Trying to get into distillin
Posted: Fri Jun 18, 2010 8:52 am
I was bored with all of my liquor a few days ago and decided I wanted to make something that had personality. Cheap liquor tastes cheap and premium liquor doesn't taste like liquor; so inspired by rums early name of 'Killdevil' I decided I wanted to make some.
I've got ~2lbs of organic blackstrap molasses fermenting in 2 gallons of water with some vegemite thrown in (I read that the b vitamins are helpful and decided what the hell).
I've wasted about 10 feet of 1/2" OD copper line by not having a clue how to bend it, and then wasted about 2 feet of another set of 10' before deciding to cut my losses (I was going for a spiral) and now have about 28" of copper line residing inside a 2" PVC pipe. I'm considering getting another length of PVC pipe and going for ~4 feet, but I'm not sure if thats overkill, so I'm holding off on sealing it since I have enough copper pipe to make it work.
I've not purchased a boiler yet... (largely because I drive a VW, and it broke right as I was going to get the starting supplies) but don't really want to get a keg, I think I'd rather start with a smaller still. But I'm not really sure what is smaller, but still sufficiently large (and not expensive).
And my name is Evan. I hope to have some questions in the next few days, but not too many, because that would mean something didn't work. But I'll see I suppose.
I've got ~2lbs of organic blackstrap molasses fermenting in 2 gallons of water with some vegemite thrown in (I read that the b vitamins are helpful and decided what the hell).
I've wasted about 10 feet of 1/2" OD copper line by not having a clue how to bend it, and then wasted about 2 feet of another set of 10' before deciding to cut my losses (I was going for a spiral) and now have about 28" of copper line residing inside a 2" PVC pipe. I'm considering getting another length of PVC pipe and going for ~4 feet, but I'm not sure if thats overkill, so I'm holding off on sealing it since I have enough copper pipe to make it work.
I've not purchased a boiler yet... (largely because I drive a VW, and it broke right as I was going to get the starting supplies) but don't really want to get a keg, I think I'd rather start with a smaller still. But I'm not really sure what is smaller, but still sufficiently large (and not expensive).
And my name is Evan. I hope to have some questions in the next few days, but not too many, because that would mean something didn't work. But I'll see I suppose.