Hi all, been away for a bit with work and family commitments

[decoy]

Hi Guys
Good to see many familiar names still around.
I have Been tied down with work and family commitments, but I have been feeling the bug to tinker and get back into home brewing again.
Anyway hope to contribute where I can..
now time to do more catching up on where and what everyone is up to..

cheers

[fizzix]

Welcome back, longtimer!

[just sayin]

Good to know you are still kicking, Decoy! Always nice to see "Old Timers" there.

[Yummyrum]

Welcome back ... you were one if my old hero’s

[acfixer69]

Welcome back Decoy I too was a fan of your posts in my starting days. Hope you catch the bug again and see you around.

[decoy]

cheers guys..
Now lets see if we can build a shiny new over complicated mouse trap

[LWTCS]

Holy cow!!!
Welcome back.
Hope all is well.

[Chauncey]

hey good to see you, i was thinking of building something with small plates like yours and i was wishing you were around to answer some questions!

welcome back

[Swedish Pride]

Welcome back ... you were one if my old hero’s

I have to agree with yummy, you're one of the trailblazers for sure decoy.
you still run your plater you built some 10 years ago?

[decoy]

Thanks for the warm welcome back..

First up, with my work commitments there was very little time to do any runs..
The few I did where only pot runs using a corn/malted barley mash.
I started a plum mash, to make Serbian Sljivovica but I got cought up at a regional job and by the time i got back ended up with 400L of Plum cider Vinegar


The column still i made was a prototype, it was made because I was told it is impossible to make a 2" plate column, it will never work etc..
I got it to work for 2 runs until a friend of mine broke the glass tube, I still have the plates etc..
RESULT: I found there is no need to make a plate column when you mostly use grain, pot stills are a proven simpler method.

My design focus has been energy and water saving.

However I have restarted on a copper pot still project I shelved a while back.


And just the other day driving down the road, I picked up what I believe is a Quartz tube 100mm Dia and 1200 long, it also had a gas control box containing pizzo igniter, pilot light and emergency gas shut off.
It was in one of those volcano space heaters.


I will start a new thread for this over the next week.

[decoy]

hey good to see you, i was thinking of building something with small plates like yours and i was wishing you were around to answer some questions!

welcome back

Start a thread or pm me and ask I will be happy to help if I can.