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Just taking a moment to say hello to all ... Some background info on me-> Been in building construction for 20 years, mostly commercial stuff. Always wanted to make my own spirits, but information was hard to come by in my area, upper midwest U.S. Then I found this site! Wow! long story short, I have a pile of copper in the shop, a stainless boiler and will be starting my 2" Boka this weekend. Also putting together a pot still head for stripping runs. Finished the Liebig last night. will put up some pics in the build section soon.
HI!
planning on using any local corn in your spirits? I love harvest around here! I can usually scoop 75-100# of grains off the road from truck spills. Makes for some fun brewing and distilling. Local is the way to go if you can!
Everything I do or say may or may not have really happened... or it may or may not be all bull shit!
Turning money into steam and likker 10 gallons at a time!
I just want Uncle Sam to be more like Uncle Jessy!
Well, as far as type of spirits goes,I guess in my mind (if i can ever catch up to it) I have an affliction for rum. Good old fashioned pirate brew! The plan is to make a bunch and then age it in some toasted casks, and hopefully come out with some reallllly nice sipping rum. Im not expecting my first batch to be there, but half the fun is gonna be testing the mix til I get it just right! The other half the fun is building the still! and the next one, and the next one! the liebig was a piece of cake, and kinda a warm up...tonight we start on the main condenser for the Boka. Gonna be a double wrap with a 1/2" coldfinger. fabbing up a winder on the bench as we speak! I'd love to see some of your best rum recipe's if you'all are willing to share!
streetrat wrote:Well, as far as type of spirits goes,I guess in my mind (if i can ever catch up to it) I have an affliction for rum. Good old fashioned pirate brew! ... I'd love to see some of your best rum recipe's if you'all are willing to share!
Well my Boka is gonna be "modular" for just such a problem. the packed column will be removable from the boiler, and be able to be replaced with a potstill head and column. The main reason for the Boka was simply for the ability to make "purer" spirits when I get tired of rum or get an itch i need to scratch!
Hmmmm Prairie, good question....to dunder pit or not dunder pit.....? O.K. that's as far as I can fake it... time for a noob question...and yes I read ALL the required reading. but Dunder pit? not a clue...
Oh your in for a treat on this one. Suggest you do some searches for dunder pit. Any good rum guy is gona need to know what a dunder pit is. Just don't fall in one.
Sounds intriguing...will take more research for sure..but first thought is it will have to wait/be developed as i go since it requires some sort of used material from the boil. thanks for the heads up though!
I did read this thread and have done something similar as far as the "winder" but I set the height between the winder pipe and bench just slightly more than th OD of my copper (3/8) and wound the copper into that space allowing the benchtop to do most of the work bending. all I had to do was keep tension on copper and guide it for spacing of the wraps. I did fill my copper with salt and had no flattening of the tube at all.
Did he really just spell "liebig" correctly in his first post on HD? That puts you in the front of the pack. Can't wait to see your finished still, something tells me you're one of those naturals.
... Some background info on me-> Been in building construction for 20 years, mostly commercial stuff. Always wanted to make my own spirits, but information was hard to come by in my area, upper midwest U.S. Then I found this site! Wow! long story short, I have a pile of copper in the shop, a stainless boiler and will be starting my 2" Boka this weekend. Also putting together a pot still head for stripping runs. Finished the Liebig last night. will put up some pics in the build section soon. 
