New guy...
Posted: Tue Feb 13, 2018 7:25 amHey ladies and gents.
Everyone calls me Finezy as my username suggests and I am just starting to play around with home distillation.
I built a basic pot still about 18 months ago and ended up running about 20L of basic sugar wash through it and then I moved houses and it got packed up.
Just recently a work mate asked me about it as he loves a rum but due to his financial situation doesn't particularly have the coin to support his tastes, as a result i
have unpacked all my DIY gear and set it all up again and ran 10L of sugar wash again, one thing i have always struggled with is keeping the temp at 80 odd degrees at the top of the column but after playing around doing a bit more copper work, adding the basic 'ccvm' function to it made it work so much better. I can now keep the pot in a rolling boil and keep the temp at exactly 78 degrees (if i want to, Iet it goto 80-82 usually for a bit more speed).
Anyways, I have done shit loads of reading and watched all of Jessie's vids on Youtube (Still It channel) and plan on building my own keg boiler and playing around with still
heads just because I like to experiment. also plan in playing with different washes and sour mashes etc etc.
Cheers guys and look forward to interacting with everyone.
Everyone calls me Finezy as my username suggests and I am just starting to play around with home distillation.
I built a basic pot still about 18 months ago and ended up running about 20L of basic sugar wash through it and then I moved houses and it got packed up.
Just recently a work mate asked me about it as he loves a rum but due to his financial situation doesn't particularly have the coin to support his tastes, as a result i
have unpacked all my DIY gear and set it all up again and ran 10L of sugar wash again, one thing i have always struggled with is keeping the temp at 80 odd degrees at the top of the column but after playing around doing a bit more copper work, adding the basic 'ccvm' function to it made it work so much better. I can now keep the pot in a rolling boil and keep the temp at exactly 78 degrees (if i want to, Iet it goto 80-82 usually for a bit more speed).
Anyways, I have done shit loads of reading and watched all of Jessie's vids on Youtube (Still It channel) and plan on building my own keg boiler and playing around with still
heads just because I like to experiment. also plan in playing with different washes and sour mashes etc etc.
Cheers guys and look forward to interacting with everyone.