G'day all,
I'm an AG beer brewer from way back and I've always been curious about about home distilling but thought it was too complicated.
A renewed bout of curiosity hit me recently and I started researching again. I was looking at pot stills and bokakobs.
I'm mostly into rum, bourbon and scotch and I saw an idea for a pot still based on the top end of a bokakob column that I could run intially for rum and if things work out/the bug really bites I can add a packed column inline for reflux.
I recently rigged up this rims system for beer
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1K7O-GjeYg5bh0YQjPayiI7xFxMMIPOvM
and after my researching I realised I could shut off the valves to the pump, seal the column on top and there's my still!
So, I made this double coil from some gas line that was removed from an old camper I had(approx 6mm ID 8mm OD) but I don't know if this would be enough to condense a short 3 inch pot column. https://drive.google.com/open?id=13doav-Zj2YWWjw2v4XrPfOIW6VmvALYH
The coil itself is about 70mm wide so it will fit in a 3 inch column, but it's only 110mm tall (all the copper I had).
Can anyone give me some advice as to whether this would be enough to cope with a 3 inch column?
Cheers,
Jono.