire parent site, keeping in mind that some of the information on it is dated... These forums are more up to date but a lot of the theories and fundamentals that you are lacki...

Stick with a recipe from the Tried and True Recipe forum until you have a proper handle on things... One pound per gallon gives a 7% ABV potential yield, if you stuck with a total of 2.5 gallons of water... But you never added any nutrients so the yeast aren't going to stay healthy or happy... You h...

There is no packing, not much room to put any, perhaps 20-30% of one steel pot scrubber, better than none I guess. I guess I could get allot more in without the marble, might be worth experimenting. I was fairly skeptical when I first used it, being so compact, but, ya can't argue with results, it ...

Soldering is a good addition to your skill-set to have... I've been soldering since I was a kid - literally... I was soldering electronics and sweating plumbing joints before I was 10 years old... Everything you need to start soldering will cost somewhere in the range of $30 - $50... I still have my...

DBCFlash, yes, one can of tomato paste would have been plenty... As far as your OG, you could add a bit more water now that you don't have a huge krausen on top of your wash so they yeast colony is less stressed as the ferment progresses... The more you can add the better... Sounds good otherwise...

1118 survives temps below freezing. Just warm it up after a freeze, you'll see. Most all yeasts will survive freezing, otherwise they probably wouldn't still exist... I store my bakers yeast in the freezer from the time I open a vacuum sealed brick... It's definitely more sensitive to temperature, ...

Greetings, crazytim... The use of alcohol is legal but, as Bushman stated, the production of alcohol is illegal even for personal use in most parts of the world... It would help if you were to edit your profile to include at least a rough regional location that you call home... There may be fellow m...

TxBrewing, you're now a bonafide moonshiner...!!! Congratulations...!!!

The issue at hand is that although Uncle Jesse now owns the domain name that hosts the parent site it is still copyrighted by Tony Akland so we are limited on how much the content can be modified... We have updated the look and feel of the parent site and made a few additions but removal of existing...

For future reference, bakers yeast likes a temperature range of 75F/24C - 85F/30C (higher is also ok for bakers yeast) and will start into the dormancy phase around 70F/21C... So your wash is too cold for bakers yeast... The wash temperature drops throughout the fermentation cycle so you may need to...

Again... How long is a piece of string...??? Aside from the boiling points of ideal solutions, there are too many variables for us to give you the answer you think you need... Another question... Why do you want to know...??? Put it into context... You've been told that adjusting the heat input does...

If you're going to be boiling off the alcohol anyway, which is "distilling", why are you worried...??? Now, if you were worried about heavy metals that would be something else altogether... But even county water tests don't check for heavy metals without you requesting it and paying extra...

Depends... No, not those adult things...

How long is a piece of string...???

Honestly, we need more details in order to entertain a logical answer...

Wiked, you're thinking too much and trying to make a simple task overly complicated...!!!

How long is a piece of string...???

"Carbohydrates" To the best of my knowledge, "Sugars" ARE Carbohydrates :- You go ahead and try fermenting "carbohydrates", grains in particular, as stated in the text, without enzymes, and let us know how you get on with that... The flaw in the text is that there is n...

By my count we're currently at:

HD consensus = 6
afleetalex = zero

Kinda hard to dispute the early results... The ball is in your court, afleetalex... I don't see things swaying in your favor any time soon...

Rad, I have read and read and read. Look at my profile at my sign up date and then the date of my first attempt. I spent a long time reading. I have made beer and wine for a long time so the fermentation part I know. I am not actually stumbling I am making what to me is pretty good liquor but I alw...

Greetings, sdj755... Yes, people do get busted but not because of this site... They make any of a number of dumb mistakes that come back to haunt them... To avoid such an unfortunate experience just keep a low profile, keep your interest and participation if the hobby to yourself, and above all else...

Greetings, Wiked... It sounds like you're entering the hobby with a good attitude and willingness to learn, which is a far stretch more than some new members who have registered over the years and even recently... The information is here for the taking and unless one gets over the information overlo...

Step One: If you're not addressing the question I asked... Step Two: Don't say anything at all. Step Three: When I want your opinion, I'll ask for it. You don't get a choice in who replies to your questions... Just because you don't like the answers and advisement's provided doesn't make them any l...

<SNIP> I have to say I'm surprised how many admit to still using baker's yeast and I think some research would be beneficial. Here is something I came across in the past ;- This part is especially relevant I think ".........The most common top-cropping brewer's yeast, S. cerevisiae, is the sam...