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 Hi o/

Firstly, if this is agianst the rules then I apologise and expect to be deleted.

I am trying to start a community to help people do all kinds of things for themsleves, anything from making clothes and beauty products to just fixing furnature. A place for exchanging tips and asking questions. I think this would work particually well on LJ but ( Read more... )

Apologies for this not being about distilling, but doodlemaier's account is suddenly listed as deleted. I rather liked the fellow (and met him in this community, hence the posting here), anyone know what happened to him?

All else being equal, and provided that the packing isn't too dense as to cause the column to choke, would I be correct in assuming that more packing yields purer distillate?

Hello - I'm a long-time homebrewer who's just recently started reading on the subject of distilling. I had this notion that distilling from grain alcohol would basically involve making hopless beer and then running it through the still, but my reading indicates that there are two other significant differences between beer meant for drinking and " ( Read more... )

Greetings stillmen and stillwomen!

I posted while ago on my first run. I'm now about five or six runs in. Successfully made brandy, compared it to commercial brandy (after barrel aging it in a 5gal oak barrel) and determined (A) I had been suprisingly successful (and in fact, though obviously biased, preferred my product to the retail), and (B) ( Read more... )

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I just joined.  Has anyone tried to make their own ethanol?  I wondered why it needs to be made with corn or other grain, can't it just be made with sugar, water and yeast left to ferment a couple days then distilled?  I had ideas about trying to make my own but I don't think I ever will ( Read more... )

( Yanno, for art's sake )

Have any of you, my neighbors in the U.S., applied with BATF for a license for your still and gone legit (or died trying, or tried, failed and lived to tell) with your distilling exploits? Have a story to share?