Professor Green wrote:Welcome Phil.
:text-+1: on hillzbilly's advice. Do your research before you purchase anything and you'll avoid costly mistakes others have made before you and you'll end up with the best still for your purposes.
Some things to consider are:
- Budget.
- How much time and room you have to devote to making spirits.
- How handy you are with tools - this will determine whether you can make your own still or whether you are limited to something off the shelf
- What kind of spirits you ultimately want to make
One other thing to consider since you mentioned you're looking at making Vodka and Gin is, for vodka you'll need a reflux still and for gin, depending on what method you want to use, you'll need either a pot still or reflux still you can remove the packing from, or to start out with a modular still that you can configure for whatever spirit you're making at the time.
Cheers,
Prof. Green.
Thanks for the welcome.
The whiskies from Albany were a surprise, did a couple of weeks in Tassie in November and was not expecting a better drop to be made in WA. The other half got me a bottle of Darkest Winter for my 50th. Spoilt!
Budget, decent - the missus is a gin lover. She did Giniversity with me, so doing more because we want to, not to save dollars. Though it will likely pay for itself at our normal rate of consumption.
Time, that’s an issue usually home about sixish and up at five, so asleep by ten. Not a lot of time at night. So really only weekends for long runs. Space well I have a decent deck and a spare bathroom.
After reading about the T500 on here I will give 5Star a call as the 2” BoKa could be a good option.
Definitely heavy on the Gin. I like a good whisky when in the mood, but not a fan of some of the nasties I have tried, and I reckon I will be kissing a lot of frogs. So rather buy a setup to suit Gin making.
Tools, well not super great tbh. Woodwork ok, but never welded or did any metalwork.