Thoughts on my reflux column design.

[chunkystyles]

First thing, I'm new here. So I'd like to say hi.

I've been doing a lot of research on everything regarding the fermenting and distillation of alcohol and this site has been my best resource so far.

I've come up with a design for a still that I really haven't seen anywhere else. I've already started making it out of 3" stainless tubing. My boiler will be a regular aluminium keg and I'll be using a propane fish frier. I've attached a crude drawing of my design. A few things that the design doesn't show are: the packing (copper mesh) will start at the bottom of the first condenser and go all the way to the bottom of the column, each condenser will have it's own flow control valve connected at the top of the cap, and the condensers will be 8" double coils made from 1/4" copper tubing. I'm going to wind the inner coil around a 1" pipe and then wind the outer coil around a 2" pipe. I'm thinking that a condenser that fat should be able to knock all the vapor down.

My father is a machinist and is making most of this still for me. He's making everything modular so changes can be made with little effort.

I'm curious what you guys think about this design. I will probably have it done sometime this weekend and I will be able to post pictures then.