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  • Nice addition to your library.

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  • That is a great collection! Don't forget about Distillers Guide to Rum too.

  • Very nice. Also, The Compleat Distiller by Nixon and McCaw.

  • The 2 center books are great additions to any libray,not slighting any book as a addition,but those 2 have been read and used the most in my collection

    It is what you make it!

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    @FloridaCracker said: All at once?

    I've still got a month of this deployment left. I'm wondering if I should of got more.

  • ALT Whiskeys, what an amazing book

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    For anyone thinking about buying Copper packing from Amphora - this is what a 3lb block looks like.
    This should keep me going a year or 3.

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  • You got quality mesh right there, I got mine back in 2010 from memory and I've seen a lot of mesh since but this is still the best.

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    I used to retail it and got it by the crate, but the Amphora stuff is the best i ever saw or stocked.

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  • Nice. I need to get me some more

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  • Ha. Yours came before mine.

    I couldn't help but get one after that gin class either... any broken pieces?

  • Mine arrived with a broken graham condenser

  • Nope, and Mine was used on eBay, from Louisville, bought on the drive home from Louisville, LOL.... I got it for $300 shipped... the seller packed it very, very well in mostly the original packing, the condenser was in special packing... but not a grahm, just a glass leibig... when the UPS guy delivered, I shook it really hard and heard nothing and smiled at the driver and said "sounds good, thanks!" I ran off a little over 2.5gal of nuetral the other night, mixed with water to get 5 gal of 100proof, wrote it in my logbook, and put a tag on it saying 'removed from bond for research and development"

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    @CothermanDistilling said:

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    I see stinky feet in your future...

    You know you can do well controlled 1L pilot batches with a GB4, right?

    I'm more like I am now than I was before.

  • True, but you cannot do the full range of boiler charge from 100 proof on down with a large boiler.... With this, you get the extraction from a pot still through the basket over the entire range, vs just, for example, 190 proof alcohol vapor going through your botanicals...

    maybe do a water vapor vs an ethanol vapor through the GB4 to see the differences?

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    I charge my boiler with 600mL of azeotrope diluted to 20% and run it through the Carter head like a pot still. First runnings are ~85%. I collect down to ~20%. Aggregate = 950mL @ ~55%. Dump ~200mL of (very weak in flavor and undetectable alcohol) hydrosol out of the bottom of the Carter head via the 3/4" ball valve there.

    Works really well.

    Half barrel sanke keg boiler (unmodified except spear removed), plateless torpedo mounted on keg, GB4 mounted on torpedo, condenser on GB4. No parrot because the volumes are too small. Fired with a Bayou Classic propane burner, so no worries about keeping an electric element covered.

    Azeotrope base spirit is 3X with no cuts needed for infusion run.

    Going to try putting a bubble plate in the torpedo on the next run to see if copper contact makes a difference.

    I'm more like I am now than I was before.

  • ahhh... my fire marshal would shut me down if I lit a propane burner in my building.... and need several gallons for electric to work on my sankey...

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    The joy of being an amateur... ("...nudge, nudge, know what I mean, ay?")

    I'm more like I am now than I was before.

  • @Kapea said: The joy of being an amateur artisan... ("...nudge, nudge, know what I mean, ay?")

    FTFY

    FixedThatForYouPunkin

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  • Mucho mahalos!

    I'm more like I am now than I was before.

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