Machines | How to Make a Homemade Distillery

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1. Thanks for the video been homebrewing for years, going to try some distilling.
2. how did you find the pot and mixing bowl the same size?
3. do you happen to remember on the "size" of the mixing bowl was i.e 20 quarts, 22 qt. ect
4. Good build. I'm thinking of using a pressure cooker gasket & one of those Styrofoam coolers to hold the coil & ice.  Also, I would filter my distillate through a couple of coffee filters just to remove any contaminates etc. Keep on cookin'!
5. thx for making this
6. The crap that appears here and elsewhere is just that, crap. Yeasts, and there are many of them, convert sugars, and there are many of them, into ethanol, drinkable alcohol and into some nastieas as well.
   
   Yeasts do not feed on starch. Starches need an enzyme to convert them into useable sugar.
   
   Do not waste time. Start with fermentable sugar, preferably glucose or dextrose but supermarket sugar, sucrose, will do.
   
   There are many alcohols. Methanol is the two carbon atom alcohol which will kill you, pronto. Avoid it. Ethanol is the three carbon alcohol which we drink and, most of us anyway, enjoy. There are other four, five and plus alcohols which will give you a fucking hangover or worse. Avoid them too.
   
   Start with right sugar, sucrose, dextrose maltose or fructose, basically six carbon sugars. Use a decent yeast, supermarket dried yeast will do the job.
   
   Keep the mix sterile. That is; keep everything close to boiling point in the early stages. Put a lid on things and let it cool to blood heat before adding the yeast. Add it too soon and you will kill it. It is a living organism.
7. Anybody know if I can still run my wash in possibly 30-40 degree weather?
8. man good vid,i been using the pressure cooker method for years but i have to say the mixing bowl is a genius idea.how about a vid of ur mash methods?just for comparison lol.keep up the good work.
9. Well put brother did a fine job
10. they are called glass carboys. thanks for showing it offGod Bless
11. great info really helpful
12. Great setup. One of the best vids on this topic. Been doing my homework and this setup you have here is what im going with. Pretty sure I can build if for at or around 100 bucks. Great video.
13. Did you obtain a permit before making the distillery?
14. where do you get food grade silicone??
15. nuts
16. Its called a bung, because it is made to plug the Bung Hole on a barrel.
17. great vid
18. Could you shorten the process by attaching an airlock to the lid of the bucket at 6:00 with a filtered spigot at the bottom and just ferment it in the bucket, thus cutting out transfer to the demijohn.?
19. Silicon is not stable on temperature and very expensive.
20. i can tell your not from ky! lol good video!