Now I suddenly became interested in making my own recipe of Jagermeister and I thought, hell, I need my own booze for those attempts. So, I went to my warehouse and got my 60-L barrel distiller which I originally built for plastic waste pyrolysis, but never used for anything, so it was practically brand new. Now, I made the yeast-sugar brew with proper airlocks and activated carbon filtering in a 60-L barrel and I got decent results with the very-hated turbo yeast, and prepared a distillation setup. I collected a total of 4 bottles of liquid, first to with 200mL glass jars and two latter in 2L soda bottles. I never measured the first two's alcohol content, but the third one has 80% and fourth has 60% of alcohol by volume according to float-alcometer. Now, all these distillates had a strange smell, and when I opened the still flange I found out something had leaked from the barrel coating and stuff, so I will probably just discard the fluids. My reflux column is of 1.8m height and I packed it with leca aggregate, and it obviously was not a good choice. Well, It's already on it's way to scrapyard..
..Since I'm building a new one, all from 316 stainless. I got some 30kg worth of stuff from my scrapper recently. I thought to make it smaller initially, but since I have very limited time to do this at my current life situation, I'd make one-two bigger fractionations and go long with the results. I'll post more about this project into another topic in it's proper area when it gets going..
