Aussiedistiller, Home Distilling, Moonshine, Home Brew

Hey gents,

In the next few months I'm going to order an FSD 4" pot still with 1 or two bubbler sections. I'll gradually make my way up to 5-6 bubbler sections. Anyway, I'm going to need a decent size boiler and although I'd love the 60L FSD boiler, I can't fork out that much money. I know most people use old beer kegs as boilers, but where can they be acquired? I'm not going to nick one from a pub, like I know a lot of people do. Does anyone know of a legitimate way of getting one? I don't really want to buy one off gumtree, because chances are that it's been stolen and I don't want to give my money to a criminal...

Is there any other 50L or aroundabouts sized boilers that people use or can be easily made for moderately cheap (under a couple of hundred preferably). Any advice is greatly appreciated!

Thanks gentlemen.

You can buy them legit through kegking :handgestures-thumbupleft:

http://www.kegking.com.au/Kegs.html

If you or any if your mates are coming near Melbourne I will give you one

Aussiedownunder01 wrote:If you or any if your mates are coming near Melbourne I will give you one

I wish! I'm up at Lismore... a long ways away.

sam_and_liv wrote:You can buy them legit through kegking :handgestures-thumbupleft:

http://www.kegking.com.au/Kegs.html

Yep, I'll probably get mine off there in the next few weeks!


What's the deal with polishing them up? How shmick can one make a darn beer keg look? I love shiny things.

electropolishing, get it welded first though :handgestures-thumbupleft:

Godzilla2456 wrote:What's the deal with polishing them up? How shmick can one make a darn beer keg look? I love shiny things.

I reckon you're better off putting a heat shroud around it anyway to make it more efficient, and get up to temp quicker etc. So you'd never see it anyway...well, that's what I do :-D

Tried the tip shop at Ballina or Lismore?
Not sure if any of the scrappys up there sell to the public (I moved away in 05), might be worth going to have a check

sp0rk wrote:Tried the tip shop at Ballina or Lismore?
Not sure if any of the scrappys up there sell to the public (I moved away in 05), might be worth going to have a check

Didn't even cross my mind to check at a dump shop. I'll give it a crack when I get some spare time and will report back here with my findings.