Aussiedistiller, Home Distilling, Moonshine, Home Brew

Hi there,

My name is Slide.

I'm looking at moving from home brew beer into home distilling, and I have already spent a number of hours reading the information available here on this forum. Thanks for all the info so far, and I hope you'll be forgiving of my newbie questions going forward - I promise to search first!

:)

Hi slide welcome to the forum :handgestures-thumbupleft:

Welcome slide :greetings-waveyellow:
Your beer brewing background should come in handy.
Whats the drink of choice you would like to make?

Welcome Slide,
you picked the right place to learn, tons of info and a great bunch of people.

Welcome to AD Slide.

What kind of spirits are you looking to make?

Cheers,
Prof. Green.

Hi mate :greetings-waveyellow: welcome to the forum

Welcome here :handgestures-thumbupleft:

dans.brew wrote:Welcome slide :greetings-waveyellow:
Your beer brewing background should come in handy.
Whats the drink of choice you would like to make?

I am thinking I'd like to get something close to an Irish Whisky like Jamesons. However am leaning towards a reflux still to start with, and thinking I'll see how close I can get using essences and/or oak chips and the like.

Have done a fair bit of reading already and think I am right to skip the Turbo products, though I was initially impressed by their youtube videos. Leaning towards doing a TPW. :handgestures-thumbupleft:

If you want brown spirits grab a pot especially if you have all grain beer experience. I reckon you will be disappointed with essences.. :handgestures-thumbupleft:

bluc wrote:If you want brown spirits grab a pot especially if you have all grain beer experience. I reckon you will be disappointed with essences.. :handgestures-thumbupleft:

Haven't done all grain brewing yet. Just kits and bits with extra hop boils etc.

The purchase of equipment will give me a boiler that I can use for home brew as well, probably look at doing some brew in a bag type recipes.

Any thoughts on this unit? I've searched and found a thread about the Pot Still version, but not much mention of the Reflux AlcoEngine still.
https://www.kegland.com.au/35l-alcoengi ... undle.html

bluc wrote:If you want brown spirits grab a pot especially if you have all grain beer experience. I reckon you will be disappointed with essences.. :handgestures-thumbupleft:

I totally agree with bluc... i started with a still very similar to this one and outgrew it very quickly. For me the essences weren't really doing it. Dont get me wrong, they make a nice drink some of them but not the orthentic flavour i was chasing.
If you are at all handy with your hands a simple pot isn't to complex to make. It would open a whole new demention to your spirit flavour wise. :handgestures-thumbupleft: