Steve Broady wrote: ↑Mon Nov 14, 2022 1:59 pm
Hanging out with you folks can get expensive! I just placed a couple orders totally over $600, which is basically all of my hobby budget for quite some time,
I see the problem, Ya need a bigger budget.
You can't be a proper homedistiller until all the money is spent.
And your too poor to afford store bought liquor.
Reminds me of Greggns’ signature-
“I drank fifty pounds of feed-store corn
‘till my clothes were ratty and torn”
Freedom had been hunted round the globe; reason was considered as rebellion; and the slavery of fear had made men afraid to think. But such is the irresistible nature of truth, that all it asks, and all it wants, is the liberty of appearing.
-Thomas Paine
Ran out if Gin this week … in-fact no neutral left either . The 200l. of Shadyshine was taking way too long to ferment . So had to buy a bottle .
Ouch …. 1litre bottle of Gordons. $65 AUD …..that hurt .
Ten years in the hobby, I’m pretty well set up and it only costs me gas and ingredient's .
But yeah , I remember starting out . Boy , it all started to add up . Just when I thought I had it all sorted , I’d get the urge to try something new and …… more spending .
All I need to spend more on these days is organising my time better .
Yummyrum wrote: ↑Sat Nov 26, 2022 3:04 am I’d get the urge to try something new and …… more spending .
All I need to spend more on these days is organising my time better .
Ain't that the truth! My wife is about finally over my distilling spending, and right when I'm trying to obtain a screw press...
Darn those things are pricey
RockinRockies wrote: ↑Sat Nov 26, 2022 6:30 am
Ain't that the truth! My wife is about finally over my distilling spending, and right when I'm trying to obtain a screw press...
Darn those things are pricey
Pricey yes, but easily built.
Us an automotive screw jack.
RockinRockies wrote: ↑Sat Nov 26, 2022 6:30 am
Ain't that the truth! My wife is about finally over my distilling spending, and right when I'm trying to obtain a screw press...
Darn those things are pricey
Pricey yes, but easily built.
Us an automotive screw jack.
Pardon, I should have clarified that I want a dewatering screw press
NorthWoodsAb wrote: ↑Sat Nov 26, 2022 7:30 pm
I'd rather have an affordable centrifuge to "dewater" grains.
We were trying to design one with a washing machine motor but it looked too dangerous and I didn't think that that would have the same abilities to extract the liquid like the screw presses that I'm investigating. I found some oil presses from Alibaba for about 1700 but I don't know what that would look like if it would do the same job