BEGINNERS ARCHIVE

BEGINNER'S GUIDE IN MOONSHINE STILL

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The Beginner's Guide to home distilling all the introductions around the title page and all of that stuff. Yes, we're going to talk about stills. Now, this is the beginner's guide, but it's also helpful to many,people out there. And we want to talk about what we're going to do, we're going to break down stills, of different materials, different styles, different types. And there are only two basic types. We're going to describe what they can do, what they will not do. And also some variations. That's the easy part. So please buckle up. Sit back. Enjoy because we...

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BEGINNER’S GUIDE ON HEATING STILLS AND SELECTING THE RIGHT ELEMENT

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This is American Copper and welcome. You can always get in touch with us. I'm gonna talk about Beginner's Guide to distilling. Now. We've already gone over and I'll talk about that in a minute. Don't worry about that. Here's what we've done up to this point. Remember we talked about what we need? What are the three pillars for distilling in fermenting? Well, we needed water.   You've seen the before sugars, and yeast. Now working towards the one we just finished. We're starting to talk about heating, because we need in order to put all this together all...

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BEGINNERS GUIDE DISTILLING PART 2

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Welcome back to part two distillers. I've got my metanol running out. So I had to sit and run an arm, I fired it up. There's nothing special about that. Just hit the button, turn it on. I've got it set at 165 and I'm at 160 5.2 166. And then it's just going to bounce around there for a little while, I'm just going to hold it. And the reason I'm going to do that is because it 145 is where your methanol comes off. nothing you can do about it. You can't hold it back. And believe it...

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CLEANING YOUR STILL, COPPER OR STAINLESS

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When it comes to cleaning stills, believe it or not, it's relatively simple. The first thing to remember is that at the very end of the run, get you some mix, dump out the pot so you don't burn yourself and rinse it out or get all the old get all that stuff out to start with before you go any further and that'll help that'll set you up for a really good clean still and maintaining a Clean steel for a long period of time. But it doesn't negate the necessity for washing the thing.  Number two is when...

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BEGINNERS GUIDE DISTILLING PART 1

Posted by Moonshiner Chuck on

Welcome back, distillers. This site is dedicated to sharing with you and unlocking the mysteries of distilling.    So we've gone through this “Beginner's Guide”, and we're at the point now, where we're going to take all that information. We're going to kind of cram it together and do one thing only,  we're going to distill.  Today we're going to run our three-gallon mighty meeting. And I'm going to describe a few things as we're going through this because again, this is the beginner's guide, and we want to make sure that we fully understand what we're doing. It's not...

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