Aussiedistiller, Home Distilling, Moonshine, Home Brew

WTDist wrote:try the dump or an air con guy. you can get an old air con unit with a fan still working but no compressor. run water through instead of gas

That's good thinking, you just reminded me I have an old water chiller/fountain sitting in the shed that should have a radiator and matching fan :handgestures-thumbupleft:

To the shed! :dance:

Moved house a couple weeks ago and have just finished setting up the new shed ...
Wifey bought me 2 X 200L drums and a submersible 350w Ozito water pump for Crimbo.
So I'm currently as close to full reflux as my crap still will allow bleeding off heads of a 45L NGW run.

you have a power controller dont you? go full reflux and back off power enough so it stops if need be. I run my reflux with the power now and set my water to the speed i want

Burnt the shit out of my arm was pumping the boiler out after a run and the hose blue of sending boiling water over my arm
Off to bunnys tomorrow to get decent couplings

WTDist wrote:you have a power controller dont you?

Yeah that's what I usually do mate ... Just being a bit slack to be honest. ill collect a litre of heads and then reflux for 20mins before I start collecting in jars. Should work out well enough that way as I'm collecting at about 600ml/HR at the moment.

Aussiedownunder01 wrote:was pumping the boiler out after a run and the hose blue of sending boiling water over my arm

Ouch!! Make sure you look after the burn mate. Plenty of cold stubbies should do it!

Seems like its cooled down ok but taking your advice looks like I have to many uj shots :oops:

Sory to hear you come off second best.
What failed? The hose come off or the coupling?

Fuck the shed :angry-banghead:

rumdidlydum wrote:Sory to hear you come off second best.
What failed? The hose come off or the coupling?

Just the hose I use to pump out the boiler was keeping dunder for uj second jen it just popped off
A few new couplings are in order

Ran about 30 litres peated mac whiskey low wines on Saturday through my pot nice and slow about a 12 hr run.I used the 1/5th cut theory.Took off everything down to 75 percent and discarded (kept for cleaning runs)this was about 11 litres.I then kept as hearts from 75 percent down to 65 percent then turned the still off.Hearts kept = 3.6 lts diluted back to 65%=about 4 lts.Have high hopes for this one it seems pretty smooth already.Sitting on 1 American oak domino per litre

Zzpop wrote:Ran about 30 litres peated mac whiskey low wines on Saturday through my pot nice and slow about a 12 hr run.I used the 1/5th cut theory.Took off everything down to 75 percent and discarded (kept for cleaning runs)this was about 11 litres.I then kept as hearts from 75 percent down to 65 percent then turned the still off.Hearts kept = 3.6 lts diluted back to 65%=about 4 lts.Have high hopes for this one it seems pretty smooth already.Sitting on 1 American oak domino per litre

Haha you harsh bastard!

Aussiedownunder01 wrote:Burnt the shit out of my arm was pumping the boiler out after a run and the hose blue of sending boiling water over my arm
Off to bunnys tomorrow to get decent couplings

Filling the boiler up with some cooling water and then pumping out gets the contents to a more manageable temperature.

In the shed today? No not in the shed, still stuck in traffic or queues or a small apartment in Brisbane ~x(
No shed, no still, arrrrgh ~x(

Will be blending and oaking my Macwhiskey that has been airing for 2days. But I think I will do it inside as it may be a little to warm in the shed today :D.

The hearts tastes yummy already can't wait until it has been oaked for a couple of months

maddogpearse wrote:

Zzpop wrote:Ran about 30 litres peated mac whiskey low wines on Saturday through my pot nice and slow about a 12 hr run.I used the 1/5th cut theory.Took off everything down to 75 percent and discarded (kept for cleaning runs)this was about 11 litres.I then kept as hearts from 75 percent down to 65 percent then turned the still off.Hearts kept = 3.6 lts diluted back to 65%=about 4 lts.Have high hopes for this one it seems pretty smooth already.Sitting on 1 American oak domino per litre

Haha you harsh bastard!

:text-+1: :text-lol: no tails lol


doing my cuts today on my first ever run of CFW (my version of gen 5's/6) through the 2" bubbler. Will be interesting. smooth off the still in hearts so i got high hopes. keeping last heads jar and first tails jar for some body and ill let it air while aging to evaporate the heads and keep flavour :handgestures-thumbupleft:

what time does CFW/WB need to start tasting good on oak?

What a great thread. Only read the 1st few pages then skipped to the end. Your post's are important to us, so I will get back to them shortly. :P I promise!

So I'm in trouble because of 8 weeks ago, I jack hammered out 2 pillars under the house and jack hammered a meter odd down to make a man cave.
I jammed in 8 new beams, but should have researched a bit better and used blue beams when red beams would have been sturdier. So there was a bit of bounce.
I made some wedges and all's good, but plan to rectify with extra beams in the future.
The wife is convinced the house is going to collapse. She's not happy at all. But hey, I have a man cave! :D

So that's where my new still and gear is working away. I spent the day sorting tools and boxes, signing up here and watching my wash bubble. Great day all round.
I plan to poor a cement floor and make it all real pretty over the next year.

Not having the biggest house and no garage, I'm as happy as a monkey with a peanut machine. It really is the little things that make you happy. I even sat there for a bit and smiled looking around.
Note to self, take Morteen tomorrow! Damn Mossies.

Dejay wrote:What a great thread. Only read the 1st few pages then skipped to the end. Your post's are important to us, so I will get back to them shortly. :P I promise!

So I'm in trouble because of 8 weeks ago, I jack hammered out 2 pillars under the house and jack hammered a meter odd down to make a man cave.
I jammed in 8 new beams, but should have researched a bit better and used blue beams when red beams would have been sturdier. So there was a bit of bounce.
I made some wedges and all's good, but plan to rectify with extra beams in the future.
The wife is convinced the house is going to collapse. She's not happy at all. But hey, I have a man cave! :D

So that's where my new still and gear is working away. I spent the day sorting tools and boxes, signing up here and watching my wash bubble. Great day all round.
I plan to poor a cement floor and make it all real pretty over the next year.

Not having the biggest house and no garage, I'm as happy as a monkey with a peanut machine. It really is the little things that make you happy. I even sat there for a bit and smiled looking around.
Note to self, take Morteen tomorrow! Damn Mossies.

Well done :handgestures-thumbupleft: :handgestures-thumbupleft: don't worry about the house falling down, let swmbo do the worrying :laughing-rolling: You've got your man cave and that's the important bit :-D :-D

What is the drainage like where you dug out .

well lads i got the plumbing done today, all i need to fire up for the water test is a connector to take the pump output to 19mm.... bunnings first thing tomorrow.

the outdoor bit...



inside, the gas burner is currently out, as is the corrugated heat shielding.... just till the water tests are done then im good to go!!

:banana-dance: :banana-dance: :banana-dreads: :banana-dance: :banana-dance:





starting to get a bit excited!!

:D

Looking good Red :handgestures-thumbupleft: ^:)^