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Just wanted to chuck something up, been distilling for about half a year now and am loving the craft. I may have purchased a Turbo500 still, and i know there are a lot of bad things said about them, I was happy with the way it performed considering i dont mind drinking vodka. I had a setup with a 12v aquarium pump set up with a volt regulator and digital display so instead of using the needle valve to control the water flow i could get very accurate temp control with the voltage to the pump.
Since the first few batches of birdwatchers and TFFV, that went very well, i wanted to get more flavour through.
I have since raided the local plumbers scrap heap and soldered up (very badly) a good column and good size lie berg. Then attached to the T500 boiler head with the attachment from 5star supplies. had a bit of trouble with the ferrules as they were exactly the same size (inside diameter and out) as the 2" copper pipe. I think this was due to the K style copper piping (quiet old and thick walled) I got around this by annealing the end of the copper tubing, grinding the ferrules edge inwards (coning i call it) and banging it in with a wood block.
Neatened everything up that water in from the false wall in shed then exits through the side of shed and have a hose attachment to reuse the water on the garden.
I am currently about to do my spirit run on 2x25L gen 3 of nutrigrain wash. gen 2 tasting great after a couple of weeks with oak chips soaked.
After gen 3 i saved 10L of backset and froze for future gens. But used the carryover yeast starter for making "all grain" whisky from coopers LME.
Used 4 cans of amber LME, 5L backset from gen3 nutri and topped up with water to 25L in fermeter (1.073)
same thing with 4 cans of light LME...Going to strip them back and spirit run separate, then maybe blend afterwards.
About to start altering my still for a shotgun i've nearly finished, just thinking about water conservation :)
happy stilling everyone. keep it up
Gday from SA
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Gday from SA
by mugaway » Tue Jan 28, 2020 7:01 pm
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Re: Gday from SA
by Doubleuj » Tue Jan 28, 2020 7:57 pm
Nice pot still mate, welcome to the forum :handgestures-thumbupleft:
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Re: Gday from SA
by dans.brew » Tue Jan 28, 2020 8:50 pm
Gday mugaway and welcome!
You've achieved quite a bit in 6 months with all the mods to your gear... nice stuff. :handgestures-thumbupleft:
Sure is a lot of fun hunting through a scrappy or a plumbers offcuts pile for treasures.
You've achieved quite a bit in 6 months with all the mods to your gear... nice stuff. :handgestures-thumbupleft:
Sure is a lot of fun hunting through a scrappy or a plumbers offcuts pile for treasures.
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Re: Gday from SA
by db1979 » Tue Jan 28, 2020 9:03 pm
Welcome mate :greetings-waveyellow:
Looking forward to your bubbler build :))
Looking forward to your bubbler build :))
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Re: Gday from SA
by Sam. » Tue Jan 28, 2020 9:07 pm
Welcome here mate, looks like your off to an excellent start :handgestures-thumbupleft:
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Re: Gday from SA
by woodduck » Wed Jan 29, 2020 6:54 am
Welcome mate :greetings-waveyellow:
Your all over it by the looks :handgestures-thumbupleft:
Your all over it by the looks :handgestures-thumbupleft:
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Re: Gday from SA
by Professor Green » Wed Jan 29, 2020 5:50 pm
Welcome to AD mugaway.
Cheers,
Prof. Green.
Cheers,
Prof. Green.
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Re: Gday from SA
by RC Al » Wed Jan 29, 2020 5:51 pm
Welcome mate
Was just talking with someone about the copper/ferrule thing, no oz standard copper will fit any of the commercial ferrules without expanding, unfortunately they are all aimed at being butt welded to SS pipe, on a side note, they will fit USA pipe which is measured by the inside diameter.
Well done on getting over that hurdle :handgestures-thumbupleft:
Was just talking with someone about the copper/ferrule thing, no oz standard copper will fit any of the commercial ferrules without expanding, unfortunately they are all aimed at being butt welded to SS pipe, on a side note, they will fit USA pipe which is measured by the inside diameter.
Well done on getting over that hurdle :handgestures-thumbupleft:
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