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you need to be distilling your own hard liqour sonny..
try the [url= http://easystill.com/ ]tabletop easystill[/url]
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Shirley not legal in the UK ( unless your making perfume)?
Yup, illegal in UK without a licence.
My father in law MAY have one of those and POSSIBLY COULD
make his own spirit.
If he did, and I don't know if he does, it would
Be a very very poor whisky substitute.
Clear in colour and the purest hell of a finish on it.
Avoid at all costs.
If he did, and I'm not say in he does.
surely a lot of the quality in the finished product is gonna result from the ingredients in the mash..?
and ageing it etc..?
(disclaimer: I have no experience of distilling other than a few swigs of illegal poteen along the road.. I've never even done a guided tour of distillery)
Make your own chain degreaser?
I've tried to distill my own "clear beverage" using an old poltin still i got given off a mate quite a few years ago but it tasted foul, and i didn't want to risk blindness despite following his instructions to the letter, needless to say i gave up. It's not that hard to find a bottle of the good stuff, tiz quite a smooth drink if you take it wi a wee bit of water.
surely a lot of the quality in the finished product is gonna result from the ingredients in the mash..?
Nope, it has little to do with that actually. It's mostly down to the ageing and the barrels. Although I suppose some say being peat fired helps and what's in the water.
There's a big market in second, third and fourth hand barrels as the bourbon makers buy them from the port makers and the whiskey makers buy them from the bourbon makers etc. Why yes, I have been on the Penderyn distillery tour.
There's a big market in second, third and fourth hand barrels as the bourbon makers buy them from the port makers and the whiskey makers buy them from the bourbon makers etc
and then the beer makers go mental with them!
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the bigger distillers loan out "their" barrels to bourbon distillers and then send them to fortified wine places for flavour.
security of supply and all that, use the freezer for legal mental strengths
Takes me back to my days in Saudi, making and selling "sid"
Here you go
I was considering getting one for making essential oils 😉
But I could not be bothered
How do you prevent / control the methanol content as I thought this was a risk / problem with home distillation?
That's exactly why it's illegal. Too many people (ho ho) blind drunk.
Footflaps thats an old wifes tale to stop people making there own hooch 🙄
as for the explosion risk well if a still is vented to atmosphere whats the risk
Footflaps thats an old wifes tale to stop people making there own hooch
Sort of - there are few if any documented cases, but methanol is present in grain based fermentation and fruits which are high in pectin - this is however only in very small quantities, but it's certainly there - if it's fermented too hot, then there can be fusel oils present which 1. taste nasty and 2. might (but might not) cause worse hangovers.
Methanol is of course a lighter fraction, and as such will distill off first - so discarding the first part that comes off the still would solve the problem quite easily - in addition, the simplest way to stop methanol eating away at your optic nerve is to drink ethanol, which causes a reaction in your body to stop the methanol...and the vast majority of the booze in most home brew is ethanol.
You don't need to buy one of those; there are plenty of people doing it on a small industrial scale in the UK. I could take you to a place on the Pennine Way where it's being done with peat for fuel but I've been warned not to talk about it so I'd better not.
Is this the real purpose of Footflaps new building? So solidly constructed in case the still erupts?
in ireland the tradition was to give the first 2 pints, that come from the still, to the faeries, ie chuck em away, the first 2 pints being the ones that contained methanols and other nasties. then you got 4 pints of good stuff and then another 2 pints of rubbish (out of a 40 pint brew). we did some in science class once, it tasted great...
montylikesbeer - Member
Takes me back to my days in Saudi, making and selling "sid"
Monty, I may have been one of your customers (back in 1994). I had many an interesting experience whilst in a "sid-altered" state!