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Updated distilling room
Posted: Wed May 25, 2022 10:51 am
by PeoplesPastor
Life got the best of me and I haven’t been able to do much but I’m jumping back in. I wanted to get my distilling room in a good place so I took on a construction project in my tool room to make it better for the hobby
Re: Updated distilling room
Posted: Wed May 25, 2022 11:12 am
by still_stirrin
Relegated to the basement, huh?
Well, it’s quieter and more temperate anyway. But, be advised: fermentation smells rise. So, SWMBO may say something if you’ve got a large ferment working off.
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p.s. - I like the painted floors. Neat and tidy. If you spill, just remember to mop it up.
Re: Updated distilling room
Posted: Thu May 26, 2022 5:43 am
by BlueSasquatch
Ideally one would have a fairly clean, climate controlled space to mash, ferment and distill. But I'm finding that to be unachievable it seems. I mash outside, Ferment in a closet and distill in the garage.
Re: Updated distilling room
Posted: Thu May 26, 2022 7:01 am
by Salt Must Flow
That's a nice, well illuminated room and easily cleaned. How do you manage your waste water? Do you send it to a drain line above? Do you recycle water, have a floor drain or a sink with drain? I've seen some basements that have a 'lift station' to pump waste water up to a drain in the mail level above.
How to dispose of waste is the first thing I think of when working in a basement. Distilling in my garage spoiled me. I just roll my boilers over to the back door and open the drain valve.
Re: Updated distilling room
Posted: Thu May 26, 2022 7:17 am
by BlueSasquatch
My house is old enough that I've got a basement drain that feeds into the city storm line. If the area floods, it reverse-flow floods my basement, so not great, but its nice to not have to deal with lift stations or sump pumps.
Re: Updated distilling room
Posted: Thu May 26, 2022 7:53 am
by Setsumi
I like your large pipe cutter... can it do 3"?
Re: Updated distilling room
Posted: Thu May 26, 2022 8:32 am
by PeoplesPastor
BlueSasquatch wrote: ↑Thu May 26, 2022 5:43 am
Ideally one would have a fairly clean, climate controlled space to mash, ferment and distill. But I'm finding that to be unachievable it seems. I mash outside, Ferment in a closet and distill in the garage.
I do all my mashing in this room as I have a large mashtun and a keggle. The large container on the one wall is a temperature controlled fermentation chamber I built
Re: Updated distilling room
Posted: Thu May 26, 2022 8:32 am
by PeoplesPastor
Salt Must Flow wrote: ↑Thu May 26, 2022 7:01 am
That's a nice, well illuminated room and easily cleaned. How do you manage your waste water? Do you send it to a drain line above? Do you recycle water, have a floor drain or a sink with drain? I've seen some basements that have a 'lift station' to pump waste water up to a drain in the mail level above.
How to dispose of waste is the first thing I think of when working in a basement. Distilling in my garage spoiled me. I just roll my boilers over to the back door and open the drain valve.
There is a drain right outside the door under my deck
Re: Updated distilling room
Posted: Thu May 26, 2022 8:34 am
by PeoplesPastor
Setsumi wrote: ↑Thu May 26, 2022 7:53 am
I like your large pipe cutter... can it do 3"?
Nope largest is 2.5. I use it to cut 2 inch
Re: Updated distilling room
Posted: Sun May 29, 2022 7:31 pm
by dunluce
Nice, really similar set up to what I had before me bought an acreage last fall. Bit of a medical issue, so just did my first boka run since last year today....hoping to get something set up soon.
I was also wondering about water....if I had stayed at that place, I would have run pex lines of water in there and set up a stainless double sink. Any plans to run water into there?
Re: Updated distilling room
Posted: Mon May 30, 2022 9:17 am
by Salt Must Flow
dunluce wrote: ↑Sun May 29, 2022 7:31 pm
Nice, really similar set up to what I had before me bought an acreage last fall. Bit of a medical issue, so just did my first boka run since last year today....hoping to get something set up soon.
I was also wondering about water....if I had stayed at that place, I would have run pex lines of water in there and set up a stainless double sink. Any plans to run water into there?
It looks like there's a water line right next to his grain mill.
Re: Updated distilling room
Posted: Tue May 31, 2022 6:19 pm
by dunluce
Salt Must Flow wrote: ↑Mon May 30, 2022 9:17 am
It looks like there's a water line right next to his grain mill.
Correct, totally missed that.
Re: Updated distilling room
Posted: Fri Jun 03, 2022 1:05 pm
by PeoplesPastor
dunluce wrote: ↑Tue May 31, 2022 6:19 pm
Salt Must Flow wrote: ↑Mon May 30, 2022 9:17 am
It looks like there's a water line right next to his grain mill.
Correct, totally missed that.
Yeah I got a potable water hose bib that put into the water line that goes to my hose hookup outside