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Hi, guys I’m Jaden aka DropB34r, long time looker first time poster, I’ve found a lot of everyone’s advice here invaluable and appreciate you guys soo much, I’m from sydney OZ, for the moment I’ve only done a few bird watchers 30lt washes through my air stills.
( I know they’re not ideal but I’m currently saving up for a nice digiboil with copper reflux column and also in the process of making one myself)
Just wanted to share some notes I took for anyone also running air stills
Running vevor cheap and nasty air still
Distilling notes

Stripping run
Time to fore shots : 22.30-40
30-45ml discard

Time to fill heads :9.30 300ml +13.42 120ml
300-400ml

Time to fill hearts :9.20-300ml /13.50 + 120ml
300-450ml

Time to tails : 13.28- 300ml stopped at 20%
300-600ml

Spirit run
Time to foreshots : 22.30
Time for heads to finish 19.02
Taste I like 22.05
Second distillation I kind of left out as everybody’s taste is different

Thanks for having me and hope this wasn’t too painful to read, I’m a bricklayer not an English major
Cheers guys

Welcome to the club DropB

Bradster68 wrote: ↑Sat Mar 25, 2023 4:06 am Welcome to the club DropB

Cheers mate had a test run making “brandy” tonight bought a cab Merlot cask wine ran thru and added a smidge of glycerin and about 2.5 ml of vanilla essence tasted okay although I’ve never had brandy before
Sort of in that experimental stage
Note to others though
Don’t drop 3 Carolina reapers into a bottle to make a HOT shine .. not worth it

DropB34R wrote: ↑Sat Mar 25, 2023 4:41 am

Bradster68 wrote: ↑Sat Mar 25, 2023 4:06 am Welcome to the club DropB

Cheers mate had a test run making “brandy” tonight bought a cab Merlot cask wine ran thru and added a smidge of glycerin and about 2.5 ml of vanilla essence tasted okay although I’ve never had brandy before
Sort of in that experimental stage
Note to others though
Don’t drop 3 Carolina reapers into a bottle to make a HOT shine .. not worth it

Lmao. Jeezuz no. I'm a hot food fanatic, but those reapers demand respect.
On the brandy note. I make very tasty brandy from kits. Careful with cuts and some lightly charred oak and YUMMY.
I also have some real fruit brandy iv made but I'm not touching for a year,so I can see the difference.

Welcome aboard man. Have fun and stay safe. Check out the Tried and True. The All Bran recipe is good. It'll make a fine drop.

Wildcats wrote: ↑Sat Mar 25, 2023 4:58 am Welcome aboard man. Have fun and stay safe. Check out the Tried and True. The All Bran recipe is good. It'll make a fine drop.

Yeah I’ve browsed a bunch of the recipes, they look unreal !! Keen to test a bunch out
My mates just run a cornflake and weet bix mash that tastes unreal !
Just need to upgrade my still now I’m committed to the hobby/lifestyle

Your username just dawned on me
Welcome

Archee72 wrote: ↑Sat Mar 25, 2023 4:17 pm Your username just dawned on me
Welcome

Thanks mate
Yeah it’s my user name I always use for everything pretty much, thanks for the welcome, I’ll be sure to check all forums before I ask all the questions that generally get asked 1000 times

hello and welcome!!

Archee72 wrote: ↑Sat Mar 25, 2023 4:17 pm Your username just dawned on me
Welcome

One could say….the bear has dropped

I’ll show myself out

Renhoekk wrote: ↑Sun Mar 26, 2023 2:14 pm

Archee72 wrote: ↑Sat Mar 25, 2023 4:17 pm Your username just dawned on me
Welcome

One could say….the bear has dropped

I’ll show myself out