Aussiedistiller, Home Distilling, Moonshine, Home Brew

Here's progress to date, in case you thought I'd been slacking.

All plates are drilled and downcomers are in, final items are:
- pipes to reflux condenser to attach
- thermometer to go in above the RC
- testing for leaks and resoldering (including the one that's got it slightly off kilter)

Sight glasses will go in later, got to get the glass first

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looking cool bananas there BC :handgestures-thumbupleft:
:text-offtopic: must get one of those boards for my shed so much better than the hanging up on the floor system I normally use

crow wrote:looking cool bananas there BC :handgestures-thumbupleft:
:text-offtopic: must get one of those boards for my shed so much better than the hanging up on the floor system I normally use

You still got to put them back crow. Otherwise you end up with a board full of shaddows, and a horozontal tool store. Status quo.

Looking good, not long now :happy-partydance:

Cool job BC,hook in mate you're nearly there :handgestures-thumbupleft: :handgestures-thumbupleft:

crow wrote:looking cool bananas there BC :handgestures-thumbupleft:
:text-offtopic: must get one of those boards for my shed so much better than the hanging up on the floor system I normally use

Dont get one they are bloody useless i put one up in my last shed for weeks was looking for the good hammer blamed everybody for taking it yep found it hanging on the board :oops:

I'm starting to get pretty excited, going to put down a TPW today in preparation for either next week or the week after. Pretty keen to have some gin made up.

The board is pretty handy, definitely some horizontal storage going on though.

Blondy,

What's the outer pipe size on your product condenser? 2.5"?

It seems larger than other designs I've seen, any reason for that choice of size?

More cooling capacity or just what you had laying around?

Hey mate, must be some funny perspective thing going on because the product condenser is 2" (4 1/2" inner tubes).

Awesome stuff mate, your killing it!!. Wont be long now!

Here she is, not quite fully tested, spotty and uncouth, but more or less complete:





The little boiler is just temporary until I can my boiler welded up.

Just needs a final water test, vapour test then a couple of cleaning runs. Got some plum brandy fermenting waiting for this little toy.

Good work mate :handgestures-thumbupleft:

You have definitely grasped this hobby by both hands :happy-partydance:

Blondies Blind Bubbler has a certain ring to it :laughing-rolling:

Looking good champ :handgestures-thumbupleft:

Plum brandy eh?
You been holding out!

The blind bubbler is looking good. :handgestures-thumbupleft:

Hey Blondy,

I don't know why you were intimidated by my work so far...you're finished!!

Looks great mate :handgestures-thumbupleft: :handgestures-thumbupleft:

Cheers guys, felt like I had to hurry it up with Brendan's 6 day challenge. Not a bad name for her, I'll probably run it a few times blind then pretty it up with some sight glasses later.

EG if you're worried about missing put on the plumb brandy it goes like this:
Stripped our tree of plumbs (about 40L)
Took the seeds out with an apple corer, worked really well
Mashed up the plumbs with a food processor
Threw the mash and seeds into 2 fermenters
Added about 5kg of sugar dissolved in water
Made up to about 23L in each, added a cup of lime to each, mixed then added bread yeast (didn't have any wine yeast)

Not much too it, we'll see how that turns out.

Brendan wrote:Hey Blondy,

I don't know why you were intimidated by my work so far...you're finished!!

Looks great mate :handgestures-thumbupleft: :handgestures-thumbupleft:

Posted at the same time, mainly at your speed ^:)^. I swear I've had to rebuild every part of this thing at least twice. Totally worth it though

Cool. 2 things though, sugar will give headaches (crow will disagree with me here) and you got free/best yeast on the plums.
Soak em in water for a few days, then run a paint stirrer through them and they mash up easy and start fermenting all on their own.

The white shit on the outside of a plum is "wild" yeast. Although its wild, its native to the fruit.

And you anit the first guy to rework a still mate, many have trod the path before you. At least you got it inside the 6 day's. :handgestures-thumbupleft:

Awesome mate!!, talk about get into it lol. Well done and congrats, cant wait to see it running :handgestures-thumbupleft: