All Hail Methusulah !

by **the Doctor** » Tue Dec 17, 2013 3:12 pm

Well she is finally set up and ready to run...tomorrow will be the first run of "Methusulah" 300 liters of low wines to be turned into vapour infused Gin goodness. The last 5 or so months have been quite a ride. The culmination of much design, thought and effort. I have much to be thankful for. And tomorrow will dawn a new era for our little distillery. I am very tired but even so I bet sleep is going to be hard to come by tonight. Cheers all.
Doc

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by **JayD** » Tue Dec 17, 2013 3:15 pm

It looks great Doc, congratulations... :handgestures-thumbupleft:

by **1 2many** » Tue Dec 17, 2013 3:25 pm

^:)^ ^:)^ Absolutely brilliant coolest bit of FSD kit yet :clap: :clap:

by **tipsy** » Tue Dec 17, 2013 3:36 pm

OMG!! That's awesome.

by **Kimbo** » Tue Dec 17, 2013 4:04 pm

Holy snapping duck poop! that thing is awesome :clap: :clap: :clap: :clap: :clap:
I have never seen a better looking still, I recon there will be a lot of jealous people out there :handgestures-thumbupleft:

by **MacStill** » Tue Dec 17, 2013 5:19 pm

I think we need to drop the Carter head a fair bit, you dont want to be climbing ladders to use it. :think:

It looks like some weird metallic looking monster from the future :))

Cant wait till you run the beast, it looks amazing.

Cheers.

by **the Doctor** » Tue Dec 17, 2013 5:55 pm

I'll give you a call once I get the still balanced. I agree the head can come a bit lower... But it is really exciting ...I want to go to bed now so tomorrow comes faster.
Doc

by **dogbreath vodka** » Tue Dec 17, 2013 6:34 pm

:handgestures-thumbupleft: :handgestures-thumbupleft:

Excellent

DBV

by **Hava** » Tue Dec 17, 2013 6:47 pm

Looks like Santa has been to Doc's place already

:occasion-xmas:

:happy-jumpeveryone:

by **markus** » Tue Dec 17, 2013 7:59 pm

Looks awesome. Well done guys :handgestures-thumbupleft:

by **Woodsy71** » Tue Dec 17, 2013 8:27 pm

OMG!!!

I loooooooove.....................what Lyns done with her hair 8-)

by **SBB** » Tue Dec 17, 2013 8:30 pm

Very very nice, :x :x :x :x

by **djfrestyla** » Tue Dec 17, 2013 9:07 pm

That is really cool

by **Smbjk** » Tue Dec 17, 2013 10:27 pm

Frekin hell. That thing is awesome. Well done doc and kudos to you mac for supplying such an awesome piece of kit. Just amazing what 2 dedicated passionate people can achieve. Congrats to doc and fsd :handgestures-thumbupleft: :handgestures-thumbupleft: :handgestures-thumbupleft: :handgestures-thumbupleft: . Kind of makes my 3" look like a needle in a hay stack :laughing-rolling:

Cant wait for a video

by **Sam.** » Wed Dec 18, 2013 7:36 am

That is one incredibly piece of gear, congrats Mac and Doc :clap:

by **TBone** » Wed Dec 18, 2013 3:14 pm

That's just so amazingly awesome!

by **Vatoe** » Wed Dec 18, 2013 3:35 pm

Huge stainless steel monster. Freakin awesome looking :handgestures-thumbupleft:

by **bt1** » Wed Dec 18, 2013 4:01 pm

Doc,

given height, any feel for what heat loss is incurred or additional heat input is needed?

be interested given a 8 - 10 plate modular glasser I'm tinkering with.

bt1

by **MacStill** » Wed Dec 18, 2013 6:22 pm

I heard someone was sampling some nice gin earlier in the day, maybe a little too much distillers privilege to let us all know how it went 8-}

by **the Doctor** » Wed Dec 18, 2013 6:50 pm

MacStill wrote:I heard someone was sampling some nice gin earlier in the day, maybe a little too much distillers privilege to let us all know how it went 8-}

Very true...It all went very well. A bit of a learning experience as I took hours to heat up...But then I realised that the cable loom from 6 elements was so heavy that 3 of the plugs had come half out... I fixed that and in 5 minutes the thing was running like a thoroughbred horse on diuretics...

The Carter head was slow to get going as I had very strong reflux for the first Jar ...but I realised that the basket was absolutely cold as was the top of the head...so I ran vodka through the head to pre heat it and it all settled down. The second half of the day was really easy and all ran as expected...

I shut down at about 4 PM and will start the run tomorrow with a pre heat and throw a bit more power at it than I did this morning... I have to admit the product sure is clean and pure... I quickly hit Az and stayed there for the whole run.

I love the valve system, changing botanical baskets was just a matter of pulling the valve to vodka and exchanging the basket and then setting the valve back to Gin...Great system. I made one change to my gin recipe on the fly...I substituted Elderflower for lavender as one of my florals... I will see how this tastes tomorrow ...but I think it shoulds work well. I am absolutely knackered as I have not got a lot of sleep these last few days and we are in the busiest period of our working year...

Even though the restaurant and bar are booked for a Xmas party tomorrow ...I am going to take the day to distil... It will be good to see the faces as people do the tour...Methuselah sure is impressive... I must say it was great to be able to ring Mac for backup and support during set up and first run. Thanks for the great service mate.

Well I am off to bed...got a good book (Lonesome Dove) and a dog that won't take no for an answer.

Cheers all
Doc