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Brute:
If you are thinking of the keg for a still, keep in mind you have to clean the insides of the leftover 'stuff'. Kegs are bad for that unless you weld in an opening that can seal. Water boils at over 200, alcohol 175 or so. The PID would be great for that. Sounds like you want to go big time with the size! I always ran my stuff twice to get it up to 180 or more. The first stuff out is the strongest. The easy way to test it is lighting it on fire. When it gets down to around 80 the flame changes and/or you can not light it. Not worth going more. The flow will be less as well. I liked the 5 gal one as it could be stored out of the way, would do a 3 gal batch in about 45 minutes. I am talking 3 gal in. The out is whatever percentage you start with/stop at. Not much out! The higher content going in, the more you get out. At one time I had quite a collection of notes and recipes. Gave it all away.
Motorrad:
--- Quote from: Brute on October 12, 2012, 05:57:25 PM ---If you are thinking of the keg for a still, keep in mind you have to clean the insides of the leftover 'stuff'. Kegs are bad for that unless you weld in an opening that can seal. Water boils at over 200, alcohol 175 or so. The PID would be great for that. Sounds like you want to go big time with the size! I always ran my stuff twice to get it up to 180 or more. The first stuff out is the strongest. The easy way to test it is lighting it on fire. When it gets down to around 80 the flame changes and/or you can not light it. Not worth going more. The flow will be less as well. I liked the 5 gal one as it could be stored out of the way, would do a 3 gal batch in about 45 minutes. I am talking 3 gal in. The out is whatever percentage you start with/stop at. Not much out! The higher content going in, the more you get out. At one time I had quite a collection of notes and recipes. Gave it all away.
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I have like 5 15gal sanke kegs around.. and 2 pony kegs (7gal?)
the colum im building will attach to either. so I can run BIG 15gal batch, or small 5gal batch. a nice option. and when I say 5gal run.. you could get away with a 3gal run with my electric element placement.
Im very familiar with the HEads, hearts and tails.. (heads, first out, is full of acetone, etc.. that is better for cleaing parts, than drinkign)
oh.. I have full sized keg washers... so no need to worry about cleaning them. (that and BLC (beer line cleaner) works wonders.
Brute:
Must be the season! Guy at work was quite interested to do some distilling as well.
Motorrad:
--- Quote from: Brute on October 18, 2012, 06:55:38 PM ---Must be the season! Guy at work was quite interested to do some distilling as well.
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Was working on a 6' high Bokakob / vaper management still..
But copper etc prices are so high.. that I decided to go another route... Since my cost was getting so close to what I actually wanted.
a Bubble plate still..
specifically a Stilldragon...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2UaQmV9Bz4
Motorrad:
stumbled across some pictures of my Old Kegorator.
Still have the tap head off it... need to put it back together again.. lots of fuzzy memorys with that thing.
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