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10-08-2012, 10:43 PM

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Doh - I totally mixed it up with Methanol (wood alcohol) which has killed thousands of people. Total brain fart

10-09-2012, 01:41 PM

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Sort of. More my boys. He welded it up. We did a "brain" on it that you can set what temp you want and it calculates the rate of temp rise and actuates a little solenoid for hi and low flame. Holds is within 2 degrees of set temp.

how many gallons was he able to make per batch?

10-09-2012, 01:51 PM

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Well we make 10-20 gallons of mash at a time. The still will hold about 5-7 gallons and will get like 3/4 of a gallon of liquor. We haven't perfected the process yet. If we did another still we would do a few things different too. We finally found what yeast works best too. Game changer