Home Distiller

Hello,

I am new to distilling and never distilled anything yet.

I have some questions, first, about building a low cost home made distillery.

I thought about using a stainless still pot that I got, drilling a little hole and sticking in the hole a copper tube. the sealing will be using some dough, so when it gets hot - it will block totally any outgoing steams.
Cooling will be just with some ice cold water that the tube will go through.

Questions:
1. Which kind of copper tube can I use? Is it ok to use the cheap kind been sold everywhere and used for home gas delivery?

2. I thought about taking a ready beer (Dark lager beer - Goldstar brand 4.9% alcohol) and distill it - will I get a 40% alcohol drink out of it? will it be anything near or like whiskey? should I be worried about Methanol at all? since I am distilling a ready to drink beer.
also, I thought about aging it for a about a month with some oak tree chips - any opinions?

My goal is to make the nearest thing to whiskey I can make out of beer in 1 month.




Thanks for any answer!!

Welcome aboard.

You can use any copper sold at your home improvement store. Either ridgid or tubing.

If you are going to use beer, it needs to be unhopped. It's a whole lot cheaper to make a sugar wash.

Toast or char your oak before adding your distillate and let it sit a week or so. It will make a nice bourbon.

No offense there guy but time to do some reading, these are general and frequently asked questions.

Don't jump in without reading or you're going to regret it.

You have along way to go .Yes you can distill beer but
taste like sh*** do a lot of reading- if you use a pot and tubing
you would have a pot still sugar wash makes vodka whisky
takes time several months to make.

read up on the uncle jesse sour mash. it will give you a lot of pointers on making moonshine. aged on oak it will be a good drink. do some more reading. the reason you dont want to use beer is the hops will leave a nasty taste in your still that will be hard to get rid of. as far as your still you have a good idea for a potstill. maybe a little more research on the connection to the lid and you may be ready to go.