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  • some great inforamtion here thanks

  • And furthermore while the a/c condenser may very well dissipate a small amount of heat from the waste water it has absolutely nothing to do with the reflux or condensing of the still. Not trying to be an a hole here but throw that mess in your closest trash can and put ice in your water bucket. No need to thank me, experience tells me your condenser in the still will be more effective and your operation will take up less space and consume less electricity

  • Your using a box fan to blow room temp air across a a/c condenser to cool water heated in the still? Ok pimpin, reality says cold water is best for optimum performance, your cooling your water to room temp at best and pumping it to your condenser so explain to me why simply putting ice in your water barrel isnt gonna maximize your yield and eliminate that fan and condenser

  • The only thing about the a/c condenser is it looks cool, no faster than the water is being used it would have time to cool once it's returned to the bucket

  • @Allenmakestherules

    sorry but no, the water comes out the head at 55-58 degrees C, so therefore it is very much needed. the barrel is only 110 liters and would heat very quickly as the pumps are putting out 15 liters per minute. without the a/c radiator there would be no condensing and no reflux action.

  • Oh i get it dude theres a kettle element in the drum i looked on the other vid. I think i will build one like this thanks

  • Dude thats a real cool set up you have there only thing i dont understand is what heat are you using because you have a plastic container maybee i missed somthing. I like the car radiator idea too that way you dont need a continues water supply. What sort of flavourings are you using too? I was gonna get an air still but after going on a distill forum it kind of put me off and i recon i could build me own for half the price. Cracking vid dude Thanks.

  • Can this work as a continuous still for ethanol? have alot of fruit waste from my trees and wanna take advantage of the waste. do you have a parts list with a write up by chance?

  • Good video , now i know you should throw away the first shot glass but what is the right temp to catch the alcohol to make spirits(vodka).Can you pls tel me as not sure to what temp you get meth and what temp you get the ethanol and what temp to catch the good stuff,pls help me out as first time stiller,thanks mate

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  • Wow! Makes my store bought stuff look clumsy and frustrating. I'd love a reflux still, but only using a pot still now.

  • What do I need if I want 100% ethanol? I'm gonna drive on it not drink it

  • @electro5 You cant get 100% even in the industry its 94-96%

  • not bad but i like to use a copper set up instead of plastic because the plastic gives the wiskey a funny taste and plus im old school lol nice home set up . a plus lol cheers

  • Very interesting setup. I can't figure out your heat source for the pot. It looks like PP but that can't be because of the temp requirement. Would you share some of the details about what you made the condenser out of? Thanks.

  • You clearly have a large void between your ears :D

  • JEEZ LOUISE! AT LEAST HAVE THE GOD DANMED DECANCY TO USE A NEW UNUSED RADIATOR!

  • @JUDALATION

    The alcohol doesn't go through the radiator!

  • Who else heard the baby crying in the backround?

  • The cooling system looks safe to me. Although you are using a car radiator, it doesn't look like it makes contact with the spirits so that's OK. But what looks frightening to me is that you are using a plastic still, please do yourself a favour and get yourself a copper or at least a stainless steel pot and tower. I can guarantee that the finished product tastes much better when you use a still made out of one of those metals.

  • how are you heating it?

    

  • cowboybob3000 you're thinking of 4score or jake, which is moonshine made through a radiator and its not ready yet so when drank it causes blindness and even death.

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  • Hope you're smart enough to throw away the first 250mL-500mL or so. Methanol evaporates at a lower temperature (that means it's the first liquid to come out of the condenser) than ethanol, so if you don't toss the very first bit of distillate, you stand a good chance of introducing poisonous methanol into the whole batch. Methanol can make you go blind, can kill you, all sorts of bad things can happen if you consume even a small amount of methanol, so please be careful!

  • @steidl001 ... five hundred milis?......

  • @PyroChemicals2 ...In truth, the initial amount to throw away depends on the total amount of mash, the strength of the mash, the temperature of the still, etc. Hard to come down to an exact number. The old 'shiners threw away the "heads" and "tails" of the condensate. Say, if you have about 5-10 gallons to distill, toss the first pint and the last pint...or so.

  • @steidl001 I see.

  • @PyroChemicals2 i've been using and making my own moonshine for 5 years and i discard what ever comes out of the still before 78.4 degrees C as this is the boiling point of the alcohol that is drinkable thats why you use a thermomitor so you know the temp i usualy turn the still off at around 93 degrees C the alcohol strenth is very low by this time and i'm not blind or dead let most people dont know and have not tried once your making your own shop brought alcohol is poor quality

  • @steidl001 Methanol tastes better than ethanol. It's sweeter and burns less. It will, however, produce horrible hangovers. The good thing is the risk of blindness is not cumulative, so if you drink a little now and then you're ok. The small amount of methanol you'd ingest from a crudely distilled batch of moonshine could increase your risk of a hangover, but will not make you go blind. If you drank several ounces of straight methanol then you stand a chance at going blind.

  • @uncopyrighted

    Epic facepalm.

    Do it right, you won't have to worry about it at all, letting some through because it's "sweeter" is just stupid.

  • @uncopyrighted To start off Methanol is poisonous to drink, Do not drink it. Second if you still is safe i.e no lead or radiator condenser etc & your mash is safe (Grain, Sugar, Yeast, and potable water), No how poorly you distilled your mash it will not contain Methanol or anything else that can harm except a hangover. The foreshots & tails will contain Fusel oils these smell bad and taste bad and if not removed will give you a hangover.  The foreshots & tails are pitched for alcohol purity.

  • Hay mate , love the cooling system

  • that doesnt look safe

    lmao

  • can you put this in a generator to run your house with

  • Nice still Sir I have been using a small S/Steel unit for several years and am going to make a large one very soon How does the plastic handle heat over the long time,and what kind of element would you suggest.

     Cheers Chris...............

  • Mate, you sure have attracted the Dribble crowd.

    I do have a question, and it relates to boiling the wash in a plastic bucket without destroying it. ?? Can you discuss this a bit? Ditto mangvil's post. :^)

    cheers. 

  • what are you using as a heating element? how is your still put together I get the cooling system freaking genius, but can you go deeper into detail about the rest of the working parts (and how to find them) of the still? really dig your setup with and how everything is white lab status lol I picture you in a lab coat finding the aids or something while you enjoy you home made vodka lol

  • where did you get those bottles from! they look awesome!

  • How do one make High quality whisky? Neutral ofc so it can be flavoured laiter

  • @cowboybob3000

    Please watch the "how my cooling system works" video.

    it's all very simple and non harmful. simply a money saving system.

  • @scottsbutcher im sorry, i hope i didnt alarm anyone! i looked into it anyway and had my memory jogged. its only used radiators. sorry for the post! nice setup!

  • @scottsbutcher loving the homemade Duff on the second shelf , loads of idea's for my set up to cheers man !

  • @cowboybob3000 That is only if you are cooling the liquid you intend to drink through the radiator. Cooling the water around the condenser is just fine.

  • @cowboybob3000 This is a common myth, that monnshine causes blindness. This myth is propagated by tax (excise) collecting people to scary potential home distillers. In the fermentation process it is impossible to get methanol in any significant quantities (fruit mash contains traces of it), but it comes with the only known and working antidotum: ethanol. So, stop worrying and love the moonshine!

  • @pokrec l was confused at first about what he was pumping through the radiator. thats all. i currently have all the stuff to build a charles 802 i just need to make space in my shop. there are dangers if you run what you drink through a used radiator. i think its crazy that for drinking water, lead soldier was allowed. i'll be using silver soldier for mine.

  • @cowboybob3000 i'd use a brand new radiator, brand doesn't matter. 

  • @NielsMF Do not take a chance with a using a radiator they generally contain lead solder of something else that is not food grade that can be broken down by being exposed to alcohol. The general principal is it it's not copper stainless steel or glass than it does not belong in a still.

  • @cowboybob3000 Not blindness... blindness is caused by boiling heavy organic materials like wood bark which release methanol when boiled. This can be avoided by filtering the mash. But yes, it is dangerous to cool the distillate using a car radiator because car radiators often use lead, tin, and silver based solder in the joints, which can seep heavy metals into the alcohol and cause metal poisoning, which causes insanity.

  • @uncopyrighted I could not imagine any reason to but wood bark in with the mash / wash. doing so creates or increase the chances to create Methanol and who wants to distill Methanol or even take the chance of doing so. The only place that you would want any contact with wood is in aging & unless you are going to put it up for a quite a while you better off with the extracts. Side note even if the radiator did not contain lead but had coolant in it you have a good chance to wreck you Kidneys

  • @cowboybob3000 its cooloing the waer it nevercomes in contact with the still

  • @cowboybob3000 the radiator cools the water used for cooling the alchole the 2 never touch

  • @cowboybob3000 JESUS FUCKING CHRIST! I GET IT, THE ALCOHOL NEVER TOUCHES THE RADIATOR! I KNOW! I GET A MESSAGE ABOUT THIS EVERY FUCKING WEEK!

  • What heat source are you using?

  • i tried making the mash but after about a week now it smells kinda wierd almost a nail polish remover smell i used corn and baking yeast is his how its supposed to smell?

  • @stumpyz9

    It should be good. But you might want to remove the first shots (50-100 ml) when you start destilling. The first shots contains small amounts of methanol and acetone. That stuff gives you a really bad hangover. I would advise you to use sugar and some yeast nutriotion instead, because it makes less bad stuff when fermenting. You could also try adding some chopped raw potatoes, as the potatoes contains nutritions, and they will also absorb some of the methanol.

  • To find russians homebrew alcohol makers look for самогонный аппарат

    It`s very funny.

  • How much sugar is used per liter? How much yeast per liter? And how much electricity? What would it cost compared to the current gas prices? Maybe it is better to buy the fuel? Perhaps all those HHO experiments flooding Youtube are about as effective?

  • @Riskteven

    Not making fuel, making homebrew vodka here.

  • @scottsbutcher looks like you have more than vodka ;)

  • one thing i must say is that a plastic fermenter if it is you should change that to ss or copper could end up poisoning ya if you go much higher than 45% like i use a 50L beer keg and copper and ss fittings the only plastic is the cooling stuff that way im fully safe from any of the nasties that plastic have also i like your cooling set-up im so whacking one of them 2getther

  • @Riskteven If you consider making fuel it doesn't pay. If you want to make vodka or brandy - it pays a lot, even when costs of 1 litre of ethanol in a professional distillery is 5 times lower than made at home. Legal alcohol has a HUGE excise on it, co even if you used electricity to heat the boiler with mash - it is still economically considerable.

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  • @pokrec But can this be used to make sntiseptics cheaper than on the pharmacy? It costs 60 euros for 500 ml, if they even have it.

  • @Riskteven: Just calculate: from 1 kg of sugar we can obtain about 500 ml 96% ethanol (dpends on the moonshiner's skills). Add to this the cost of energy and your work and it closes in the frame of 7-10 euro per 1 liter of almost pure ethanol. Dissolve it in pure water to the concentration of 70% of alcohol and you have your own aniseptic.

  • @pokrec Good. Also because the EU does not like the selling of Tea tree oil (And I agree, it is too toxic, but I am sure 70% ethanol could be worse if swallowed by mistake while brusking bleeding tooth gums)

  • Did u have to clen out the radiator and if so how?

  • @prentice1610

    The radiator was probably clean before he started using it. And the cooling water doesent make any contact with the product anyway.

  • This was a smart trick (radiator) :D

  • could you put the ethanol into a petrol car or diesel?

  • So much for the "NO PLASTIC" rules in distilling. Sure hope there isn't too much chemical leaching from all that plastic if anyone plans to drink it.

  • Nice still set-up are you using an electric element in the still. Does the element not get all manked up and burn out. I am thinking of making myself my own still that why i ask. Great vid btw good stuff

  • Nice job. Have you considered using a thermostat to cycle the still?

  • Why don't you have the water pump up through the radiator to the condensor? The fan would probably make it colder than it would be coming just from the barrel. Get a bigger fan and you'd need a ten gallon container at best for all the water you'd need- five or less if you switch to a better coolant.

  • @MaskedWisdom

    Works just awesome like it is. cools the whole length of the process.

  • how do you know when it's done? do you just cook untill it's all evaporated?

  • hey what are you using to heat it up?

  • theres your sunday shop u drunkies..

  • I lold at the fan :DDD genious

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  • when this is distilled does it have a taste? ive heard that moonshine (distilled alcohol) tastes like dough. i wish to make it but not if it tastes like dough. also can i use any yeast? or does it HAVE to be distilling yeast? im using fleischmans should i buy the "turbo yeast?

  • @panzuman

    this has no taste but that of alcohol. can use activated baking yeast but it will produce a taste and smell. I use only high % alcohol yeast with nutrients to feed the yeasts. Turbo yeast is very reliable and fast too. I use alcotec 48 with 8kg sugar, 5 days gives 5.5lt @ 95% on my express still. Did 2 runs of the still yesterday :-D

  • @scottsbutcher im using bakers yeast right now but i plan to put it through a carbon filter to get rid of taste but the alcotec does not produce a taste? i wish to buy some how long oes it take to ferment?

  • @panzuman

    All alcohol should be carbon treated to help remove impurities and unwanted odours. The alcotec does have a slight smell to it but this is cleaned up by the two stage carbon ceramic filter system I use. It comes out virtually odourless and does not even really smell of alcohol, but it is very good quality and gives no hangover. Fermentation is:

    Alcotec 48 turbo + 8 Kg sugar Make up to 25Lt wash = 5 days Gives a very good results, around 5.5Lt @ 95%ABV. This makes around 14 Lt

  • hi i like you setup but i could not see how you are heating it

  • @bryson502 - He shows the two coffee maker chrome things on top of this gray shelving.

  • hi

    i am new i didnot under stand how you are making

    what is raw material

    can you explain

  • Hi I am new on the distillation world... It is possible to make BIO-ETHANOL whit this??

  • @justino1970 - The biogas crowd uses the sun, works slow, but heating to 180 really speeds it up.

  • how is it being heated

  • hoe is it being heated

    

  • hi, I have a question for ya, you said that that the abv is at 85% is there anyway to tone the % down at all so that you make a palatable beverage? i.e at around 40%? to use at parties and stuff as I imagen at 85% you cant drink masses of it without trip to hospital. and also how do you flavour your brew? do you use extracts to give it a specific taste

  • @oddballspookyguy

    Hi there, my new still is producing 95% ABV, but at this strength it cannot be consumed or treated. So I cut it back to 40% by adding cold water, then I filter it through my ceramic carbon filtering system to make it good to drink. this process also treats the tap water that has been used to dilute the alcohol. For flavour I normally use oak wood chips and such to soak the alcohol on. And sometimes I use the flavour kits from the brew shop for making malibu and things. :-)

  • Great vid man, I will soon be distilling a good red wine (merlot), it should be ok,.. I did that once or twice when I was in Oz. I`m building a reflux column still now,... can't wait to get that beautiful rocket fuel again!,.. and by the way it does not need any additional flavoring. You ought to try it ... Cheers!!

  • hi again scott, i managed to get a pump etc. how do you control flow rate? (to keep the right temperature)

  • I have a question. What if one were to recycle the waste water through a radiator, and back into the still? Cooling the hot water and reusing, in summary. Would this work? Thanks.

  • @linkchrono1955

    Um.... That's what is going on here, the 2 pumps send it back up through the still. :-/

  • @scottsbutcher I apologize, I hadn't watched fully through before posting that comment, and felt rather silly after finishing. Thanks for answering though.

  • You should never use plastic for your still. I know that it is store bought but plastic leeches chemicals out of it when you expose it to high alcohol contents. But whatever, your body not mine. Besides, those duplast stills are starting to disappear, think about it.

  • genuis set up

  • What do you use to Pack your column?

  • @jpnmatoso

    hi there, I used at intervals glass marbles then Stainless steel scrubbers(for washing pots) 6 inches of each all the way to the top. this gives a very good reflux action and drops all the heavy's back down the column.

  • @jpnmatoso

    Thanks for the reply!

    I will build a homebrew like yours here in Brazil.

    One more question, the only outlet for the vapors is the same bill that leaves the distilled spirit?

  • ever hear of lead poisoning? through a radiator dumass?????!!!! do not use a radiator period works best with a drip made from copper in a sink of ice water or a 5 gal. bucket with the same! do not drink this shit or you will go blind,kidney failure,liver poisoning an die!

  • @VAMPIREBRIAN clearly YOU are the dumbass! why not have a good look at the system and the "how the cooling system works" video you know it all motherfucker!

    Have a nice day :-)

  • VAMPIREBRIAN- i dont know what country he comes from, but where im from people like him are usually considered to be 'thick as pigshit'. this is an excellent set up, brilliantly thought out, and i for one will be welcoming the knowledge from someone who clearly has his head wrapped around the (often complex) distilling process. cheers

  • Friggin awesome!!!

    

  • Is that plastic really chemical-safe? normally, I would only use stainless steel, copper or glass for stuff that comes in contact with ethanol vapour/distillate

  • How do you make sure there is no explosion-accident? This is a serious issue dealing with ethanol vapor, too easily forgotten. There was a case in my country when professional booze-maker's equipment exploded and he barely survived, burned all over very seriously. What do you dfo to remove risk?

    (I would have probably tried distillation at some point if it werent for this risk - I take fire precautions very seriously -> am still alive and have a face. )

  • I am a fan of your set-up, but i think the cooling of the water is a little over-kill. Also, what's in the containers A and B? How is your distilling container heated? are you jsut doing simple distillation or fractional? AND what did you use to ferment the ethanol? Just sugar+water+yeast?

  • @twizzlerx25

    Thanks. Fractional reflux distilation. the water that cools the reflux condencer comes out the other side at about 40 degrees c and therefore needs to be cooled back down in order to cool as it passes back through. of course you can just use a cold water tap but the the water is just wasted. A and B are just fermentation barrels of water suger and high alcohol yeast. the container was heated with an internal kettle element 2400W. I now have the "essencia express still" Awesome!

  • Hi there, the water from the radiator has no effect on the brew as it has no contact with the alcohol. Please watch the " how my cooling system works" video. I have sinse replased this whole setup and now have a stainless 25Lt still producing 96%

  • very nice distiller.

    you can talk to an eletrichian, he will make a temperature control for you, its just a termopar (eletrical termomether) and a small eletronic central.

    My father did this for my distiller, now i can put whatever temperature and the system will maintain it constant.

    see it!:::

    youtube.com/watch?v=ZRAwKwGO1e­s

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  • Hi..if i recall correctly, way back when, some people would use automotive radiators for cooling and the lead solder used in construction would cause problems. The a/c condensor you are using is all Aluminum ?

    Thanks !!

  • DUFF is the stuff! :-)

  • did anyone else notice the bottles at 1:11 said "Duff" like from the Simpsons?

  • @Chemeleon15 i did lol

  • Been distillin for a number of years. My rig gives me 2Liters of very clean 96%abv everytime. Pot for strippin/flavours and a Reflux for neutrals. Great hobby and it comes in handy for birthday/Xmas pressies...

    Nice setup SB, I cant seem to get bottles anywhere here in the UK. They allways want me to buy a batch of 1000....

    And being Scottish, well I guess its in the blood....

  • @SuperMoonshinner

    when you say "Pot for strippin/flavours and a Reflux for neutrals" just means that you use a separation collumn? if so, how have you made it?

  • dam, i admire u

  • nice

  • Dam that looks like a shelf in Tesco's lol where the whisky & Rum is lol

  • aww man i think i jizzed. Me and my mates would prob drink all that in a couple days. Three of us have already been told to stop drinking by doctor's, so i thought i'd learn how to make my own seen's as i'm not soping anytime soon muaha hahahah.

  • How do you make sure you have no methanol in your liquor???

  • @secretscot

    Methanol is prodused at the start of distillation and comes off with the "head" of the wash, this is the first 50 mls that contains the methanol, however I take off 100mls to be sure it has been removed. Use it for cleaning, its really good!

  • @scottsbutcher

    Is there any way to recognize what has methanol in it and what doesn't? Is it cloudier than the heart, or anything?

    I make wine, so I thought I'd try my hand at distilling brandy, and just want to make sure. I understand the process, the internet just seems to be lacking on any visual indicators.

  • @WeedGreenPowerRanger Both are colourless liquid. the only way to see the difference is by the density ...even so, your first drops of methanol would be blend with ethanol and tiny dops of water...real hard to know the exact quantity. If there is no cellulose in your mash, there is no way there is methanol

  • @scottsbutcher not quite right methanol will come out throughout the whole run. BUT there is more methanol in a bottle of orange juice then there is in the whole batch of mash you are distilling

  • That still has a plastic boiling pot and a plastic reflux column. I wouldn't trust plastic on a still. It also looks like you aren't making any cuts.

  • @purplemutantas

    It's all heat stabilised and specially manufactured for this job only. It was a very good still and the company is still in opperation manufacturing specialist parts out of higly developed plastis blends. The platsics used cannot leach any chemicals or be damaged by high temperatures. And what do you mean by cuts? not the termanology I know.

  • @scottsbutcher - did you purchase your still as a complete unit. and if you did, where did you purchase it. Thanks Paul in the USA

  • @scottsbutcher cuts means separation the higher alcohols and the fuesl oils from the batch if you collect the run in small bottles (say stubbies) keep them in the order the came out of the still then smell and sample (diluting to the same %) you will know what he means. the "heads" (first cut) has very estery fruity or paint thinner smell, then slowly this will change (or if you have a good reflux still with at least 1.5mtrs of reflux witch this is not, it will happen quite suddenly)

  • @HomeDistiller then you will have the middle cut or "hearts" this will smell sweet and smooth, then following that you will get the tails witch contains the fusel oils and this will have a nasty wet cardboard smell.

    just keep the middle cut and add the tails to the next batch you run and dilute and run the heads on there own makes some really rough cuts add the stuff thats not to bad into the next real run also.

  • @HomeDistiller and if you stop using those horrible turbo yeasts and use chapane yeast you will get a product you dont need to carbon filter

  • nice setup :)

  • i learn about cooling setups similiar to this in my trade school for h-vac

  • Damn nice setup mate! I would like to know more about your still though. Like what exactly you used to make it etc and heat it. I got a batch of rum fermenting as we speak ;) Still looks nice and man u are stocked up for the ice age!!

  • u will survive ice epock with this stuf man :D bless ya

  • How much did it cost to build? Where could i learn how to build that setup? thanks

  • @tawkingjames79 Google

  • Please refer to video no:2, this is just for coolind water, not for drinking.

  • does it connect to the alcohole that he consume? or is that for used the coolings? that's you must determine before you criticize

  • Yeah, It's only for cooling. It doesn't touch the alcohol at all.

  • that's what I thought.... man..people are...stu..lol

  • didn't you hear him say "air-conditioning radiator"?

  • yeah cars had 2 rad's. the main one for cooling a second one for air conditionining in between engine bay and footwell.

  • nice bro =]

  • i am just starting to make my own shine and ive heard u have to discard the first little bit becasue it contains methanol. is this true and if so how much do u throw out

  • yeh thats right, they recommend 50 ml at the start of distillation, but I take off 100ml as the methanol aint no good for you.

  • @The97tj

    Yep thats true, because the bad stuff evaporates before the alcohol evaporates. Basically the crap comes out before the alcohol and like scottsbutcher says, they recommend 50mls @ the start but 100mls would be safer.

  • Can you elaborate on the boiler and column portion of the still? It appears entirely made of plastic, which is interesting. What sort of heating element is used?

  • The boiler is a heat stabilized 25 litre duplast (by bmw) boiler with 2 x 1500w electric elements. And the column is the same. The column was filled with hard marbles top to bottom with a s/less mesh plate to hold them in place. I have replaced about 50% of these with S/less steel scrubbers at intervels throughout the column resulting in better reflux and it has lowered the running temp. I have since got the extended column at 750mm this is producing 95% alcohol. 25L wash = 5L@95% in 3 1/2 hours

  • The moonshiners in America used car AC radiator and died because the radiators had lead in them which caused the final product to have lead in them giving the person lead poisoning

  • this looks difficult. i get the whole process of doing it, but not all of this

  • Hey bro, nice set up. I'm about to fire up my reflux still for the first time and didn't wana waste water by hooking it up to a tap.

    I was thinking of a putting a water barrel up high and putting a tap on the bottom somehow so the still was gravity fed and then pumping the warm/hot water back up to it.

    But your way seems great coz it'l be less work for me haha.

    So, water pumps feed the still cooling system? Then hot water str8 to radiator cooled by fan? Then back to barrel?

    Thanks heaps.

  • Hey Otara fella! mine is a reflux column still, but since this video I have upgraded to a 750mm tall column and am now producing 92-95% spirit. the one in the video is just doing a normal wash run and was getting a consistant result at 82-85%. there are 2 pump inlets on my still, but probably only 1 on yours, so you might need a more powerfull pump. mine are 1300lt/hour ones. I have never double distilled, there is no need with this setup as its very clean and I have a very good filter, Chur!

  • Thanks heaps for the reply, I have a regular Still Spirits 25Ltr reflux still. I think it only has 1 water inlet as you were saying.

    How powerful do you think my pump would need to be? would a single 1300L/H pump not be suitable? 1300L/H seems like a lot of flow?but then again I've never used one.

    Also, where would I aquire such a radiator and how do I hook it up? Unlike some other people on here I realise its only 4 cooling purposes. Apologies for the noob questions, just very interested.

  • @OtaraPiMp

    hey bro, yeh now you mention what you have, a 1300l/hour pump will be heaps. go to pock a part in mangere and rip one out, shouldnt cost you much. just make sure when you cut the inlet/outlet pipes you leave enough room for your hoses. any Q's just ask. and yeh these people must not know much about stills to think I'm drinking shit that has been through a radiator, I'm not fuckin retarded man! so I am putting up another clip just of how the cooling system works. Chur bro!

  • You dont have to say ppl dont know about stills because of that comment, maybe we dont use radiators....

    I actually use a proper condenser cause i aint a cheap ass lol.

  • @samljer

    The condenser is the copper pipe in the spout of the still, this is where the condensing happens not in the rediator. the radiator is just to keep the cooling water from heating up.

  • How much yo got stored up there, looks impressive lol

  • @samljer

    If theres one thing a scottsman knows, its to be prepared for a big piss up at any time ;-)

  • hahaha awesome.

    I went out and purchased some copper tubes etc to make a new consenser, of my own make because my old store made one is pretty old.

    and the pot i put it on just kept falling over lol.

    may just buy another one, but i really would like to make my own :D

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  • condensin with a radiator coil is retarded. they are lead welded and can really fuck you up

  • The radiator is for cooling retard! this water passes through a sealed copper coil and cannot in any way touch the alcohol. the water is pumped through from the barrel round the sealed(copper welded) condencer coils down through the air con radiator which seperates the hot water and cools it before it goes round again.

  • anyway I could do this in america?

  • eeeekkkkkkk distilling in plastic bucket. just be careful of chemical leaching caused the ethanol in high concentrations and high temps. from one distiller to another, Still on!

    nice cooling setup i like!

    are you doing a stripping run.

  • Yeh thats what I first thought, but these stills have been heat stablized so theres no leaching. not a stripping run, just standard wash stilling.

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  • This still is the sh!t!!...I bought this one and atm making 83% spirit. Then diluted down to 30% vodka it is some kick ass stuff. 3 glasses and you are on your way!

    Beau.

  • Beau! so your happy with the still ay? I'm still modifiing my new one then I'll get a video up. ;-) you still going to copy the pumps and cooling system bro? definatly worth it ay. hows the filtering going? it can be a bit tricky. K

  • yeah mate very happy with it. Yup I am still gonna copy your cooling system should have it all running next time around. Yeah my first batch I filtered took a while but now have got it sussed. I'm using a 10L bucket and 2 filter cartridges each with their own tap. Might be looking at some copper mesh and experiment with the next few distillations. Looking forward to the vid. Beau.

  • if someone i knew had a setup like that, they'd have to remove my drunken arse by force!

    no hangover too? wow

    i wonder what would happen if you just mixed sugar+water,added yeast,and left it in a warm place like when making wine? wonder how strong it would be?