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Welcome, myself knows what loadshedding is. I run electric but I have a boiler that I can run on gas. Read plenty and stay safe.

Welcome, HD is a great resource. Myself from RSA, quite a few of us here. Keep an open mind, read a lot and enjoy.

I stand to be corrected - but would that bottom section with the bubblers and under the deflag give at least some reflux? The top section is maybe that high to work the jars bench level, This is what I was thinking. Also packing the column should add some as well. I down want to chop the column, so...

Do you run strips and then spirit?

If the OP use the top column only as take-off no isues. I do not see any cooling in the top part, my gues it is just a tall pot still.

Put the VM on top of the LM. The initial theory was that you use LM for fores and heads and VM for hearts. If the VM is on top you do not contaminate your VM head.... that was the theory. Outside return of LM, look at RLM, reverse LM. It works but is just something more to fidle with. StillStiring r...

For neutral, start with a clean ferment. run low wines that you stripped to 30% or higher. Dilute with water to 15 - 20%. I am not contesting a fluidized column but I think it is extreme to get there.

I run flutes. One has procap style caps other perfs, 5 plates each self buid old school. I only do maize meal with enzymes and or lately yellow lable. I do 2 strips and then a spirit run that I usually top off with beer. When I built my first flute I did one and done runs but once I invested the tim...

Well as usual , the Devil is in the detail , and in this case its the cost . First off I looked at 6 manual valves , three for filling , three for drains . I wouldn’t want to go smaller than 3/4” , but in Staino , they add up and then one has to be operating valves all day. So I looked at Solenoid ...

Best yet, is when I stop at nearby friend's grain bins. She gets to rat hunt until worn out, while we drink beer and watch her work. Man, you sure could baby sit me once or twice a year. Ya want to chase critters or drink beer with the farm boys. :lol: I will take the beer with the boys, thank you....

shadylane wrote: ↑Fri May 26, 2023 11:28 pm Best yet, is when I stop at nearby friend's grain bins.
She gets to rat hunt until worn out, while we drink beer and watch her work.

Man, you sure could baby sit me once or twice a year.

Good for you, keep at it. Myself was clean for 21 years then my teen age boy started. But last May after 10 years I just stopped.

TrailerDan wrote: ↑Thu May 25, 2023 5:15 am beautiful build ,man

Thanks!

Welcome Dan. Myself a fellow Saffer. Quite a few on here not many is active posters. HD is a tremendous resource, have fun and stay safe.

Now I’ve been puzzling on a new recipe but i haven’t seen no one ask this question. But whiskey made from starchy grain with dominant corn which is a vegetable. Can other vegetables with loads of starches like plantains be added and be labeled as whiskey? Corn is a grass. Geoff Yes the stalk is but...

Now I’ve been puzzling on a new recipe but i haven’t seen no one ask this question. But whiskey made from starchy grain with dominant corn which is a vegetable. Can other vegetables with loads of starches like plantains be added and be labeled as whiskey? I always thought corn or maize in my neck o...

@Shady. Keep lookiing and posting.
Drinking and posting.....

I get thy are dinking prunes BUT what are they eating?

Nice post Yummy , you explain it a whole lot more diplomatically and a whole lot better than I do. :thumbup: Think we just have different ways of saying the same thing .Different folk hear things they like and don’t like . We all trying to tell the same story . Jonnys got even another take on it . ...

Had to goole... live in south africa roots from France. Lovely country but there is a reason why my forefathers left. Well done for Mexico winning the fight i will celebrate... sorry for the french guys on here, you are a great bunch.

Search for Booners casual corn, Shineoncrazydiamond's large corn ferments and no mash no sugar threads on here. Forget the other that you have read.

Thanks for all the input, especially to Normandie for his great idea. I'm going to discard my 3/8" CSST coil (difficult to get thru and attached to end cap) and make a double wound 1/4 OD copper coil, so it will be a bit before I run it again. Myself would stay with the 3/8. It packs salt bett...

There is no need to pour the shot into the beer if you follow that procedure here https://www.luettjelage.com/epages/64518373.mobile/en_GB/?ObjectPath=/Shops/64518373/Categories/Seite__Kategorie/Anleitung&Locale=en_GB Works well after some training That takes me back to another favorite. We cal...

In the '80s I was drafted... beer were always warm. A shot of brandy or 2 made for good drinking, or so I thought a the time. Today I rather have a cold beer without a shot.

A pot with an inverted lid. Inverted lid full of water create a water seal and reflux. A suitable vessel inside the pot to collect distlate from inverted lid. A copper pipe to direct distillate from vessel inside pot to a product condenser. BOBs your uncle. Or you have just recreated Mary the Jewess...

Myself run CCVM on my flutes. I doubt you will taste a difference between product from a CCVM and CM head. I am with Shady, not that I have any experience with CM. The flavour in a flute comes in a large part from the action on the plates. Yes, reflux does clean the product but the plates concentrat...

Toto, have you looked at lentils on alembic stills. On here is some references but it is in unrelated threads. Not that I understand the reason behind them but they do exist.

I was gonna to use 3/8" tubing for the cold finger. What do y'all think??? I'm not sure if it will matter what diameter you use for the cold finger so long as you get a clean, leak free join to it. From the pictures though mate, it looks like with the sight glass on top, that coil will not go ...

Here are a few photos of things that Ive cooked up in my ovens in recent times, new phone that takes bigger photos that broke the forums size rules, so had to work that out before posting. First off some Sausage Rolls, do you Americans make / have/ eat, these or are they just an Aussie/ Kiwi/ Pommy...

Did you look at Booners casual corn thread? Your low SG may be low conversion or low grain to water.

Get some high temp enzymes. Or get Angel yellow lable yeast. Also in a thread somewhere on HD.

I still want to see it running "Balls out". PLEASE?!