G’day brewing folks.
I’ve been dicking around with a T500 flux and pot for a year and a half and I’m sick of it. Too slow and average product (can’t get rid of that subtle sulphuric background flavour). Good to learn on though.
My old man has a wholesale scrap metal business so has tonnes of copper pipe. I’m sure there would be some good bits in there. So, I’m thinking seriously about taking the Pepsi challenge and to have a crack at building something to make GIN(only). I was thinking of a four inch number as I have a maximum ceiling height of 3.3m in my shed plus I do other stuff in there and don’t have heaps of room for fermenting.
I still haven’t quite figured out what’s the difference (apart from sex appeal) between the two options...
So the questions for a newbie are:
- should I go for a bubble cap
- should I go for a glasser
- do you think I could build it for a $1500 + boiler or so if I get the pipe for free?
- keen to ensure I don’t go thru the process to only find I should have done it differently twelve months later. Is there a build here that’s the ducks nuts? They all look pretty good to me but hard for a newbie to work out what’s what.
-to maximise flavour, would it be better to buy the Carter head set up and run that rig for the final flavouring run?
I intend to buy Macs milk can of joy with all the bits so I guess that’s my starting point.
Any tips would be appreciated.