For the people watching, Data points are crucial to distilling. Before you distill check your specific gravity with a HYDROMETER before you add your yeast and take note. Your starting gravity should ideally be anywhere from 1.06 to as high as 1.14 depending on what you are making. After a few days of fermentation check it again. The goal is to hopefully get it down to 1.0 which means the yeast has eaten all of the available sugars and the mash is the same density as water (1.0). Fermentation should take 1 to 2 weeks. If you read 1.14 in the beginning and you let it go down to 1.0 then you know you have approx 13% ABV in your mash and it is ready to run. You will get slightly less than that what matters is get the data points and you will know its ready to run. The hydrometer is for measuring specific gravity (density of the mash) and a proof and tralle alcometer will measure the percentage of alcohol of your run. Be Safe! Study up! watch lots of videos and ask questions if you aren't exactly sure what you are doing you aren't ready yet!. Its a great hobby and community. Safety is #1!
A few things to consider, I think you’re possibly losing some alcohol out the condenser if it’s boiling too hard, you want to run it slow and steady 66c to 77c is the metho 77c to 82c is ethanol (the one you want) 82c and above will bring over fusil oil and it’s flavours, if you run too hard you will taste it and the proof will drop Edit: seems I should have watched before commenting lol
only pure methanol and ethanol boil at those temps, when you add everything into one mixture it becomes a mess. it starts at around 90 and ends close to 100. that's why i always double distill to make that boiling range wider to collect purer chemicals
@@LordLarryWho Yes, that's true...for cooking meals etc. Distilling alcohol gives off volatile vapours. Those vapours contained in a room where there's a naked flame can give you a big KABOOM. If you watch the TV show Moonshiners, they use propane...OUTDOORS. There is an episode where they have 8 huge submarine stills indoors. They used oil burners instead of propane. Like they said, "Propane + Indoors = KABOOM".
It seems as though your still temp is a bit high. Although looking at the stream it looks good, seems weird to me. Is that (still head temp) normal for your setup?
I posted a few distillation videos on another channel of mine because I knew that it would bait subscribers. I tell ya, nothing brings out the RUclips educated experts quite like distillation videos do.
Turn that locomotive down, run s. Like a train from 1800s, kind of need to do some basic distalation research and things will become more manageable. Dont burn the house down. .
you should really stop makin moonshine vids and embarrassing yourself there's too much screwed up about your whole stillbuild, your knowledge, and your process to even go into detail about. we can't quit laughin.
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oooh, I like your burner! been thinking of replacing mine
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For the people watching, Data points are crucial to distilling. Before you distill check your specific gravity with a HYDROMETER before you add your yeast and take note. Your starting gravity should ideally be anywhere from 1.06 to as high as 1.14 depending on what you are making. After a few days of fermentation check it again. The goal is to hopefully get it down to 1.0 which means the yeast has eaten all of the available sugars and the mash is the same density as water (1.0). Fermentation should take 1 to 2 weeks. If you read 1.14 in the beginning and you let it go down to 1.0 then you know you have approx 13% ABV in your mash and it is ready to run. You will get slightly less than that what matters is get the data points and you will know its ready to run. The hydrometer is for measuring specific gravity (density of the mash) and a proof and tralle alcometer will measure the percentage of alcohol of your run. Be Safe! Study up! watch lots of videos and ask questions if you aren't exactly sure what you are doing you aren't ready yet!. Its a great hobby and community. Safety is #1!
I think the noise you’re hearing from the condenser is because the water isn’t cold enough being pumped through it.
or the flow rate is too low.
There like a suction noise at the drain line on the condenser. I add some copper mesh reduce the suction noise.
A few things to consider, I think you’re possibly losing some alcohol out the condenser if it’s boiling too hard, you want to run it slow and steady
66c to 77c is the metho 77c to 82c is ethanol (the one you want) 82c and above will bring over fusil oil and it’s flavours, if you run too hard you will taste it and the proof will drop
Edit: seems I should have watched before commenting lol
only pure methanol and ethanol boil at those temps, when you add everything into one mixture it becomes a mess. it starts at around 90 and ends close to 100. that's why i always double distill to make that boiling range wider to collect purer chemicals
Can’t use in Hydrometer
if you had apple juice or any sugar to it won’t read right
Propane burner indoors to distill alcohol????
No different than a propane powered stove in a camper or most rural homes.
@@LordLarryWho Yes, that's true...for cooking meals etc.
Distilling alcohol gives off volatile vapours.
Those vapours contained in a room where there's a naked flame can give you a big KABOOM.
If you watch the TV show Moonshiners, they use propane...OUTDOORS.
There is an episode where they have 8 huge submarine stills indoors.
They used oil burners instead of propane.
Like they said, "Propane + Indoors = KABOOM".
@@LordLarryWho completely different, no alcoholic vapour for one thing, you know naked flame alcohol vapour baad
we have a couple of blow outs, one that took out a railway arch, lack of ventilation, naked flame and inattention, boom, hardly unpredictable
Use a fish tank heater to keep your ferment stable.
It seems as though your still temp is a bit high. Although looking at the stream it looks good, seems weird to me. Is that (still head temp) normal for your setup?
Nevermind, I see you addressed that later in the video.
Keeper cold and you should allways be around 60 , you seem to be good at this. I have some content on here you might like ...
I posted a few distillation videos on another channel of mine because I knew that it would bait subscribers. I tell ya, nothing brings out the RUclips educated experts quite like distillation videos do.
? does your condenser work looks way 2 small
Turn that locomotive down, run s. Like a train from 1800s, kind of need to do some basic distalation research and things will become more manageable. Dont burn the house down. .
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you should really stop makin moonshine vids and embarrassing yourself there's too much screwed up about your whole stillbuild, your knowledge, and your process to even go into detail about. we can't quit laughin.
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awww shucks, this is why moonshining is illegal