Home Distiller

Hello. I have been interested in distillation for a long time and I've been lurking around on this site for a few years, off and on.
I've run out of excuses, and want to give it a shot (no pun intended.) I've gotten to the point where the SO is telling me, 'just buy a still already!' =)
I enjoy all styles of spirits... My intention is to ferment and distill just about anything; especially stuff I can source locally. I'm less concerned with quantity and more so with interesting. I'm looking to explore and experiment.
I am hovering over the trigger on a 4" flute still with a standard boiler... Trying to decide on the size. However, the long term goal is a bain marie.
I live in beer land, of which I am also a fan and brewer, in the PNW.
Looking forward to sticking around.
Have a great day!

Nice introduction, welcome to the forum!

Welcome. Looking forward to see what you make.

Welcome to HD.
Looking forward to hear your experience of Bain Marie.

Thank you for the warm welcome!

If I was starting from scratch I would definitely spend money on a bigger boiler with a nice triclamp lid, probably from milehi or brewhaus, buy the stainless tri clamp stuff for the column separately and build my own shotgun condenser(s).

I got an 8 gallon dual purpose package from mile hi and it's a great still, very happy with quality etc... but I'm definitely wishing I had a bigger boiler.

Welcome to the forum!

tombombadil wrote: ↑Sun Oct 18, 2020 9:39 am If I was starting from scratch I would definitely spend money on a bigger boiler with a nice triclamp lid, probably from milehi or brewhaus, buy the stainless tri clamp stuff for the column separately and build my own shotgun condenser(s).

I got an 8 gallon dual purpose package from mile hi and it's a great still, very happy with quality etc... but I'm definitely wishing I had a bigger boiler.

Welcome to the forum!

Thank you for your input.. I've read many posts wishing they'd started off with bigger boilers. With that in mind, I am trying to decide between a 15 and 25 gallon can, but I'll save that dilemma for the equipment section. =)