Under the carport

[Yummyrum]

This is where I do all my distilling . I’m on gas so I get ventilation .Close to my water tank . Easy to empty my fermeters and boiler . It’s a pig stye though .

Anyway , today I’m stripping a Shadys . Normally I use the Liebig ,today I got out the Shotty for a change .

[Sporacle]

Nice set up Yummy, is that an insulated lyne arm and if so does it serve much other purpose aside from getting the outlet away from the burner?

[Yummyrum]

Nice set up Yummy, is that an insulated lyne arm and if so does it serve much other purpose aside from getting the outlet away from the burner?

Thanks Sporacle ,

Yes primary purpose is keep the collection end from the flames

Not sure how much help the insulation does as far as stripping is concerned , but it keeps the heat in for sure .
I should probably insulate the rest , but I’m lazy and it works .

[Setsumi]

Well here I sit, pondering something smart to say on your wind management. And then the bloody mushtun overflow during recirculation. And in my haste I lost a slipon sandle?...... Yummy I find your wind management an excellent example of ingenious engenering.

[Saltbush Bill]

You've been living here in Au to long Yummy ......your starting to use Corrugated Iron way to creatively

[NormandieStill]

You've been living here in Au to long Yummy ......your starting to use Corrugated Iron way to creatively

I was just about to comment that after watching Grand Designs Australia I could place the photo simply by the amount of corrugated iron!

[Yummyrum]

Ingenious engineering , Hee hee , well thankyou Setsumi . It’s another example of things that I should sort out properly one day .

Anyway , I hope you grabbed hold of your Python in time and didn’t loose too much good stuff

[Yummyrum]

You've been living here in Au to long Yummy ......your starting to use Corrugated Iron way to creatively

I was just about to comment that after watching Grand Designs Australia I could place the photo simply by the amount of corrugated iron!

Fair crack of the whip fellas , I was just starting to feel real good about my engineering skills and you blokes are just take’n the piss

[captainshooch]

I don't care if you distill in the porch, on the porch or under the damn porch, you alway have a way to provide sound advise and answers true to real life experience.

Who cares if your porch is a freaking mess! BTW clean up your porch dude..ROFLMAO.....

[Yummyrum]

Who cares if your porch is a freaking mess! BTW clean up your porch dude..ROFLMAO.....

Eye eye Captain .

VM run today . Might give me something to do .

[juana_b]

If it takes as much time to file something as it does to find it, it's not worth spending the time to file it.
Chaos is a relative term.

[Setsumi]

Who cares if your porch is a freaking mess! BTW clean up your porch dude..ROFLMAO.....

Eye eye Captain .

VM run today . Might give me something to do .

Yummy, I bet you a 100 ZAR if you through one thing away.... even if you did not use it in 30 years, you will need to buy it in a weeks time.

[Twisted Brick]

That pic right there is priceless, Yummy. A testament to the exploits of a busy man. One should be so lucky to have as many pursuits as you have to fill out one's life.

[OtisT]

You have inspired me again Yummy. This time, it’s in the form of both engineering and cleaning up. I’m gonna make that damn shelve I’ve been needing, to help organize my barrels and jars. Let the games begin. Otis

[shadylane]

Who cares if your porch is a freaking mess! BTW clean up your porch dude..ROFLMAO.....

I can tell by looking at the ceiling there's been distilling going on.

[OtisT]

You have inspired me again Yummy. This time, it’s in the form of both engineering and cleaning up. I’m gonna make that damn shelve I’ve been needing, to help organize my barrels and jars. Let the games begin. Otis

All done now with the new shelves that sit on the counter. Getting rid of at least three full cases of jar experiments and older booze that is not up to my current standards helped make space. Now I can get back to work filling some of the empty barrels. .

Good luck with your car port Yummy. Otis

[juana_b]

Darn Otis. Darkroom huh. That picture is worth nearly a decade of work.

[HDNB]

You have inspired me again Yummy. This time, it’s in the form of both engineering and cleaning up. I’m gonna make that damn shelve I’ve been needing, to help organize my barrels and jars. Let the games begin. Otis

All done now with the new shelves that sit on the counter. Getting rid of at least three full cases of jar experiments and older booze that is not up to my current standards helped make space. Now I can get back to work filling some of the empty barrels. .

Good luck with your car port Yummy. Otis

4 hours and 4 minutes....damn you got some skills lad. It would take me a month of sundays just to get organized to cut the first board.

[HDNB]

what's with the vibra shank plow there yummy? you gonna start growing your own barley?

[Yummyrum]

Dayam Otis ,thats some nice place you have there . LOL
No way I’m showing you my storage area after that .

[Yummyrum]

what's with the vibra shank plow there yummy? you gonna start growing your own barley?

We’ve got 5 Acres . Bought a tractor a couple of years ago and starting to rip up some of the paddock into garden rows with an old chisel plough but just built this one to help . Won’t planting crops like barley . But you have me thinking .

[Yummyrum]

I can tell by looking at the ceiling there's been distilling going on.

Interesting Shady .
Is it the mould ? We live in a very humid place and mould is a nightmere here , but is distilling a contributiong factor

[Deplorable]

All done now with the new shelves that sit on the counter. Getting rid of at least three full cases of jar experiments and older booze that is not up to my current standards helped make space. Now I can get back to work filling some of the empty barrels. .

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Good luck with your car port Yummy. Otis

Jebuz Otis. Thats a fine collection. I'm with envy!

[shadylane]

Is it the mould ? We live in a very humid place and mould is a nightmere here , but is distilling a contributiong factor

I've seen a lot of black mold around moonshine still sites.
Don't know if commercial distillers have the problem or not.

[Yummyrum]

Is it the mould ? We live in a very humid place and mould is a nightmere here , but is distilling a contributiong factor

I've seen a lot of black mold around moonshine still sites.
Don't know if commercial distillers have the problem or not.

Interesting Shady , I’ve always had a suspicion it may have been a thing . My thinking it was from the fermentations …. A yeasty thing maybe


The shed is full off it . Thats where I used to ferment .

[BlueSasquatch]

I used to run outside in the back yard, in the middle of town, with blankets over fences and getting paranoid for the whole day. Then I moved things into the garage, and worry a good deal less. THEN my folks moved closer to me and the grand kids, landed on the other side of the state-line in Missouri, where its legal on a state level, also they're out in the country. So now I run outdoors again. Sure is nice when the weather is nice.

When its cold, the propane heat is pretty nice, the cooling water in my flake stand stays colder longer, but the process takes a bit longer.
When its hot, the propane heat isn't nice, the cooling water doesn't stay as cold as long, but the process takes a bit faster.

[Bushman]

I built an outbuilding with two bays one with a 12’ high garage door. The doors face my house not the road so I do my distilling just inside the 12’ door and if it’s windy I park my truck sideways to the garage door and lower the door slightly so I don’t have a wind problem yet still have good ventilation. My main still is electric but my other smaller stills for gin and essential oils runs off propane.

[Ben]

Is it the mould ? We live in a very humid place and mould is a nightmere here , but is distilling a contributiong factor

I've seen a lot of black mold around moonshine still sites.
Don't know if commercial distillers have the problem or not.

Yes. Baudoinia compniacensis, AKA distillery mold. It's a fungus unique to bakeries and distilleries, you find it in any big barrel house or near the stills themselves.

[shadylane]

I guess that proves Yummyrum is bonified homedistiller.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baudoinia_compniacensis

[Yummyrum]

Bugger me ,learning something new everyday here.