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[Desert Fish]

I signed up yesterday and have been enjoying your forum. I have been in and out of here at various times and been playing with the alchemist's art for about 12 years. I am mostly a brewer, having brewed since 1980. I am National beer judge, love gadgets and cofounded a micro-brewery two decades ago.

I have a variety of still. I have a 15.5 gallon electric pot with two elements and a 10 gallon steam jacketed pot. I have one tower that is made of 4" stainless. It can be configured in a variety of ways. It has a 3 foot column section, a top cap section with an internal cooling/reflux coil. Depending on how I set it up either pot can run as a simple pot still or a goose-necke reflux still. I have a copper condenser that runs chilling water around the outside and through the center of the vapor/liquor outlet tube. I also have a copper goose-neck extension arm, so the condenser can be set-up as a up close pot still or a goose-neck.

I also have a meter tall, 3" copper tower stuffed with stainless scrubbers, set-up with a vapor management head. It is based on some stuff Mike Nixon sent me years ago.

I recently built a small 1.5 liter electric pot still utilizing an in-line water heater thing out of an old bottled water dispenser/cooler. It is wired with a rheostat/dimmer switch and is really great for those small re-distillation jobs we all run into.

I am mostly or at least currently into straight corn and rye whiskey production. Real straight forward, artisan kind of stuff. It is really enjoyable.

Anyway, I look forward to seeing what you all have to say and picking up some of your wisdom. Along the way I may have something worth while to add to the mix, but don't hold your breath!

[kiwistiller]

Welcome! glad you came out of the shadows. we'd love to see pics of your setup! that steam jacketed boiler sounds especially interesting...

[blanikdog]

Welcome Desert fish.

blanik

[rad14701]

Greetings, Desert Fish...

Sounds like you've been busy... Glad you've decided to join the community... We've got a great bunch of folks here...

Good luck...

[Desert Fish]

Thanks for the welcome. I will work on the pictures. I assume I will need to use some web image host. Lots of little details to work out on this new site. Should be fun. Are there ant reviews of commercial products on this site? I know of some great micro-distilled products and would like to hear of others.

[rad14701]

Pictures can be directly uploaded onto this site from within your posts.... This method is better than using an image hosting site because it reduces bandwidth, although you should still keep file sizes under ~100K, and keeps the site self-contained - which also means no broken image links...