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Hi everyone.

Quite interested in making my own spirits. Quite new to this. SO I am glad to have found this forum.
I am planning to buy a small 8L Pot Still, quite cheap but should do the trick. Would love to make my own Rum or Whiskey.

Plan just to read up at this stage and over the next month or so start my first batch.

Welcome to HD!
Plenty of reading, research, and learning to do ..I'd start with the Parent Site ..
And at least a 5gal pot ..Be Patient ..Take your time ..
Good Luck.

Welcome to the forum.

I suggest you do some reading before you spend money on that still. It would be good for making gins and doing experimental runs, but for whiskey & rum, the meager output is likely to make hard work of making enough to age.

Hi there,

Welcome to the site.
I am new to this also, and like you from New Zealand.
What part of the NZ are you in, I'm in Dunedin.

Stretch

Welcome. Good to see more and more kiwis signing up. Getting to be quite a few of us. What part of NZ are you from?

Gidday new Kiwis,

At the rate we are going we will soon be the dominant species of the HD boards

And everyone thought we were just a quaint little island at the bottom of the world

Quaint little three islands

Welcome mate, plus one on the bigger pot. Good luck

At this rate we'll have to rename hd---Australia

Yea. Bigger pot is good. Check scrap yards around you. Could be a lot cheaper then buying new.

it's great to read about the great bright bunch of hobbyists from NZ enjoying their craft!
hopefully the rest of the world will soon realize that legal hobby stillin' won't corrupt your economy and lead to pirate rule from bawdy houses with bootlegger enforcement...right guys??
anyway...good to have you, enjoy your time here!

Thanks for the replies everyone!
I'm a JAFFA thats what the rest of New Zealand calls Aucklanders LOL.

Don't have too much room and thought an 8L Pot Still would be good enough to start. Was also looking into an Air Still and from what I have read they seem to do the job quite well. Lots to learn so haven't yet made up my mind yet and do appreciate the comments.

I know some people like air stills, I know everyone I have encountered with a real still does not like air stills. The only people that like air stills are people who have only had an air still and have never tasted a drop from a real still

Welcome aboard stennz...take your time to find your way around this place...use the HD Google at the top there to find answers to your questions you may have ...look at active topics...check out tried and true recipes...the options are endless!.. Enjoy.

Hello fellow Kiwis. Just wondering, have any of you guys found a cheap source of 2" copper pipe in NZ? Other countries seem to have an abundance of it quite cheap, but when I tried to find it from scrap yards, plumbers, air con dudes etc I could only find it new from plumbing suppliers for about $600 a length new! I have decided to go stainless anyhow, just curious.

I've had good luck at scrap yards. I got a keg and 1.5m of 2in copper pipe for $80. In Hamilton. Guy had a lot more too.

Two out of three Tauranga scrappies had some last time I looked.

No kegs though, I have run out of them as well!

Took me a few months to find one. I'm gona have another look around after New Years and Xmas. Should be a few around then.

Hi all .....
This site is awwsume!!!!
Btw i am the guy that Andrew is building a still for !
Good to meet u all!

DrolnomeD001 wrote:Hi all .....
This site is awwsume!!!!
Btw i am the guy that Andrew is building a still for !
Good to meet u all!

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