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[MichiganCornhusker]

BTW googe I am following your build thread. Thank you for sharing with us.

googe's build thread for that desktop model is great!

[Jimbo]

Corene's fine work, makin bourbon in Jimbo's shed

[Stainless dude]

This is an awesome post...my screensaver just keeps on getting better...Keep them coming.
Stainless dude ...that is a sweet boiler. How big is it?

25 gallon

[CR33G3R]

Mine looks like child's play in comparison to some but hey it's mine..

[buflowing]

Geeze, have I got a long way to go. Truly amazing hardware on display. I've got a wicked case of the gimmees. Come on. Keep it coming.

[bentstick]

Mine looks like child's play in comparison to some but hey it's mine..

Naw none of it is childs play,we all started some where with simple and just took a different fork in the road and ended up at different destination,but all still go for the same thing,a better product we can call our own and be proud when some sips it and just smiles!

[googe]

Right back at ya capt . Your builds are bullshit stainless and empty, not fair!!!, bastards . Always loved your setup sunga, you got all basses covered to.the full extent!.

[CR33G3R]

Mine looks like child's play in comparison to some but hey it's mine..

Naw none of it is childs play,we all started some where with simple and just took a different fork in the road and ended up at different destination,but all still go for the same thing,a better product we can call our own and be proud when some sips it and just smiles!

True. I admire the time that people here have put into the fine builds in this thread.
And as for sharing a friend of mine was over watching the game last night and as he took a sip of a wheated whiskey I made he said " I don't think you realize how good your stuff is"
I just smiled and took a drink of a beer that he brought that he had made. He is a fantastic home brewer

[Jimbo]

Yesterday for a laugh I was gonna post my first condenser here. From 20 years ago. Its a worm in a bucket with plumbers putty piled on to seal the leaky hole where the copper comes through the bottom. Its pretty comical. Picture turned out fuzzy but you get the idea. Bentstick is right, we all started somewhere. My first still was a 1.5 gal pressure cooker, aluminum, with that bigass rubber seal. Made lots of brandy with that catastophy. There was no InternetRad back then to smack me in the head. Im on still #4 now, 10x bigger pot and 10x bigger ferment barrels, and making whiskeys now, thanks to the old hats here on HD. Life is GOOD. Happy Easter friends.

[emptyglass]

Pics of my last build. Armagnac still

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[bentstick]

Show off!


But ya have a right EG,very nice work there!

[LWTCS]

As always EG, a spectacular build.

[T-Pee]

Heavily modified Still Tutorial CM. Weird but it works very well.
Been getting the hankering to build another something.

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[corene1]

Here is a picture of my very first still I made a little over 2 years ago. It amazes me how ingenious and inventive all you folks are and how much still advancement has happened with the overall group here in the short time I have been here. Some of the fabrication is nothing short of FANTASTIC . Some are completely exotic while others are simple and straight forward. All are capable of making an excellent spirit with time and patience. Congratulations and thanks to all of you that have inspired all of us new folks. And yes it takes an ass chewing now and again to keep us thinking.

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[Jimbo]

Here is a picture of my very first still I made a little over 2 years ago. It amazes me how ingenious and inventive all you folks are and how much still advancement has happened with the overall group here in the short time I have been here. Some of the fabrication is nothing short of FANTASTIC . Some are completely exotic while others are simple and straight forward. All are capable of making an excellent spirit with time and patience. Congratulations and thanks to all of you that have inspired all of us new folks. And yes it takes an ass chewing now and again to keep us thinking.

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I still have some #2 from that still Corene, and it is a damn fine whiskey!

[corene1]

It can't be all that good if you still have it! I already drank all of the whiskey you sent me. Except that triple distilled AG Corn, rye, wheat, and barley. There was a quart at 62 % And I put in some once used sherry oak for another 2 months then cut it down to 42% and bottled a fifth and drank the rest . It is being saved for a special occasion. You made it in Dec. of 2013. It is really getting good!

[Jimbo]

Says a person who still has a fifth of mine. Oh yes it is good Corene. I drink gifts from others pretty slow. Savor them. Just a small pour every now and again. I have something left from most everything folks have given me, quite a few over the years. Had the chance to sample half dozen of Aquavita's last week at a meetup over dinner, but the sumbitch put the jars back in his bag and took them home!

Anyway, sorry for going off topic, here's my 3rd still incarnation. THis is what I developed the recipes posted here on. The leibig was overkill, but that sucker will knock ANYTHING down. With some copper mesh up in the vapor path the water flow is a slow trickle.

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[Drunk-N-Smurf]

Ok, I was bashful about mine cause it's soooo simple...but since others have similar designs I don't feel so bad now...

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I have two like this, the other is identical, except the Liebig is much longer.

[just sayin]

Panting and breathless and begging for more! Please don't stop now...

[moosemilk]

That is some badass sheet copper work Loki & Moose! Love to see that stuff.

Thanks. Still have more future builds planned. Don't have the skills of EG or Corene with working copper, but practice will get there.

Wow Moose... awesome copper rig. please dot ell us more about it

Thanks cap, it's the 12 gallon and 6 gallon from pintoshines plans. First time I ever worked with sheet. Gave the 6 gallon with copper flake stand to pops last year for father's day. Use the 12 myself. Got a 1/4 barrel stainless keg I'm going to use for a thumper now. Full build is in my sig

**edit** just to say this thread is so full of awesome and cool even the fonz would be jealous! Love seeing the diversity all in one thread. Great post, captain!

[moosemilk]

Corene's fine work, makin bourbon in Jimbo's shed

Hope you don't mind I sub'd you Jimbo

[S-Cackalacky]

Well, if you need a good laugh - dig the PVC liebig. This is the only still I've ever built and still using it. The thumper has changed. The thumper in the pic is 3 gallons and the new one is 4 gallons with a stock pot lid turned upside down. The boiler is 5 gallons. The riser/liebig can be moved to the boiler to run without the thumper. The liebig leaked like a sieve when I first built it, but after a tube of silcone sealant, it has worked great and I've seen no reason to go to the expense of rebuilding it. It runs on 120V with a 5500W element. I have to run it like hell a bunch of times to get any decent quantity of likker. It's about as simple and basic as it gets. I just figure I have to work harder for what I get so it must naturally taste better (optimistically speaking).

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[captainshooch]

It keeps getting better. Thank you all for sharing.
Drunk-n-smurf nothing about your rig to be bashfull about. It works!!
Great rigs Rockchucker, Jimbo,T-Pee, corene, all of them are very cool..wow a lot of talent around here!!!

[MichiganCornhusker]

It's about as simple and basic as it gets.[/attachment]

Nice rig, S-Cack, its beauty is in its very simplicity. Almost schematic in its design. And, yes, the PVC is a nice touch.

[Brutal]

I'll go. I've got a big pot still head and a modular thumper set up. The thump set up can be run with any 2" sankey keg as a secondary, or any vessel with a 2" flange.



The thumper arm is also set up to accept a steam injection attachment. I use it to cook grains and mash right in the fermenter.

You can kinda see my stealth controller in this one.

[The KYChemist]

Just a Boka... But she does pull 95% and change...

[S-Cackalacky]

Brutal, if there was an award for designing a rig to get the most work done in the easiest most efficient way, you would get my vote. You and Shady and TB have done ground breaking work in stretching the limits of pot still/thumper design.

[MichiganCornhusker]

I have seen a few other threads where some people have shown off their stills, but this one seems to have really taken off! Such great construction, and so many great ideas on display. To have all this visual information in one thread will be very valuable. A seriously talented group of people, keep 'em coming!

[Brutal]

Brutal, if there was an award for designing a rig to get the most work done in the easiest most efficient way, you would get my vote. You and Shady and TB have done ground breaking work in stretching the limits of pot still/thumper design.

I do like Brutals' work!

Thanks a lot fellas. I've got some pretty basic stuff looking at all the bling in here. I just don't have as much time as I would like to dedicate to this hobby. It's almost like money is less of a constraint than time, almost..

Future builds, first a semi new design condenser. You guys are gonna love it. Then a stripper/fermenter.. A 2-3 plate SS rig is on the radar but seems far away.

[captainshooch]

Brutal said " A 2-3 plate SS rig is on the radar but seems far away" don't give up. you will love a plated column once you get to play with one