Giving your still a name

[CROW-EATER]

While researching types of stills and historical information on distilleries I've found that some people give their stills a name, even some comercial distillers have named their stills.

I thought it would be fun to discuss how and why names are chosen.

I get the ball rolling ... after a small handful of runs I've decided to name my still Aunt Beth.

My Aunt Beth was strict but fair, she didn't blur the lines between right and wrong, she was precise and got things perfect the first time with her chosen profession which was Calligraphy ... what a great old school art.

I recon my still is much like her, it likes to be run in a strict manner, nice and steady to maintain a good ballance.
It doesn't blur the lines between heads, hearts and tails .. each one comes along with total predictably and no uncertainty.
One run and it's done ... now that's precision
Distilling alcohol ... that's as old school as button up boots.

Here's cheers to you Aunt Beth

[ranger_ric]

My youngest son (22yrs) says I should name it Heywouldja... He says everytime he comes around me and the still I say Heywouldja pour this fermenter over here, Heywouldja pick up some corn in town, Heywouldja sit down and try some of this with me.......

There is a similar post located here ..http://ww.homedistiller.org/forum/viewt ... =7&t=16106" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" rel="nofollow
However this is a fun post...

[pfshine]

Might wanna fix that link rr

[ranger_ric]

fixed...(I think...)
Thanks PFShine

[pfshine]

Yep all good now

[CROW-EATER]

My youngest son (22yrs) says I should name it Heywouldja... He says everytime he comes around me and the still I say Heywouldja pour this fermenter over here, Heywouldja pick up some corn in town, Heywouldja sit down and try some of this with me.......

There is a similar post located here ..http://ww.homedistiller.org/forum/viewt ... =7&t=16106" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" rel="nofollow
However this is a fun post...

Whoops ... I didn't check for that

[ranger_ric]

PfShine.... Heywouldja measure that corn out for me??
LOL

[pfshine]

Not a problem. 2.25 lbs a gallon right?

[ranger_ric]

Oooops PF... not on a sugar wash... 7# per 5 gallons.. my friend... Thanks for the help.. LOL
PF what did you name your still??

[pfshine]

Which one. I have several and have made many more. The rig I'm using right now I have to call goldilocks cause it's not to big and not to small it's just right for where I'm at right now. And you gotta go ag rr. It's the only way to live

[ranger_ric]

I have looked at AG and will get there soon... Currently up against income barriers and the SOH wont let me run in the kitchen...
Heywouldja tote that corn bag over near the grinder????? LOL

[ranger_ric]

+1 to goldilocks!!

[CROW-EATER]

I want to make a simple, crude, rustic, skanky old pot still and name it after my mother in law ... Barbara

[ranger_ric]

Only problem with that name is that "Barbara" the "Still" delivers every time!!! MIL's not so much..... your thoughts....??????

[CROW-EATER]

Only problem with that name is that "Barbara" the "Still" delivers every time!!! MIL's not so much..... your thoughts....??????

Perhaps I'll make it from lead ... so it makes venom.

[goinbroke2]

As per my OP in the other thread;

My propane spirit still is "Samantha, a sweet spirit"

My electric still is "Candy, cause she's a stripper"

Course now I have several others, my 20L keg still I call "runt" but the rest just sit and wait...

[rad14701]

I don't give anything a name unless it breathes, eats, drinks, pisses, and shits...!!! What's the point...??? It won't come when you call it anyway... Well, some breathing creatures won't either...

[bitter]

Slow poke... its a 2" boka

B

[hellbilly007]

I call my keg based pot still Bessie. Like a milk cow, she gives me what I like to drink. Ironically, my dad named his Bessie.

[Yummyrum]

I don't give anything a name unless it breathes, eats, drinks, pisses, and shits...!!! What's the point...??? It won't come when you call it anyway... Well, some breathing creatures won't either...

That's my thinking right there . Thank you Rad .
Maybe I'm a weird little bastard but I hate Personification of Machines .....I couldn't stand Concertina or what ever it was that Windows stuck on my Computer ....I finally pissed it off and went back to 8.1 ....now I have to listen to my wife screaming at here phone wondering why Siri can't understand her ...WTF

I also find it annoying that things are given a sex . IE shes a beauty, or He's a beast . Its all" its" for me ...I know , I know , I'm a sad little man

[der wo]

I am thinking about nice female names for my fermenter buckets.

Slobbery Sally
Bubbling Barbara
Dripping Diana
Infected Ileen
Musty Marge

What do you think?

[kimbodious]

Polly pot still, partyer she really puts out
Vickie VM, tall mysterious dependable

[steelmb]

Mine is "The flavour enhancer".

[Wooday]

Every time I name something not living, it gets totaled.

[raketemensch]

Mine is The Drunkinator.

As in:

<Heinz Doofenshmirtz>Behold, THE DRUNKINATOR!!</Heinz Doofenshmirtz>

Definitely some mad scientist stuff going on in the basement.

[jb-texshine]

Mine is referred to as "the concentratinator 5000" for the same reason! Lol!
We got problems...

[cranky]

My big CM is called "The Neutralizer" because it is purpose built to only be used for neutral. The flute is "Muggles Too" because it was inspired by Mash Rookies "Muggles" but my wife calls it "Bubblicious" because it is very bubbly when it runs and I sit there and watch it "Like it is a pole dancer"

[n_plains_drifter]

Does your still have a name?

Thought this thread deserved to be resurrected after having researched pics of stills for column lyne arms earlier and seeing how many had names.

As of tonight, my still (simple pot atm) has been christened "Sentimental Lady". The opening lyrics (Fleetwood Mac) tell a story of a a relationship between copper, spirit and distiller...

"You are here and warm
But I could look away and you'd be gone
'Cause we live in a time
When meaning falls in splinters from our lives
And that's why I've traveled far
'Cause I come so together where you are
And all of the things that I said that I wanted
Come rushing by in my head when I'm with you
Fourteen joys and a will to be merry
And all of the things that we say are very sentimental..."

Best, Drifter

[Oldvine Zin]

My pot still is named lynzey the stripper
and the column is named Anna the flute player

stay safe
OVZ